Volvo Cars and Ericsson have announced the signing of a five-year connected vehicle deal. According to the deal, Ericsson will provide its Connected Vehicle Cloud platform to Volvo Cars that would further boost the automaker’s digital vehicle services in more than 120 countries across the globe for the next five years.

The automaker aims to focus more on securing high-quality connected-vehicle services since digitalisation expands the need of software services. Through this deal Volvo Car owners will be able to enjoy the latest developments in connected car digital services like fleet management, automation, telematics, navigation and infotainment.

Modern day car buyers are increasingly differentiating their car buying decisions on the basis of digital services; hence there is always a need for a secured and reliable service provision infrastructure to deliver quality of service at scale. 

Åsa Tamsons, head of business area technologies and new businesses, Ericsson, said: "Ericsson is providing a highly scalable and global platform for connected services to Volvo Cars. By removing complexity in areas such as data legislation and storage management, and improving services latency, our platform enhances the overall user experience of Volvo Cars' connected services.”