Network Society essentials

Creating freedom, empowerment and opportunity to transform industries and society while helping find solutions to some of the greatest challenges facing our planet. Get to know the Networked Society essentials.

In the Networked Society, connectivity will be the starting point for new ways of innovating, collaborating and socializing. It’s about creating freedom, empowerment and opportunity to transform industries and society while helping find solutions to some of the greatest challenges facing our planet.

It took 100 years to connect 1 billion places and only 25 years to connect 5 billion people. Today, 91 percent of the world’s communications, video dominates smartphone and tablet traffic, and in a few short years more than half the world’s population will benefit from LTE coverage*. So what does this mean for you?

The Networked Society is about new ways for us to collaborate, share and get informed. It’s about innovative ways of doing business and shaping the future together, as well as a renewed approach to global challenges such as education, healthcare, climate change and our use of natural resources.

Today, individuals and communities empowered by connectivity are driving fundamental change. Technologies such as broadband, mobility and the cloud are bringing us closer to our nearest and dearest and redefining established models for learning and education. Connectivity is transforming whole industries, creating new jobs and disrupting established business models. And by 2020, the Networked Society will have brought about significant economic, social and environmental progress to hundreds of millions of people.

Capturing opportunities In the Networked Society everyone, everything and everywhere will be connected in real time. Our role is to help capture the opportunities that arise as a result of these developments. Whether it is through solutions for mobile broadband, managed services, operations and business support systems or the cloud, our platforms are driving innovation and sparking new consumer and producer behaviors, functionalities and even new business models. As a leading ICT company, we will be a prime driver of transformation in the Networked Society.

Today, we are on the brink of an extraordinary revolution. A world that is connected in real time will place many new requirements on us while opening up opportunities beyond our imagination. Those mwho have the ability to rethink, reinvent and innovate will be winners in this new value-creating ecosystem.

When one person connects, their world changes. With everything connected, our world changes.

* Ericsson