Ericsson

Ericsson was founded in Stockholm in 1876 as a telegraph repair workshop. It is headquartered in Kista, Stockholm, and listed on Nasdaq Stockholm and on Nasdaq in New York.

It supplies mobile network equipment and software to telecom operators: radio access networks and antennas, 5G core and cloud-native network software, managed services and a large patent portfolio licensed across the industry. It also sells enterprise wireless equipment and, through Vonage, communication and network APIs for developers. The Erlang programming language was created at Ericsson.

According to its report for the second quarter of 2026, Ericsson had 86,536 employees on 30 June 2026. Its biggest workforces are in Sweden, where it runs R&D in Kista, Linköping, Gothenburg, Lund and Karlskrona, and in India, with further R&D in China, the US, Canada (Ottawa and Montreal), Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Croatia, Poland, Romania and Turkey.