STOCKHOLM, Sept 16, 2007 (AFP) - Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson said Sunday it was keeping a 'low profile' in the Middle East after Al-Al Qaeda in Iraq threatened it over a cartoon which appeared in a Swedish newspaper.

'We decided yesterday to take down our company flag in the Middle East to reduce our visibility,' company spokeswoman Aase Lindskog told AFP.

STOCKHOLM, Sept 7, 2007 (AFP) - Telecoms giant Ericsson said Friday it had won a 1.3-billion-dollar (951-million-euro) contract to upgrade and expand Indian operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd's (BSNL) mobile network.

'This deal is set to be a catalyst for future Telecommunication growth in the dynamic Indian market,' the president of Ericsson India, Mats Granryd, said in a statement.

Ericsson said it would supply a second-generation GSM and third-generation WCDMA/HSPA radio access network and transmission equipment.

ATHENS, Sept 5, 2007 (AFP) - Greece's communication privacy watchdog on Wednesday fined the Greek branch of Swedish Telecommunication equipment giant Ericsson 7.36 million euros (10 million dollars) in relation to a wire-tapping scandal in which even the Greek Prime Minister's cellphone was compromised.

The level of the fine against Ericsson Hellas was imposed bearing in mind the company's turnover, the Greek authority on communication privacy (ADAE) said in a statement.

STOCKHOLM, Aug 30, 2007 (AFP) - Swedish Telecommunication equipment giant Ericsson said Thursday it had won a six-year contract to operate and maintain Deutsche Telekom's microwave network in Germany.

Ericsson spokeswoman Josephine Edwall told Swedish news agency TT that the the contract was worth an average of about 800 million kronor per year, or up to 4.8 billion kronor (698 million dollars, 511 million euros) over six years.