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Telephone Jubilee at
Ericsson do Brasil
The production of telephone sets at
Ericsson do Brasil recently passed the
half-million mark and is rising as a
rapid rate of about 80,000 per annum.
To celebrate this jubilee in the history
of the factory, invitations were extended
to General Amaury Kruel and
Dr. Jose Mech, Secretary of Public
Works in Sao Paulo, and a number
of other prominent personages from
Sao Paulo, to visit the plant at Sao
Jose dos Campos.
From the opening of Sweden's first code switch exchange at Drevviksstrand: Director General
Hakan Sterky is seen hetween Mr. Bjorn Lundvall (left). President of L M Ericsson, and Mr.
Malte Patricks, Executive Vice President.
First Swedish Code Switch Exchange
The General arrived in a helicopter
and was greeted with applause by the
factory workers. The Swedish Consul
General at Sao Paulo, Erik Svedelius,
Chairman of the Board of Ericsson
do Brasil, spoke at the ceremony and
presented General Kruel with a white
DBH 15 telephone with a commemorative
medallion embossed on it.
In September 1%5 the new automatic
exchange of the Swedish Telecommunications
Administration at
Drevviksstrand, Stockholm, was cut
over. This exchange is the first exchange
operating on the L M Ericsson
code switch system (described in
Ericsson Review No. 3. 1964) to be
installed in Sweden and the second
in the world after the N0rregade exchange
in Copenhagen.
The new exchange, an AKF 10
system with initial capacity of 4000
subscriber lines, is housed in a building
which will permit expansion up
to 30,000 lines.
The most striking feature of the
code switch is its compact structure.
A comparison with the 6-horizontal
crossbar switch shows that the code
switch has 70 per cent more contacts
within a smaller volume. The front
area of the code switch is about onethird
that of the crossbar switch.
In his opening address Mr. Hakan
Sterky, Director General of the Board
of Telecommunications, stated that
Sweden today has the highest per
capita telephone density in the world
counted on the number of direct exchange
lines, and second after the
United States on the basis of number
of telephone sets, which in Sweden is
now about 3.5 million. At the present
rapid rate of expansion Mr. Sterky
forecast that by 1980 Sweden will have
6 million telephones.
Among other representatives of the
Telecommunications Administration
at the opening ceremony were Mr.
Bertil Bjurel, Deputy Director General,
and Mr. Torsten Larsson, Technical
Director. Among L M Ericsson
representatives were the President,
Mr. Bjorn Lundvall, and Executive
Vice President, Mr. Malte Patricks.
The event was shown on television
and at short-film cinemas, and was
reported extensively in the press. In
the Sao Paulo parliament Ericsson do
Brasil was specially mentioned for its
important contributions to the manufacture
of telephone equipment.
From the telephone jubilee at Ericsson do Brasil (EDB): (from left) Mr. Ragnar Hallberg, EDB,
Sr. Jose Marcondes Pereira, Mayor of Sao Jose dos Campos, Sr. Geraldo Nobrega, EDB,
General Amaury Kruel with the 500,000th telephone, Robert Brunn, Manager of Sao Jose dos
Campos factory, Consul General Erik Svedelius, and Dr. Jose Mech, Secretary of Public Works
at Sao Paulo.
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