Finland's Wireless Fast Track Thanks in large measure to mobile handset pacesetter Nokia, this small nation, about the size of Montana with a population of some 5 million people, is where the rest of the world looks for wireless guidance. But so far no one is willing to put it together. Printer friendly version.
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The results for the first quarter are in for the mobile-phone giants of Europe, and they show starkly the winner and the loser in this sector. Ericsson's weaknesses are proving at least as bad as the most pessimistic analyses two or three months back. It's only a matter of weeks since Ericsson announced that it was handing off the manufacture of mobile-phone handsets to an outside contractor. This was a good move since the Swedish company has suffered repeated production and distribution glitches in this department and has been losing money on handsets for quite a while. This, too, is a canny move.