World's Largest Open University Goes Mobile

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN, Oct 29 (MARKET WIRE) --

* Learning on the mobile for approximately 2.5 million students

* E-learning reaches rural India

* Students from 34 countries benefit through partnerships

The classroom of the future is moving to mobile phones, and reaching
farther into India thanks to a new partnership between Ericsson (NASDAQ:
ERIC) and IGNOU (The Indira Gandhi National Open University). Ericsson
will build a 3G environment for students to download IGNOU course
contents. They can also get SMS alerts on their mobile devices.

Professor V N Rajasekharan Pillai, Vice Chancellor of IGNOU, says: "Our
University is founded on the idea that education should be offered to
less advantaged sections of society. With Ericsson's help, we will create
a learning platform that uses mobile devices to build educational
excellence and exchange information. Our students will benefit from the
flexibility of learning at their own pace, any time, anywhere."

Gowton Achaibar, President of Ericsson India, says: "This partnership is
yet another proof point of telecommunication being key for development of
society. Education using mobile broadband technology will provide an
efficient and economical way to get content to students in distance
learning programs."

The government in India has recently begun promoting higher education in
the country, where only 15 percent of students currently reach high
school. Similarly, India is suffering a shortage of teachers with higher
degrees and 50 percent of college professors teach without a master's
degree or a PhD.

IGNOU was set up to pioneer open and distance learning. It offers various
academic programs leading to Certificates, Diplomas and Degrees. The
university has more than two million students enrolled, in India as well
as in 34 other countries.

Gowton Achaibar adds, "We have a clear opportunity to use India's rapidly
rising teledensity to bring the advantages of broadband to the world of
education."

Notes to editors:

Photos of signing ceremony and Gowton Achaibar will be available here:
http://www.ericsson.com/ericsson/press/photos/index.shtml

Ericsson's multimedia content is available at the broadcast room:
www.ericsson.com/broadcast_room

Ericsson is the world's leading provider of technology and services to
telecom operators. Ericsson is the leader in 2G, 3G and 4G mobile
technologies, and provides support for networks with over 1 billion
subscribers and has a leading position in managed services. The company's
portfolio comprises of mobile and fixed network infrastructure, telecom
services, software, broadband and multimedia solutions for operators,
enterprises and the media industry. The Sony Ericsson and ST-Ericsson
joint ventures provide consumers with feature-rich personal mobile
devices.

Ericsson is advancing its vision of "to be the prime driver in an
all-communicating world" through innovation, technology, and sustainable
business solutions. Working in 175 countries, more than 75,000 employees
generated revenue of SEK 209 billion (USD 32.2 billion) in 2008. Founded
in 1876 with the headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden, Ericsson is listed on
NASDAQ OMX Stockholm and NASDAQ New
York.

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About IGNOU

IGNOU has been established by an Act of Parliament on 1985. In relatively
short period it grew into a giga university by 2004 and by 2006 it grew
into the world's largest among universities of all types. Its students
strength is about 2.5 million worldover. IGNOU has 62 Regional centres,
countryside, nationwide. The Regional centres through 2,340 study
centres. The university is present in 34 countries with 53 partner
institutions abroad. Mandated to take education to the doorsteps of
people, IGNOU today disseminates education to over eight (8) million
homes through the Edusat-mediate beams of DTH services. Increasingly
IGNOU is putting into applications the latest Information and
Communication Technologies (ICTs) to reach out to the unreached in the
remote areas of rural India. www.ignou.ac.in

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