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Ericsson opens 20,000 square meter Global ICT Center in Sweden to drive innovation

Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) has officially inaugurated its Global Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Center in Rosersberg, Sweden. The purpose-built, highly scalable and sustainable facility reflects Ericsson’s ongoing commitment to R&D investment both in Sweden and globally. The center also represents an important step in the company’s ongoing ICT transformation journey. The Rosersberg site, which covers 20,000 square meters, is the first purpose-built Ericsson Global ICT Center to be inaugurated in Sweden. It follows the opening of the Global ICT Center in Linköping, Sweden in September 2014, which was built adjacent to an existing Ericsson facility. In addition to the two facilities in Sweden, Ericsson will open a Global ICT Center in Montreal, Canada in the second quarter of 2016. The Global ICT Centers allow Ericsson to emulate an operator’s mobile network and to test new solutions as if they were running on a live network. In the near future, Ericsson’s customers will be able to connect remotely for interoperability testing, trials, early access Latest customer marks major milestone for the innovative indoor small cell solution, commercially shipping since the fourth quarter in 2014 - 44 percent in Europe, Middle East & Africa, 39 percent of Radio Dot System operators are in Asia Pacific Region,17 percent in North and South America 77 percent of Radio Dot Systems have gone live with LTE - almost 10 percent of those support dual-mode LTE and WCDMA on the same Dots. About 90 percent of our time is spent indoors. However, results from an Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) ConsumerLab survey reveal that only three in 10 smartphone users find indoor voice quality, coverage and reliability to be good. The challenge will be exacerbated by the 11 times growth in smartphone traffic forecast from 2015 to 2021, with around 90 percent of mobile data traffic expected to come from smartphones by the end of 2021. To improve indoor app coverage for mobile consumer and business customers, leading operators around the world have adopted the Ericsson Radio Dot System, an innovative indoor small cell solution commercially introduced in the last quarter of 2014. Recently, Sichuan Mobile, the largest mobile communications operator in western China, became the 100th mobile operator worldwide to adopt the Ericsson Dot System. The Radio Dot System is designed to enable mobile operators

and innovation on new offerings from any location. These services will be provided through ten Business-Near Centers, to be announced in 2016, which are connected to the Global ICT Centers. The Global ICT Centers are set to be powered by Ericsson’s cloud solutions and will host a substantial part of the company’s product portfolio. As a result of this extensive rationalization and virtualization effort, Ericsson will be able to shorten innovation cycles and increase global collaboration while also reducing R&D costs. Currently, the company’s test environments are spread across more than 50 locations worldwide. Ericsson’s Global ICT Centers are an important step toward achieving the company’s sustainability goals. The cutting-edge design of the centers, combined with modular and scalable construction, secures efficient use of energy and space. Ericsson estimates, when all three Global ICT Centers are in operation, it will result in a 40% reduction in energy usage compared to 2012 test lab energy baseline.

100 operators adopt Ericsson Radio Dot System to improve indoor app coverage

to deliver consistently high-performance voice and data coverage and capacity in the broadest range of buildings. The system features the iconic Radio Dot, a sleek, ceiling-mounted antenna element that provides high-performance app coverage throughout the building and seamless mobility with the outdoor mobile network. The system is remote software- upgradable, with recent commercial software upgrades, Networks Software 16A, supporting up to 600Mbps peak rates using LTE-Advanced Carrier Aggregation, while reducing power consumption of the already-energy-efficient system. Ericsson Radio Dot System supports the same software as the operator’s outdoor macrocell network, ensuring a seamless user experience and faster time to market for new performance and efficiency-enhancing capabilities.

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