Ericsson has signed its first licence agreements for LTE technology patents, allowing other companies to use its technology Reuters reported.

Gustav Brismark, VP of patent strategies at Ericsson, told Reuters the firm already had more than 80 similar patent agreements in place for earlier technologies, such as GSM and WCDMA. He said, “The first agreements including LTE have been signed, and over time more or less all these agreements will be renegotiated to include LTE, but that will not be done in a day… It is important to be able to continue the strategy of having licence revenues as one part of what Ericsson makes money from.”