The leading industry cluster within the Telecom Corridor® area is telecommunications.
This cluster includes:
- carriers/service providers
- telecom equipment manufacturers
- consulting firms
- wireless communications companies
- photonics/optics networking firm
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Major Richardson Telecom Companies
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AT&T Inc.
Significant operations at numerous locations in Richardson with 4,500 employees
- U-Verse Business Unit
- DSL Broadband Planning
- Network Operations Center
- Integration Services
- Customer Service
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Ericsson Division located at former two-building Nortel campus - 2,500 employees
- Communications equipment
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Fujitsu
Two Richardson divisions headquartered at the Fujitsu Telecom Parkway campus:
Fujitsu Network Communications
- 1,200 employees
- fiber optic transmission and IP broadband platforms
- IT and carrier-class telecommunications solutions for
North American Service Provider and Cable TV markets
Fujitsu Transaction Solutions
- 350 employees
- Solutions software for point-of-sale store technology
- U-Scan self-checkout systems
- Multi-vendor lifecycle services for retail customers
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Cisco Systems
2 divisions at E. Renner Road campus with 1,200 employees
- Photonics: Designs and develops optical networking, wireless,
IP telephony and other telecommunications solutions. - Cisco telecommunications HQ and data center
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Verizon
2 divisions with 2,250 employees in Richardson
- Verizon Business
- Wireless/Engineering
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Samsung Mobile
- US HQ with over 725 employees
- Researches, develops and markets telecommunications communications systems and products throughout North America.
Products include:
- Handheld cell phones
- Wireless infrastructure systems
- Analog and digital key phone systems and printers.
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MetroPCS
A start up in 2002, now with 6 million+ subscribers.
Moved its corporate HQ to Richardson in 2007 with 400+ employees.
- Wireless broadband personal communications services
- No long term contract, flat rate, unlimited usage
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