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Ericpol Telecom is a Polish company operating in IT field. According to TOP 200, an IDG publishing report, Ericpol is the largest Polish producer of software to order and the second largest exporter in the IT sector in Poland. The company operates in telecommunications field and provides outsourcing and consulting services, software developement and testing, and systems intergrations. The headquarter is located in Łódź, branch offices in Kraków and Warszawa and the company has subsidiaries in Sweden (Linköping), Ukraine (Lviv) and Belarus (Brest). The Ericpol Group employs 800 people (in 2009).

History and development
Ericpol Telecom was founded in 1991 in Łódź. The first job consisted in testing telephone exchange monitoring software for Ericsson. Two years later ericpol's employees begun to participate in projects run by Ericsson's R&D departments outside Poland. In 1996, the second office was established in Kraków, and in 1998 the total number of staff exceeded one hundred. 2004 saw Ericpol set up the first foreign branch offices in Linköping, Sweden and Lvov, Ukraine. Today, Ericpol offices in Poland, Sweden, Ukraine and Belarus employ around 800 staff, including 600 engineers.

In Łódź, the company purchased an old factory (erected in the early 20th century) which was later revitalized and adapted into office space. In Krakow, Ericpol also acquired a tenement house on the Vistula river in the vicinity of Wawel Castle. The quality of the renovation works gained it a nomination for the Janusz Bogdanowski Award Additionally, the construction of Ericpol's new headquarters in Krakow Technology Park, (located in a special economic zone) is under way.

According to annual report of IDG publishing, "Computerworld TOP 200 – Polish ICT Market" Ericpol Telecom ranks:
 * 1st among software to orders producers;
 * 2nd among the largest IT solutions exporters;
 * 4th among largest companies in terms of revenue received from services for the telecommunications sector in Poland;
 * 11th among largest consulting companies in Poland

Main areas of business
Ericpol Telecom is primarily involved in cooperation with ICT infrastructure suppliers and telecommunications providers. It participates in the creation and testing of software for fixed, GSM and UMTS networks : Ericpol also operates in the automotive and medical industries.
 * software used in elements of core network
 * software designed for radio access networks (used in base transceiver stations and their controllers)
 * intelligent networks platform and services based on such a platform (e.g. prepaid services).
 * IP Multimedia Subsystem
 * Operations support systems platform - software for managing ICT infrastructure.

Ericpol is a member of the Parlay Group. The consortium specifies Parlay API, an interface which makes Internet server-based applications compatible with ICT infrastructure. Every year, Ericpol takes part in the GSMA Mobile World Congress. In 2007 the company ran their own exhibition stand, while its other solutions were incorporated in the products offered by BEA Systems (currently Oracle), Intel and Nortel. The key technological partner of Ericpol has been Ericsson – the largest supplier of ICT infrastructure in the world.