It all began in the year 1876, in a 13-square meter repair workshop for telegraph instruments in downtown Stockholm. 30-year-old mechanic Lars Magnus Ericsson laid the foundation for one of the world's leading telecommunication companies with his former work colleague Carl Johan Andersson. It was, coincidentally, the same year that Alexander Graham Bell filed his patent application for a telephone in the United States.

Follow the amazing story in which Ericsson starts off by repairing foreign-made telephones but soon starts making and selling his own telephones, then a few years later forms an agreement to supply telephones and switchboards to Sweden's first telecom operating company, Stockholms Allmänna Telefonaktiebolag.

That was only the beginning of Ericsson’s achievements in the area of telecommunications. L M Ericsson's repair shop is now a worldwide telecom supplier. Some periods have been characterized by struggles, economic crises, or conflict such as the Second World War. You will read about the first automatic switching system, the very popular all in one telephone set known as the Cobra, the revolutionary computer controlled-switch AXE, launched in 1975 and the mobile telephone breakthrough that has led to today's high-speed communication with 3G technology.