Swedish company Ericsson has agreed that due to the sanctions, its customer support business in Russia will be sold to Sonerik LLC, which was founded in November this year. These release reports News.
It is stated that the company was founded by people from official Ericsson Corporation JSC and MTS. According to the publication, among them are employees of the Russian office of Ericsson, who have worked at the company for more than 10 years, and former top managers of MTS.
The largest co-owners of Sonerik were former chairman of MTS Andrey Dubovskov and former vice president of foreign companies of MTS Andrey Smelkov, each of which owns 25%. Natalia Korchemkina, who worked in Ericsson’s Russia office for nearly 25 years, became the third shareholder of Sonerik’s founder.
A representative from the Russian telecommunications community is confident that the deal is a technical measure that would allow Ericsson to “temporarily leave a toxic presence in Russia and return in a few years”. On the contrary, Konstantin Ankilov, Managing Director of TMT Consulting LLC, believes that Ericsson’s actions confirm that he will not return to Russia.
Ericsson, a Swedish telecommunications equipment manufacturer decided to transfer To the local government as part of the customer support business in Russia.