Ericsson announced this that week their CTO Håkan Eriksson will move to Silicon Valley and head up of their IP business.

We few people living here in Scandinavia are  proud of having been at the forefront of the mobile development for a long time. It all started with the NMT – Nordic Mobile Telephone – system which success lead to the establishment of the pan-European GSM that conquered the world. Companies like Ericsson and Nokia has been huge successes in the mobile world and continue to dominate the system and phone markets.

The latest example of the big Nordic companies getting their way is the momentum building up behind LTE, the new high speed mobile data standard.  LTE is all about IP communications and we have seen the trend that mobile is becoming more and more IP communications.

We are now seeing other players like Apple and Google (iPhone and Android) having success in mobile. So the fact that Ericsson’s CTO relocates to Silicon Valley to be closer to the action is a clear example of the shift in focus for mobile to be much more driven by the US centric IP communications business.

For GIPS, I think this is good news, the more IP communications that need high quality voice and video, the merrier.

Tags: IP communication, mobil

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