Sony and Ericsson merged to make a new company in 2001.
They are in the process in using 3G technologies to improve their mobile
phone handsets even more. Before this they were just two companies, Sony
involved in consumer electrics and Ericsson involved in the telecommunications
industry.
Sony
Sony was founded by Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita and was originally named
Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo (Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Company). After
World War 2, Japan was economy was poor but this didn’t disrupt
Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita global expansion vision. They expanded to
the US and later Europe.
After expanding, there original name TTK, was being used by another company
so to achieve company originality they changed the companies name to Sony
in 1958.
From this point Sony grew and grew to become one of the most popular
brands of electrics, producing Televisions, computer, audio equipment
and much more. In 1968 Sony UK was founded in London.
Ericsson
Surprisingly Ericsson it much more an older company than its partner
in Sony Ericsson, Sony.
In 1876, a man named Lars Magnus Ericsson had a shop mending telegraph
equipment in Stockholm, Sweden which coincided with Alexander Graham Bell
inventing the telephone in the US and Bell’s telephones started
on sale in Sweden the following year. Ericsson started to repair telephone
equipment and in 1885, the company produced it first handsets and still
does today.
1900, Managing Director and founder Lars Magnus Ericsson resigned from
his post and in 1903 LM Ericsson resigned from the board altogether. Ericsson
was active in Scandinavia, UK, USA, Germany, The Netherlands, Russia,
Spain, Egypt, Ethiopia, South Africa, China, Asia, and Oceania.
Ericsson then grows and advances through both World Wars and increasing
gains influence in the US through up to 1987.
1987, Ericsson produces the first mobile phone for the NMT Network. Also
the not released network, GSM has been chosen for the first European mobile
network.
1992, the GSM network was launched in Europe. Ericsson started to make
more and more mobiles to keep up with the demand. 1998, Symbian is established,
joint venture between Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola, Panasonic and Psion.
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