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Ericsson to stop making modems
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SWEDISH telecom equipment company Ericsson said yesterday that it would stop developing modems, a decision affecting almost 1,600 employees worldwide which is expected to lead to hundreds of job cuts.
The group said in a statement that it would “discontinue future development of modems” but that some of the 1,582 employees affected could be redeployed to new jobs in research and development for radio networks.
The decision marks a strategic shift for Ericsson, following an evaluation of the global modem market which the company said was subject to “strong competition, price erosion and an accelerating pace of technology innovation.”
Ericsson took over the production of LTE thin modems, which smartphones use to access the Internet, after the breakup of a joint operation with the French-Italian microchip manufacturer STMicroelectronics in 2013.
The company launched its own modem a year later which it will continue to produce. “The market has fallen. There are fewer and fewer mobile phone makers who buy separate modems — they buy them together with the processors, and we don’t have processors,” Ericsson’s Chief Executive Hans Vestberg said. “Instead we have decided to focus more on our core business, where we are strongest, and that is radio (wireless) technology.”
Ericsson employes 1,582 in its modem operations in China, Sweden, India, Germany and Finland.
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