The company was founded in 1993 as a joint venture owned by Ericsson and Hewlett-Packard.
It was an independent, world-class provider of application software and services to telecom operators and has installed 450 operations support and business support systems in 65 countries.
[1] Set up by Hewlett-Packard and Ericsson to address the telecoms industries "huge technological challenge in the early 1990s: that of moving from memechanical to electronic switching platforms"...[2] The alliance was complex as the two companies had competing solutions.
EHPT's activities were consolidated into Ericsson's operations, effective September 4, 2001.
In 2003, Ericsson outsourced its IT to Hewlett-Packard which included managed services, help desk support, data center operations, and the HP Utility Data Center.