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Ericsson inaugurates new R&D facilities in Nanjing

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN — (Marketwire) — 09/20/12 —

* After 20 years of development, Nanjing Ericsson Panda Communications
Co.,
Ltd. has grown to become Ericsson-s largest production and supply
center

* Ericsson increases investment in Nanjing R&D Center, inaugurating new
11,700sq m building

* Ericsson has invested more than CNY 450 million in Nanjing over the
past
five years

Nanjing Ericsson Panda Communications Co. Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as
“ENC”) celebrated its 20th anniversary today. Founded in 1992 as a
production
unit, ENC has developed vigorously and matured into Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC)-s
largest production supply center and one of the most important research and
development bases in the world.

Over the past five years, Ericsson has invested more than CNY 450 million
in
ENC. In 2008, Ericsson invested to expand the total area of factory
buildings
and ancillary facilities to approximately 13,000sq m. The expansion,
completed
in 2009, increased the ENC-s production area by 50 percent and doubled its
production capacity, which is mainly devoted to 3G equipment. In 2011,
Ericsson
invested to double the scale of its R&D Center in Nanjing and its
infrastructure
to meet the demand for expanded operations.

The inauguration of the new Nanjing R&D Center building, which covers a
total
area of 11,700sq m, will enhance the company-s R&D capability in 3G and
LTE. One
of Ericsson China-s five major R&D centers, the Nanjing R&D Center
currently
employs about 500 R&D engineers who are working on software and hardware
for
various communication standards, including GSM, WCDMA, LTE FDD and TDD
(TD-LTE).
The radio network controllers and radio base stations developed by the
center
have been deployed by major operators in more than 100 networks around the
world.

Mr. Yang Weize, Party Secretary of Nanjing Municipality said: “We would
like to
congratulate ENC for your progress in the past 20 years and thank you for
the
great contribution you have made to the development of the entire industry
chain
in Jiangsu province and Nanjing city, as well as the social and economic
development in the region. We sincerely hope that ENC will continue to
prosper.”

Mats H Olsson, President of Ericsson North East Asia and Chairman of
Ericsson
China, said: “In the past 20 years, ENC has grown from a local production
factory into a world class global production and supply unit. In fact, ENC
of
today is truly serves as a benchmark for the success of the globalization
of
Ericsson. ENC will play an even more important role in the development of
the
ICT industry in China and around the world.”

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services. We are enabling the Networked Society with efficient real-time
solutions that allow us all to study, work and live our lives more freely,
in
sustainable societies around the world.

Our offering comprises services, software and infrastructure within
Information
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Today
more than 40 percent of the world-s mobile traffic goes through Ericsson
networks and we support customers- networks servicing more than 2.5 billion
subscribers.

We operate in 180 countries and employ more than 100,000 people. Founded in
1876, Ericsson is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. In 2011 the company-s
net
sales were SEK 226.9 billion (USD 35.0 billion). Ericsson is listed on
NASDAQ
OMX, Stockholm and NASDAQ, New York stock exchanges.

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