Huawei Technologies has become the latest equipment manufacturer to sign a license agreement with Ericsson.
The Swedish manufacturer is pursuing an aggressive licensing programme for its W-CDMA patent portfolio, which is one of the most extensive in the industry. Huawei, a Chinese developer of mobile infrastructure and terminals, will pay Ericsson royalties for use of its patents and provide a reciprocal licensing agreement to the Swedish company. The deal with Huawei follows similar agreements with RIM and TCL Mobile.
“This agreement further demonstrates Ericsson’s commitment to fully support, and co-operate with local Chinese vendors in order to accelerate the development of 3G mobile telephony and facilitate the market growth in China. This will create new opportunities for both the local Chinese industry and Ericsson, and further leverages on Ericsson’s technology leadership and patent portfolio. Ericsson is promoting 3G in China and is showing the way to the rest of the industry by granting a license under terms to encourage competitive accumulated royalty rate for W-CDMA,” said Torbjorn Nilsson, Senior Vice President, Marketing and Strategic Business Development.