Ericsson closes down the modems in Lund – UNT

Ericsson closes down the modems in Lund – UNT

Total impact Ericsson’s decision to close down the modem manufacture 1600 services in 14 countries. And it will lead to layoffs, according to CEO Hans Vestberg.

I have to be honest with it. There will be employees who will be leaving Ericsson in and with this decision. How many exactly is difficult to say, said Vestberg.

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Most affected in Sweden are today employed in Lund, but Vestberg announced while a new research and developments in radio technology in just Lund. For the 500 people will be recruited.

-Samtidigt we will begin discussions on all the other places around the world, with the union, about how this should be done, he says.

In addition to the 656 employees in Lund is also affected 150 consultants of the plans, according to Lars-Ake Ekdahl, Swedish Engineers’ president at Ericsson in Lund.

-Operations formed in August 2013 and it was said to be an effort that would be evaluated after 18 to 24 months. But now it has only been 13 months, so mortified to put down is obviously very shocking. People have reacted with dismay, saying Ekdahl.

“Vastly hard”

At nine o’clock in the morning were informed staff.

-People have worked tremendously hard and we have met all requirements and objectives. This is so unexpected, says Lars-Ake Ekdahl.

Hans Vestberg believes the market has gone down, it’s stiff competition. There are fewer and fewer smart phone manufacturers who purchase the modem separately, they buy it together with the processor. And we have no CPU, we have just a modem, said Vestberg.

-On top of it is the pace of development on the technology fast, so it requires more and more investment in research and development. It will be difficult to succeed with the new modems in the future. Instead, we decided to focus more on the core business, where we are strongest, and there is wireless technology, said Vestberg.

Sony cuts down

The technology sector in Lund risk another hard kind, since Sony earlier this week unveiled a savings proposals at every seventh employee of the mobile division. In Lund 2000 working closer with mobile development, but how employees are affected is unclear.

It can not be said. Now we do the analysis based in our new plan. Previously, we had a growth strategy, now it’s more a stability and profitability strategy, says Sony Mobile Kajsa Petersson to the news service Rapidus.