Ericsson specializes in the design, manufacture, and marketing of stationary and mobile telecommunications systems and equipment. Net sales (including intragroup) break down by product families as follows:
- transmission network and telephony equipment and systems (66.5%);
- services (29.7%): primarily network management and control and systems integration services;
- multimedia equipments (3.8%).
At the end of 2011, the group had 26 production sites worldwide.
Net sales break down geographically as follows: Sweden (1.7%), China (7.7%), India (4.3%), Europe and Asia/Pacific (39.1%), the United States (20.5%), North America (1%), Latin America (9.7%), Middle East (6.8%), sub-Saharan Africa (4.5%) and other (4.7%).