Ericsson’s 30 years in Hungary

Did you know? Mobile calls or data traffic from anywhere around the world likely involve the work of Hungarian engineers.

At the forefront of building up all five generations of mobile networks

Many services were launched first in the country with Ericsson technology.

From the very beginning, we played a decisive role in the construction of fixed and mobile telecommunications networks in Hungary. In the 1990s, we installed a capacity of 1.5 million lines, we built the Hungarian GSM mobile network, and then were the first in the world to launch MMS service. Ericsson technology was used for the first GPRS, EDGE, 3G, HSPA, LTE (4G), LTE Advanced (4G +) network launches in the country, and we introduced 5G network in Hungary.

Hundreds of patents from our Hungarian research and development center

We have one of the largest research and development departments in the Hungarian telecommunications and IT industry. At our R&D center, more than 1,600 colleagues work on technologies that define our future, such as 5G, IoT, Cloud, network analytics, and artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Our Hungarian engineers play a key role in the development and operation of mobile and fixed broadband systems around the world, and domestic developments have now been integrated into the everyday technology of telecommunications. Ericsson registered more than 33,000 patents worldwide, of which hundreds were born from the ideas of our Hungarian engineers. In addition to the R&D center, Ericsson Garage, our technology incubator laboratory is, where we focus on the most important innovation topics in our industry.

Providing the basis for two domestic mobile networks

We supply mobile network to the largest market players. We are Magyar Telekom's - the market-leading telecommunications service provider’s - strategic partner and the main supplier of its mobile network. DIGI's mobile network is also made up of Ericsson equipment.

In our engineering service center, we serve, integrate and support telecommunication systems in many countries of the world, and in our center providing managed services, we perform on-site and field maintenance for domestic service providers.

Among the most significant corporate supporters of Hungarian education for 27 years

We established the Ericsson Award in the 1990s, and we are also co-founders of the Professor Rátz Lifetime Achievement Award, both considered among the most prestigious recognitions for teachers of physics and mathematics.

Through our university laboratories and collaborations, we give special assistance to Hungarian higher education in research projects, in building their international relations and in sharing their results with the world. The High-Speed ​​Networks Lab was launched at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, which operates as a worldwide Ericsson competence center. The country's first Complex Hardware Design Laboratory was also born on the University. The Communication Networks Lab was established at the Eötvös Loránd University, followed by the foundation of the Software Technology Lab.

More than 2,000 people in our ever-growing team

We currently employ more than two thousand people in Hungary and are committed to further expanding employment in the country. We are also regular organizers and participants of online and offline events such as Reinforce AI Conference, HackETHon, Ericsson Programming Championship, Craft Conference, Crunch, HUSTEF Conference and countless technology webinars.

We recently moved into the Ericsson House, the construction of which also reflects the characteristic openness of the company's culture, the spaces and devices meeting all needs of our colleagues were made with environmentally friendly technology and sustainable solutions.