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Sony Mobile Communications

Japanese telecommunications company owned by Sony
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Sony Mobile Communications was founded on October 1, 2001[1] and dissolved on April 1, 2021. The company operated as a kabushiki gaisha.

It produced software[2] and was a subsidiary of Sony Group.

Key Facts

  • Member of: Wi-Fi Alliance[3]
  • Country: Japan[4], SE[5]
  • Instance of: enterprise[6]
  • Owned by: Sony Mobile Communications AB[7], Sony Group[8]
  • Follows: Ericsson Mobile Communications[9]
  • Headquarters location: Minato[10]
  • Commons category: Sony Mobile[11]
  • Industry: consumer electronics industry[12], telecommunications[13]
  • Inception: October 1, 2001[14], 2001-09-06[15]
  • Dissolved, abolished or demolished date: April 1, 2021[16]
  • Parent organization or unit: Sony Corporation[17], Sony Group[18]
  • Official website: http://www.sonymobile.com[19]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Sony Mobile[20]
  • Commons gallery: Sony Ericsson[21]
  • Product or material produced: software[22]
  • Replaced by: Sony[23]
  • Official name: ソニー・エリクソン・モバイルコミュニケーションズ株式会社[24], ソニーモバイルコミュニケーションズ株式会社[25], ソニー株式会社[26]
  • Legal form: kabushiki gaisha[27], XJHM[28]
  • MAC Address Block Large ID: 000AD9[29], 000E07[30], 000FDE[31], 0012EE[32], 001620[33], 0016B8[34], 001813[35], 001963[36], 001A75[37], 001B59[38], 001CA4[39], 001D28[40], 001E45[41], 001EDC[42]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 549300EWDLT4SXFEFA76[43]

  • Registered legal name: Sony Mobile Communications AB[44]

  • Legal jurisdiction: SE[45]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[46]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): XJHM[47]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[48]

  • LEI registration status: ISSUED[49]

  • Entity created: 2001-09-06[50]

  • LEI first registered: 2014-01-21[51]

  • LEI last updated: 2026-05-02[52]

  • LEI next renewal: 2027-05-02[53]

  • Managing LOU: 529900F6BNUR3RJ2WH29[54]

  • Registration authority: RA000544[55]

  • Authority entity ID: 556615-6658[56]

  • Other names: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB[57]

  • Conformity flag: CONFORMING[58]

Why It Matters

Sony Mobile Communications has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[59] It is known by 28 alternative names across languages and contexts.[60]

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References

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Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [43] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [44] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [45] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [46] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [47] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [48] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [49] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [50] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [51] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [52] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [53] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [54] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [55] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [56] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [57] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  16. [58] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [59] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [60] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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