Ericsson is a Swedish supplier of telecommunications network equipment and software, headquartered in Stockholm and listed on Nasdaq Stockholm and Nasdaq New York. Its portfolio covers radio systems, cloud core and cloud infrastructure, operations and business support systems, charging and billing, and private 5G and wireless WAN for enterprises. The company describes itself as providing hardware, software and services for connectivity. Mobile network operators and enterprises deploy these systems in their own networks and infrastructure.
The company's global headquarters are in Stockholm, and the parent company is Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), a Swedish public limited company. The company page names no majority shareholder or foreign parent company. Its privacy pages refer to Binding Corporate Rules for the processing and sharing of personal data within the group. The company page does not state where cloud customer data is hosted. For a European organisation, the deployment model matters above all: systems that run in the customer's own network stay under the customer's control, while a hosted cloud service needs its own review of hosting and access.