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No wonder Swedish telecommunications giant Ericsson, (www.ericsson.com) with 100,000 employees in 140 countries and sales of $26.6 billion in 1999, has found a natural home here. Since 1992, the Montreal R&D center has landed four world research mandates worth $380.5 million. The center can hardly keep up with the growth; the company occupies four buildings along Montreal's Decarie Expressway. The cost of office space, the value of the Canadian dollar and the low manpower turnover have been deciding assets in the expansion of Ericsson in Quebec.
Ericsson engineers in Montreal are working on third-generation (3G) wireless systems that usher in the mobile Internet, accessible by wireless or palmtop. Ericsson engineers in Montreal have also developed the Bluetooth headset, based on short-range radio technology, which enables devices to communicate with each other, as well as the Chatboard, a 49-key miniature keyboard (the size of a business card) that snaps onto mobile phones.
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