Ericsson has been forced to take some calculated risks to atone for decline in revenues from its core mobile infrastructure business. The launch this week of its global unified delivery network can be seen in this context because it appears to break one of the group’s long held principles of not competing with its customers. By partnering with leading global service providers including Hutchison, Vodafone, Telstra and AIS of Thailand to construct this content delivery ecosystem aggregating regional service provider network capacity, Ericsson is in danger of antagonizing some of its other Telco customers. Some of them may compete with one or more of these partners. That however is now a lesser concern than the need to press ahead with…