Swedish telecoms equipment manufacturer LM Ericsson Telefon AB is beefing up its offering into the mobile e-commerce sector by forming a specific business for this market. Christian Testman, one of the two joint heads of the new unit, explained that it draws human resources from two of EricssonÆs three business segments. There are people from the Business Consulting sector of its wireline division and from the Wireless Internet Solutions area of the wireless infrastructure business. Only the handset division is not directly involved, acting rather as a partner of the new unit, Testman explained.
Testman himself comes from the wireless infrastructure side, known as Ericsson Radio Systems, while his co-head Leif Eriksson is from Business Consulting. He explained that the target market determines the inter-denominational nature of the unit. It will be aimed at both network operators, where the wireless division has around 40% of the worldÆs players, and enterprises, where Business Consulting has strong penetration.
