ABOUT US
* 15 the number of years we've been doing managed services.
* 100 the number of languages spoken by our support professionals.
* 8 our ranking on the list of the world's top IT companies.
* 1992 the first text message was sent.
* 200 THOUSAND the number of texts sent EVERY SECOND of every day.
* FIFTH LARGEST software company in the world.
* THE FUTURE we're making it together.
* 40% of
the world's mobile calls pass through our networks.
* 97,929 people work for us around the world.
* 27,000 patents belong to us.
* 16 the number of patents we file per day.
* 180 Countries where we do business.
* 2000 the launch of our first solar-powered radio base station.
* MORE THAN 200 of our base-station sites are now running on solar power.
* 2000 Ericsson Response is founded to assist humanitarian agencies in disasters.
* 2001 We are the first to use 3G in a call to China.
* 2009 We are the first to launch 4G commercially.
* THE US AND CHINA are our biggest markets.
* 2016 the year we predict data traffic from smartphones will exceed the data traffic from PCs on broadband networks.
* 800 MILLION Subscribers in networks we manage.
* 50 BILLION The number of connected devices by 2020.
* 100 TIMES The traffic generated on a mobile PC compared to feature phone.
* 1976 With Sweden's Televerket, we launch AXE,the switch that changes telecom forever.
* 19 the number of new connections PER SECOND added to a mobile network.
* 350 MILLION households are hooked up to broadband.
* 5,7 BILLION the total number of mobile subscriptions.
* 1994 the year our engineers invent Bluetooth.
* EVERY 7 MINUTES we connect another base station in India.
* 2001 Sony Ericsson joint venture is formed.
* 2005 with Norwegian TV,we trial the world's first interactive TV show.
* 2006 We acquire Marconi improving our optics portfolio.
* 2007 WE acquire Redback and its IP router technology.
* 2007 WE acquire Entrisphere and its GPON technology.
* TWO-THIRDS of people who can access LTE do so through an Ericsson network.
* 2007 We acquire Tandberg Television and its television leadership.
* IN 3D How we delivered 2010 World Cup football to ESPN.
* MORE THAN 50% our market share in 4G/LTE in 2010.
* MORE THAN 50 LTE trials are ongoing around the world.
* OPERATORS IN 12 COUNTRIES ON 5 CONTINENTS offer 4G on Ericsson networks.
* 2008 ST-Ericsson joint venture is formed.
* 2009 We acquire Nortel wireless assets and CDMA technology.
* 2010 we acquire LG-Nortel and rename it LG-Ericsson in South Korea.
* 1876 the year Lars Magnus Ericsson founded our company in Stockholm,Sweden. Ericsson one of Sweden's largest companies, is a provider of telecommunication and data communication systems, and related services, covering a range of technologies, including especially mobile networks. Founded in 1876 as a telegraph equipment repair shop by Lars Magnus Ericsson, it was incorporated on August 18, 1918. Headquartered in Kista, Stockholm Municipality, since 2003, Ericsson is considered part of the so-called "Wireless Valley". Since the mid-1990s, Ericsson's extensive presence in Stockholm has helped transform the city into one of Europe's hubs of information technology (IT) research. Ericsson has offices and operations in more than 180 countries, with more than 17,700 staff in Sweden, and also significant presences in, for example, Brazil, China, Finland, India, Ireland, Italy, Hungary, the UK and the USA. In the early 20th century, Ericsson dominated the world market for manual telephone exchanges but was late to introduce automatic equipment. The world's largest ever manual telephone exchange, serving 60,000 lines, was installed by Ericsson in Moscow in 1916. Throughout the 1990s, Ericsson held a 35-40% market share of installed cellular telephone systems. Like most of the telecommunications industry, Ericsson suffered heavy losses after the telecommunications crash in the early 2000s, and had to lay off tens of thousands of staff worldwide in an attempt to manage the financial situation, returning to profit by the mid-2000s. Ericsson is currently the world's largest mobile telecommunications equipment vendor with a market share of 35%.
