Ericsson

Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Telephone Stock Company of LM Ericsson), known as Ericsson, is a Swedish multinational networking and telecommunications company.

History

The company was founded in 1876 by Lars Magnus Ericsson.

Ericsson introduced the world's first fully automatic mobile telephone system, MTA, in 1956.

In 2001, Ericsson, together with the Japanese company Sony, began production of Sony Ericsson cell phones.

Overview

The company works in 180 countries. In the company works about 100,000 employees.

The company is headquartered in Stockholm.

Ericsson Media

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  Swedish inventor sv:Lars Magnus Ericsson (1846-1926). Picture taken from the frontpage of sv:Hvar 8 dag #34 1906.

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  An early, wooden, Ericsson telephone, made by the Ericsson Telephone Co. Ltd., of Nottingham, England, it is now in the collection of Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum.

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  The LM Ericsson building, the company's former headquarters at Telefonplan in Stockholm

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  The Ericsson DBH1001 (1931) was the first combined telephone set with a housing and handset made from Bakelite. The design is attributed to Jean Heiberg.

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  The Ericsson DBH15 telephone, a successor of the DBH 1001 and redesigned in 1947 by Gerard Kiljan

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  An Ericsson GH337 (1995) and Ericsson T28 (1999) mobile phones

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  The Ericsson GF-768 was a typical product for Swedish industrial design in the 1990ies