Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Ericsson (Telefonaktiebolaget L. M. Ericsson) is a Swedish telecommunications equipment manufacturer, founded in 1876 as a telegraph equipment repair shop by Lars Magnus Ericsson. 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 has held a 35-40 percent market share of installed cellular telephone systems. Headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, Ericsson is considered to be part of the so-called Wireless Valley. Like most of the telecommunications equipment industry, Ericsson has suffered heavy losses after the telecommunications crash in the early years of the 2000s. They have retrenched thousands of staff worldwide in an attempt to staunch the losses. See also: Sony Ericsson, Investor AB, List of Swedish companies External Links Ericsson - Official site On - Customer magazine Sony Ericsson - Official site This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.