1 - History of Ericsson - History of Ericsson

NEWS from
All Quarters of the World
New Brazilian Contract:
Extension of Fortaleza Network
L M Ericsson has recently signed
a contract with the Brazilian Municipality
of Fortaleza for extension of
its telephone installations. Fortaleza
is capital city and an important administrative
and commercial centre
in the province of Ceara. It has at
present four urban exchanges with a
total capacity of 14 600 lines in operation
- 10 000 of the 500-line selector
system AGF and 4 600 crossbar ARF.
The first of these exchanges was
opened in 1437 and is still rendering
admirable service. The new order involves
an addition of 8 000 ARF
lines.
The photograph above shows the
signing of the contract by the chairman
of the board of Ericsson do Brasil.
General Juracy Magalhaes, in the
presence of (from left) the head of
the Fortaleza telephone administration,
Gerardo Maia, the president of
Ericsson do Brasil, Ragnar Hellberg.
the governor of Ceara, Colonel Virgil
io Tavora, and the mayor of Fortaleza.
General Murillo Borges.
Another Large
Order from
Colombia
L M Ericsson has received orders
from Colombia for telephone equipment
to an amount of over 10 million
kronor. They comprise mostly carrier
and automatic switching equipment
for extension of the long distance
network, which was constructed by
I. M Ericsson.
Colombia is a large market for
L M Ericsson, which has supplied a
considerable part of the telephone installations
in the country. The first
Ericsson automatic exchanges were
delivered in the early thirties.
Extension of the automatic exchanges
of Bogota and Medellin by
some 40 000 lines was contracted last
year.
First Automatic Exchange
in Sumatra
The first automatic exchange in
Sumatra, Indonesia, was opened recently.
It is an Ericsson ARF 101 exchange
with a capacity of 1 000 lines
and is located at Tandjungkarang. In
the photograph below the Resident
of Lampung. Zainal Abidin, cuts the
symbolical tape.
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