Ericsson Nikola Tesla d.d. is the Croatian subsidiary of the Swedish telecommunications equipment manufacturer Ericsson. The company, named after the inventor Nikola Tesla was founded in 1949 as a state-owned enterprise. In 1953 it became a licensee for Ericsson, manufacturing and selling their phones in the local market and then a subsidiary upon its privatization in 1994. It is the largest provider of telecommunications products, solutions and services in the telecommunications, healthcare, intelligent transportation systems and enterprise fields in central and eastern Europe.
History
Ericsson Nikola Tesla traces its roots back to the state-owned Nikola Tesla Corporation founded in 1949 in Zagreb, FPR Yugoslavia. It was very successful in the local telecommunications market, and the regional markets, especially of Europe, for over forty years. It became a licence partner of Ericsson of Sweden in 1953, selling large volumes of Ericsson systems into the USSR and other markets from 1958.
In 1977, the company began making Ericsson AXE switches under licence.