Sony Ericsson Owned By Sony Completely

Sony Ericsson is a joint venture between Japanese Corporation, Sony with Ericsson AB from Sweden. This company has been established since 2001 ago. This company is a leading mobile phone manufacturers, Sony Ericsson.

At the beginning they was quite successful market their products. But the last five years they have trouble to following the market trends so that the sales decline. In 2007 they managed to sell 103 million units of mobile phones and last year only able to sell 43 million units.

Sony wants to have the company fully by buying 50 percent Ericsson's stake in the Sony Ericsson company with a value of U.S. $ 1.5 Billion.

Thus, Sony will produce independently of their products such as tablet PCs, gaming consoles, smartphones, televisions and other products. Previously, mobile phones production are made separately by Sony Ericsson.

By the ownership of Ericsson, Sony is also entitled to intellectual property licensing company that allows them to use those patents to develop their tablet products, especially in the field of wireless communications.

If Sony really wants to split up, Ericsson will be back in sales and service of wireless transmission business that they do from the first.The acquisition process is expected to be completed in early 2012.

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