Ericsson Corporation, is a leading multinational firm of telecommunications and networking equipment, headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. It is founded in 1876 by Lars Magnus Ericsson. The company is a worldwide leader of delivering ICT solutions. It provides the services in mobility, broadband and other cloud applications. Ericsson is the company of more than 39,000 patents. It has a large hold on standards patents for mobile communications. Their patents portfolio covers 2G, 3G and 4G technologies. More than 40% phone calls are made through their systems and more than 2 billion people use their network worldwide. The company has customers in more than 180 countries which are provided by the services like cloud services and broadband.
Ericsson provides end to end services for major mobile communications sectors and has four major business segments. These segments are Business Unit Networks, Business Unit Global Services, Business Unit Support Solutions and Business Unit modems.