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 |companyname=Saudi-Ericsson
 |country=Saudi Arabia 
|location=Saudi Ericsson Communications Company Building, Sitteen Street, Riyadh 	11423  
 |business=
|website=http://www.saudiericsson.com/ericsson/English/UserPanel/Homepage.html
|aboutpage=http://www.saudiericsson.com/ERICSSON/English/OurCompany/AboutUs.html
 |founded=1980
 |phone=+01-478-5800 and +966 1-292-9600 
 |fax=+01-474-1527 and 	+966 1-292-9666 
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=== Background ===
"Saudi Ericsson is a private limited liability company (100% Saudi Company), founded in July 1, 1980 as a '''joint venture between E. A. Juffali & Brothers and L. M. Ericsson of Sweden'''. (It took over the activities of EPPCO, a pioneer in the supply of telecommunication systems in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia since 1964).

Saudi Ericsson is able to service its large customer base through a well established infrastructure of three main branches; Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam, supported by 400 professional employees.

Saudi Ericsson is committed to provide solutions, integrates systems and services and to shape them into profitable investment for our clients.

'''Saudi Ericsson supplies a complete range of communication products and services in eight major categories: Legacy, Mobile and IP-PABX Systems, Contact Center Application, Radio and Microwave Systems, Transport and Transmission Equipments, Data Communication, Wireless Mobility, Banking Trading Systems, Healthcare Nurse Call System and all associated required applications.'''

Saudi Ericsson's communications systems are '''found in major government departments''', leading hospitals, universities and private organizations throughout the Kingdom."
For more information: e-mail at: www.marketing@saudi-ericsson.com [http://uk.zawya.com/story/Saudi_Ericsson_to_exclusively_market_Sakhrs_ALLO_software_in_KSA-ZAWYA20050514085622/ Zawya]

* '''1980''': '''[http://www.saudiericsson.com/ERICSSON/English/OurCompany/AboutUs.html Saudi Ericsson]''' venture partnership 

"Saudi Ericsson is a partner to '''Ericsson, Aastra, CISCO and IPC among other brands''' in KSA. The company has installed hundreds of [http://www.tele-finity.com/LogFinityCallRecording.htm LogFinity] installations on top of these global PBXs vendors, from TDM to IP. LogFinity is also integrated with many other well known PBX vendors and telephony environment.  “We are happy to extend our relationship with Saudi Ericsson; '''Saudi Ericsson is a pioneer telecommunication systems supplier in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia since '''1964'''''' .” Said Waseem Al-Ghanem Founder and CEO of [http://www.tele-finity.com/Aboutus.htm TeleFinity].

=== Acquisitions, Mergers, Venture Partners ===

* '''2008''': “Our extended relationship with Saudi Ericsson, which dates to years ago, illustrates the trust our reliable products have gained in the regional market. “Al-Ghanem added. [http://www.tele-finity.com/ericssonpartnership.htm Tele-Finity]" [http://www.tele-finity.com/Aboutus.htm About TeleFinity].





=== Products ===

=== Countries using products ===

* Middle East

* North Africa

=== Reports ===


=== Tech & Business Partners ===

* '''2005''' "[http://sakhr.com/ Sakhr Software Co.], the pioneering Arabic IT company, announced that it has signed a contract with '''Saudi Ericsson whereby the Saudi-Swedish company will have exclusive marketing and selling rights''' throughout KSA of Sakhr ALLO software for inbound and outbound telephone calls using the latest speech technologies..." [http://uk.zawya.com/story/Saudi_Ericsson_to_exclusively_market_Sakhrs_ALLO_software_in_KSA-ZAWYA20050514085622/ Zawya] [http://www.ameinfo.com/69500.html About owner of Sakhr Sofware]

* '''2009''' [http://www.zawya.com/story/Aastra_Technologies_signs_Distributorship_agreement_with_SaudiEricsson_Communications_Company-ZAWYA20091213084331/ Aastra Technologies distributorship agreement]
"[http://www.aastra-mena.com Aastra Telecom] Middle East is the Middle East & North African business unit of Aastra Technologies Limited, (TSX:"AAH"), a leading company at the forefront of the enterprise communication market. '''Headquartered in Concord, Ontario, Canada''', Aastra develops and delivers innovative communications products and applications for businesses. Aastra's operations are truly global with more than 50 million installed lines around the world and a direct and indirect presence in more than 100 countries. Aastra is entirely dedicated to enterprise communications and offers one of the most complete portfolios of unified communications solutions individually tailored to satisfy its customers' requirements. These range from feature-rich call managers for small and medium businesses and highly scalable ones for large enterprises, integrated mobility, call centre solutions to a wide selection of terminals. With a strong focus on open standards, Aastra enables enterprises to communicate and collaborate more efficiently."

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* '''2009''' '''Aastra Technologies''' signs distributorship agreement with '''Saudi-Ericsson Communications''':  "Mr. Ramzi Louza, Managing Director of Saudi Ericsson, comments, "The relationship with Aastra will strengthen our portfolio of next generation products such as open standards-based (SIP) phones and telephony systems, video conferencing solutions and multimedia contact centers. '''We have been delivering high quality solutions and professional services to very demanding customers in the private and public sector for many years. We are now in a unique position to support the installed Ericsson systems by maintaining and upgrading them, and offering the customers a smooth migration path towards next generation technologies''' such as voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP), Unified Communications (UC) and Open Standards (SIP). We have chosen a vendor who focuses on enterprise communications and who has a strong financial track record of 45 consecutive positive quarter results, something crucial in the current economical situation."

"Aastra's Regional President for the Middle East and North Africa, Peter Hofman, concludes, "We believe that there is a big growth potential in the region and we are proud to have formed this business relationship with such a strong channel partner within Saudi Arabia. '''Saudi Ericsson has reached the highest certification level of 'Premium Distributor'''',..." [http://www.ameinfo.com/218608.html AMEinfo]

=== People Responsible ===

'''Board Members'''

* Khalid Ahmed Al-Juffali, Chairman & CEO 

'''Management Team'''

* Ramzi Louza, Managing Director of Saudi Ericsson


'''Investors'''

'''Major Shareholders'''

=== Other Info ===
'''IP & Servers'''