Ericsson seals TeliaSonera 4G deal

is this going to create new jobs in Sweden?

Huawei is a chinese company bankrolled by the Chinese government to under-cut competition by selling products at low prices with the aim of gaining market share.

No jobs will be created, because they will ship low-wage chinese to do the job.

@'voiceofreason?

You know so much about huawei and chinese government .... wow .. are you a voice of reason and the informed or a loud voice of paranoia, racism, fear, noll, ... idiocy?

and the off springs of those red necks who took the sledge hammer and smashed the japanese corollas back in the 60s in the US?

are you also the last buyer of a GM car before it went bankrupt ... because it was selling crap, went bankrupt and is now bankrolled by the Obama government with the aim of saving face and gaining market share by subsidizing the cars under the clunker program?

ha ha ... voice of reason...my foot...

@voiceofreason

Jobs will be created. The deal was signed with Ericsson, both in Sweden and Norway. Huwawei has been left as backup.

Whenever such deals are signed, Ericsson hires consultants and also people for running field operations.

Its very nice to hear the story of ericsson , Now in true sense it will create a competition of best 4G services Huwaei & ericsson and customers choose the service what has highest throughput practically

@witsltd

Ericsson pretty much have a complete halt on hiring any staff or consultants until further notice. People will be moved internally to support this new project.

Very positive news. Sweden needs more jobs as there is to much being outsourced or moved to either China or India. i know that labour in Sweden is expensive, but that is because of our standard of living. I think that living costs in the other countries are far lower then in Sweden, hence they can pay lower wages. And they dont really have unions ensuring a good deal either. But give them time, the way things are going with companies being short sighted going for the cheap labour, in the never ending chase of making larger profits.

We have a saying though, if you pay peanuts you get monkeys. And this is o so true. I work for the largest IT provider in the world who last year outsourced their customer services to Bangalore, India. And ever since thing have gone from bad to worse, Where normally we had CS in every country speaking the lingo and understanding the rules and regulations, now the whole of Europe has to deal with India if they have issues. So where first there were say 50 people in Europe dealing with the local customers, now there is a team of 150 in Bangalore for even less money! O thats good, more people can do so much more work. WRONG!! they still dont know what to do after been in the job for a whole year. But as my company is owned by Americans, they just want to see how cost are being reduced.

So I am very pleased to see that Ericsson etc has got this contract. Hopefully the Nordics are the first to realise that in order to ensure a countries financial stability is to ensure there is always work. This to get money in for taxes, which on its turn is needed for state pensions, hospitals, schools etc. If more and more companies leave the Nordics to set up shop in the far east, then all that profit/ wages will go to those countries and in the end we will end up with large unemployment and no social security net. The signs are on the wall, profit is very nice but less profit is also acceptable. Its about sustainability and not just making a quick buck. As I stated in another comment, with capitalism comes responsibility and right now we seem to be going backwords!

@moaca

without being disrespectful, if your company has outsourced then who is at fault or in trouble?

I think you are biased as you are unhappy with your firms decision. But think in clear mind, pages are turning. India, China and others are on a journey with great future.

Just think about it, about 40 years ago, Made in Japan was synonimous to bad quality.

It will not take India and China that long.

There was a group message on my linkedin, Internaional Trade Group laying out the benefits to setting up manufacturing in China. Labor rate is 65 American cents per hour. Sweden nor American can compete with that labor cost. If we don't stop selling our souls to them we will be speaking Chinese in about ten years, in our home countries. Politicians and their corporate owners have sold our countries down the old Yangtze River.

So even this Ericsson deal has to be good for Sweden, and for Ericsson workers in other parts of the world.