ERICSSON

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank is to provide an eight-year Euro 400 million loan to Swedish telecommunications equipment manufacturer Ericsson to fund R&D activities at its 'Centres of Excellence,' in the EU and central Europe. The money will pay for the development of improved management and operations of third generation mobile telephone networks, allowing the transmission of large data volumes at high speed.



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