We create connections that make the unimaginable possible

NMT (Nordic Mobile Telephony) was the first generation of mobile telephony. It's the foundation for the communications revolution that made mobile phones an unmissable part of our daily lives.

The invention of 2G GSM led to more powerful, versatile phones. High-level encryption for both SIM cards and digital speech transmission gave users an enormously improved level of security compared to analog mobile networks. Our vision to create a scalable, flexible standard that could easily be exported paved the way for adoption by all European operators.

Bluetooth is one of our best-known innovations; a wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances. Named after the Danish king "Blåtand" (Bluetooth) Gormsson, the technology was originally intended to allow mobile phones to connect with each other wirelessly. However, we quickly discovered that the chip-and-antenna pairing could communicate with a lot more than just mobile phones. With billions of products containing Bluetooth being shipped a year, it has become truly omnipresent.

LTE offers a superior user experience with simplified technology for next-generation mobile broadband. When the demand for mobile data kept increasing in the early 2000s, the need to develop the fourth generation of networks became apparent. In 2007, US operator Verizon paved the way for a joint global standard. For the first time in history, Verizon abandoned their plans and adopted Ericsson's LTE concept. Two years later, we launched the world's first live LTE network in Sweden.