Ericsson Gets Outsourcing Contract from Sprint

A Swedish newspaper, Affarsvarlden has reported that Ericsson has an outsourcing contract with Sprint.

Ericsson has won a service contract from Sprint worth several billion dollars.. The contract is for the operation of Sprint’s mobile phone networks and will last for several years

he contract is a surprise given that Sprint operates a so-called CDMA network, a standard that Ericsson no longer supports.

The contract value is estimated at just over 2 billion dollars, one of the greatest of all time for the company.

Ericsson will take care of the Sprint center and also in the spider web of contacts with Sprint’s suppliers.

The order from Sprint would mean the third major contract for Ericsson in the U.S. market.