{"id":1043818,"date":"2026-10-16T07:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T02:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1043818"},"modified":"2026-10-16T07:46:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T02:16:46","slug":"ericsson-cites-solid-demand-as-q3-operating-profit-beats-forecasts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/16\/ericsson-cites-solid-demand-as-q3-operating-profit-beats-forecasts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ericsson cites &#8216;solid&#8217; demand as Q3 operating profit beats forecasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stockholm: Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson posted Thursday a 49 percent drop in net profit for the third quarter from a year earlier, when the group benefited from a one-time gain from the sale of a US business. <\/p>\n<p>But profit on ordinary operations beat analyst expectations thanks to &#8220;solid customer demand in strategic markets&#8221;, the company said. <\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, the group has faced soaring semiconductor prices as a result of the surge in AI-linked demand, and it warned that geopolitical risks and rising component costs were &#8220;a headwind to gross margin next year&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stockholm: Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson posted Thursday a 49 percent drop in net profit for the third quarter from a year earlier, when the group benefited from a one-time gain from the sale of a US business. But profit on ordinary operations beat analyst expectations thanks to &#8220;solid customer demand in strategic markets&#8221;, the company said. Nonetheless, the group has faced soaring semiconductor prices as a result of the surge in AI-linked demand, and it warned that geopolitical risks and rising component costs were &#8220;a headwind to gross margin next year&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043819,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043818\/revisions\/1043819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}