ERICSSON
| Registered office | Sweden - Stockholm |
|---|---|
| Other branches | Zagreb (HR) |
| Industries | IT |
| Categories | advisory, surveillance, IT, contractor |
| Sources | Unspecified |
| Website | https://www.ericsson.com/en |
About the company
Ericsson is a Swedish communications service provider with a long tradition. The company offers government agencies special networks for communication (government radio) and thus fundamentally benefits from the growing exchange of information and data volumes.
Contribution to the EU border regime
One of the conditions for Schengen accession for the applicant countries was to network the border police using the TETRA standard, a task that Ericsson (together with Airbus) carried out for the Bulgarian Ministry of the Interior from 2011, for example. Frontex had previously evaluated which providers could be considered for this and communicated this to the applicant countries. In addition, Ericsson was involved in various lobbying organizations, particularly in the early phase, which generally promoted technical solutions to politically defined problems - including the European Security Research Advisory Board (ESRAB), which was to design EU security research in 2005. Croatian offshoot Ericsson Nikola Tesla d.d. offers, among other things, a "border control" system that, by combining a wide variety of sensors into a "common operational picture," is designed to help "detect, classify and stop those crossing borders beyond designated crossing points." The company was awarded a contract here in 2018 to secure the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina for €3.8 million - financed in part by the European Commission's Internal Security Fund (ISF).
Added: Jan. 11, 2024
Last update: Jan. 28, 2024, 12:03 p.m.