Ericsson Appoints Rima Qureshi Chief Strategy Officer


30th Apr 2014

Ericsson has appointed Rima Qureshi as  new Chief Strategy Officer where she will also drive the company's mergers and acquisitions (M A) strategy and activities. In addition she will serve as Chairman of Business Unit Modems.
Rima Qureshi previously led the integration of the CDMA and LTE assets of the former Nortel Networks and ran the business unit CDMA Mobile Systems during 2010-2012.
She has been Senior Vice President and part of Ericsson's Executive Leadership Team since 2010.
Rima Qureshi said: "The industry is going through a rapid transformation and I could not think of a more exciting time period to lead Ericsson's Group strategy development. At the same time I am also looking forward to working closely with the team at Business Unit Modems to ensure we are successful based on the industry's most advanced LTE thin modem."

Rima Qureshi joined Ericsson in 1993, and prior to running Business Unit CDMA Mobile Systems, her career spanned leadership roles in R&D, sales, and Services, including managing Global Service Delivery Centers in Canada, the US, Mexico and Brazil.


Qureshi holds a Bachelor's degree in Information Systems and an MBA, both from McGill University in Montréal, Canada.

Nokia's Former CEO Paid More Than Expected for Microsoft Deal

1st-May2014

Nokia's former CEO and now head of Microsoft's mobile phone division Stephen Elop received a larger than expected pay off from the deal to sell the phones division.

He earned nearly a third more than the already locally controversial payout and took USD33.5 million from the deal.

Although payouts of that size are not unusual in corporate deals of this size in the USA, it raised protests in Finland where he Elop was seen as profiting from the demise of a local icon.

The main reason for the higher than expected payout was due to the rise in the value of Nokia shares following the announcement of the sale, recovering a little of the slump they experienced under Elop's leadership.


Nokia said that 70% of the pay-off was funded by Microsoft.

UMTS To LTE Reselection

LTE 2 reselection mechanisms are used in UMTS

Legacy Based:
This is ranking based system and it applies to intra-frequency, inter-frequency as well as for GSM reselection.

Priority Based:
This mechanism applies for cell reselection from WCDMA to LTE 
Priority based method results into 2 different scenarios:

High Priority UMTS to Low Priority LTE 
Low Priority UMTS to High Priority LTE 

Both legacy based and priority based cell reselection can be active at the same time.

Reselection from Low Priority UMTS to High Priority LTE
If LTE frequency is of higher priority than the current frequency, measurements are always performed.

Measurement Condition:
The UE searches every layer of higher priority at every Thigher_priority_search = (60*Nlayers) seconds.
Nlayers is the total number of configured higher priority E-UTRA frequencies

Reselection Condition:
Cell reselection occurs if UE finds a cell with an Srxlev value greater than ThreshHigh. 

Srxlev (target) > ThreshHigh


Reselection from High Priority UMTS to Low Priority LTE

Measurement Condition:

The UE only starts measurement for candidate LTE when following threshold is met.
Srxlev (serving) < SPrioritySearch1
Squal (serving) < SPrioritySearch2

Reselection Condition:
If Srx value of the serving cell falls below the threshServingLow value, UE attempts to reselect a cell on LTE. Cell reselection occurs if UE finds a cell with an Srxlev value greater than threshLow value for that frequency.

Srxlev (source) < ThreshServing

Low Srxlev (target) > ThreshLow