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Revision as of 12:30, 25 June 2018

This is a timeline of FIXME.

Big picture

Time period Development summary
1960s Ericsson releases one of the first handsfree speaker phones.[1]

Full timeline

Year Event type Details
1876 "Lars Magnus Ericsson opens telegraph repair workshop"[2]
1878 L.M. Ericsson begins producing telephone equipment.[1]
1881 "First major contracts won in Norway, Russia and Sweden"[2]
1897 Britain accounts for 28% of L.M. Ericsson’s sales.[1]
1900 "1000 employees globally, SEK 4 million in sales and 50,000 telephones produced"[2]
1902 "Sales office opens in US"[2]
1903 Ericssons set up a joint venture company with the National Telephone Company to produce telephones at Beeston for sales to Britain and its colonies.[1]
1905 "First acquisition made in Mexico"[2]
1908 Ericsson acquires Deckert & Homolka in Vienna.[1]
1911 Ericsson acquires S.I.T. in France.[1]
1912 Ericsson acquires a factory in Budapest.[1]
1923 "First automatic 500-point switches in service" [2]
1946 "Foundation for research into television established"[2]
1950 "LM Ericsson telephone exchange supports world's first international call"[2]
1956 Ericsson releases the Ericofon.[1]
1977 "First digital telephone exchange (AXE) installed"[2]
1988 "First GSM system order from Vodafone, UK"[2]
1991 "AXE lines exceed 105 million in 11 countries, serving 34 million subscribers"[2]
2000 "Ericsson becomes world's leading supplier of 3G mobile systems"[2]
2001 "Ericsson conducts the first 3G call for Vodafone, UK"[2]
2005 "Ericsson wins biggest contracts to date to manage operator 3's networks in Italy and the UK"[2]
2008 "Research center established in Silicon Valley, USA"[2]
2009 "Verizon and Ericsson collaborate to carry out first data call on 4G network"[2]
2011 "Ericsson completes the acquisition of Telcordia"[2]
2012 "Ericsson completes the acquisition of BelAir"[2]
2015 Ericsson employs a total of 118,055 people.[3]

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How the timeline was built

The initial version of the timeline was written by FIXME.

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See also

External links

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 "A Brief History of L M Ericssons". telephonecollecting.org. Retrieved 25 June 2018. 
  2. 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 "Corporate story". ericsson.com. Retrieved 25 June 2018. 
  3. "Ericsson SuccessStory". successstory.com. Retrieved 25 June 2018.