Traditional Telecom actors
Telia (www.telia.se)
- Recognizes the importance of the Internet
- has marketed PhoneDouble (developed at Ellemtel)
- Buy rights to have a mirror AltaVista site (the first european mirror site)
- 10,000 ADSL users pilot; service rollout expected for Stockholm and Göteborg
Ericsson (www.ericsson.se)
- Discovers Internet in a big way
- At kickoff for data networking (Sept. 25) -Anders Igel says: Data is no longer an option it is a MUST!
- At Telecom Interactive '97 conference in Geneva, Bo Hedfors, head of Ericsson US announced that the company slogan would be changed from "It's about communication between people, the rest is technology" to "It's ... the rest is IP".
- Ericsson (Finland) produced LANPhone