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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001193125-05-028836
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	S-8
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		4
FILED AS OF DATE:		20050214
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20050214
EFFECTIVENESS DATE:		20050214

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			ERICSSON LM TELEPHONE CO
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000717826
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	RADIO & TV BROADCASTING & COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT [3663]
		IRS NUMBER:				000000000
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			V7
		FISCAL YEAR END:			0630

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		S-8
		SEC ACT:		1933 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	333-122785
		FILM NUMBER:		05607776

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		TELEFONPLAN S
		CITY:			STOCKHOLM SWEDEN
		STATE:			V7
		ZIP:			126 25

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		S 126 25 STOCKHOLM
		CITY:			SWEDEN
		STATE:			V7
		ZIP:			0000

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	LM ERICSSON TELEPHONE CO
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19911030
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 14, 2005 </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Registration No. 333-<U>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</U>
</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><HR SIZE="3" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000" ALIGN="left"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="5"><B>SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="3"><B>WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><HR WIDTH="17%" SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="5"><B>FORM S-8 </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="5"><B>REGISTRATION STATEMENT </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="3"><B><I>UNDER </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="3"><B><I>THE SECURITIES ACT
OF 1933 </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><HR WIDTH="17%" SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="6"><B>TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="1"><B>(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter) </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="6"><B>LM ERICSSON TELEPHONE COMPANY </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>(Translation of Registrant&#146;s Name into English) </B></FONT></P> <P
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Kingdom of Sweden</B></FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Telefonplan, SE-126 25</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Stockholm, Sweden</B></FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>(State or Other Jurisdiction of</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Incorporation or Organization)</B></FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" NOWRAP ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>(Address of Principal Executive Offices Including Zip Code)</B></FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>(I.R.S. Employer Identification</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Number)</B></FONT></P></TD></TR>
</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><HR WIDTH="17%" SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>SONY ERICSSON 401(K) AND SAVINGS PLAN </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>(Full Title of the Plan) </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><HR WIDTH="17%" SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications (USA) Inc. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>General Counsel </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>7001 Development
Drive </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>(Name and Address of Agent For Service) </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><HR WIDTH="17%" SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(919) 472-6073 </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>(Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent For Service) </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><HR WIDTH="17%" SIZE="1" NOSHADE
COLOR="#000000"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Copies to: </I></B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Olof Clausson, Esq. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Latham &amp; Watkins </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>99 Bishopsgate
</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>London EC2M 3XF England </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><HR WIDTH="17%"
SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>to be Registered<SUP>(1) (2)</SUP></B></FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" NOWRAP ALIGN="center" STYLE="BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Proposed&nbsp;Maximum<BR>Offering Price<BR>Per Share<SUP>(4)</SUP></B></FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" NOWRAP ALIGN="center" STYLE="BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Proposed&nbsp;Maximum<BR>Aggregate<BR>Offering Price</B></FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>B Shares of Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, nominal value Swedish Kronor 1.00 each (&#147;Shares&#148;)</B></FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>1,000,000&nbsp;Shares</B></FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>$3.11</B></FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>$3,110,000.00</B></FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>$366.05</B></FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD WIDTH="4%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(1)</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In addition, pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the &#147;Securities Act&#148;), this Registration Statement on Form S-8 (this &#147;Registration
Statement&#148;) also covers an indeterminate amount of interests to be offered or sold pursuant to the employee benefit plan described herein. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="4%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(2)</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">American Depositary Shares (&#147;<B>ADSs</B>&#148;) evidenced by American Depositary Receipts, issuable on deposit of Shares, have been registered pursuant to a separate
registration statement on Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form F-6 (No. 333-11870) dated October 23, 2002. Each ADS represents ten Shares. <B></B> </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Plus such additional number of Shares as may be required pursuant to the employee benefit plan in the event of a stock split, stock dividend, recapitalization, reorganization,
merger, consolidation or other similar event. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="4%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(4)</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Estimated solely for the purposes of calculating the registration fee. Pursuant to Rule 457(h) of the Securities Act, the Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price Per Share is
based upon the average of the high and low price per ADS on the NASDAQ National Market System (&#147;<B>NASDAQ</B>&#148;) on February 9, 2005. Because each ADS represents ten Shares, the price of the ADS on NASDAQ has been divided by ten to
determine the price of a Share. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><HR SIZE="3" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000" ALIGN="left">

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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>INTRODUCTION
</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">This Registration Statement on Form S-8 is filed by
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, a limited liability company under the Swedish Companies Act (the &#147;Company&#148;), for purposes of allowing eligible employees of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications USA Inc., a 50%-owned joint venture of the
Company, to purchase, pursuant to the terms of the Sony Ericsson 401(k) and Savings Plan (the &#147;Plan&#148;), American Depositary Shares, or ADSs, representing ten Shares each and evidenced by American Depositary Receipts, through open market
purchases. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>PART I </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The documents containing the information specified in Part I of Form S-8 will
be sent or given to employees as specified by Rule 428(b)(1). Such documents need not be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#147;Commission&#148;) either as part of this Registration Statement or as prospectuses or prospectus
supplements pursuant to Rule 424. These documents and the documents incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement pursuant to Item 3 of Part II of Form S-8, taken together, constitute a prospectus that meets the requirements of Section
10(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the &#147;Securities Act&#148;). </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>PART II </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>INFORMATION
REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="9%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Item&nbsp;3.</B></FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Incorporation of Documents by Reference. </B></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The following documents that the Company has previously filed with the Commission are hereby incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement:
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<TD WIDTH="4%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">1.</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Company&#146;s annual report on Form 20-F filed on March 31, 2004 pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the &#147;Exchange Act&#148;);
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<TD WIDTH="4%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">2.</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">All other reports filed by the Company pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal year covered by Company&#146;s latest annual report
referred to in 1. above; and </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="4%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">3.</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The description of the Shares, contained in Amendment No. 3 to the Company&#146;s Registration Statement on Form F-3, dated August 5, 2002, which contains a description of the
Shares registered under Section 12 of the Exchange Act, except to the extent that such description has been superseded by the descriptions in &#147;Item 9, The Offer and Listing&#148; of the Form 20-F described in, and incorporated by reference by,
paragraph 1 above. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">All reports and other
documents that the Company subsequently files with the Commission pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14, or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment indicating that all of the securities offered under this
Registration Statement have been purchased or that deregisters the distribution of all such securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement from the date that the Company files such
report or document. Any statement contained in this Registration Statement or any report or document incorporated into this Registration Statement by reference, however, shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration
Statement to the extent that a statement contained in a subsequently dated report or document that is also considered part of this Registration Statement, or in any amendment to this Registration Statement, is inconsistent with such prior statement.
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Description of Securities. </B></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Inapplicable. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Interests of Named Experts and Counsel. </B></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Inapplicable. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Indemnification of Directors and Officers. </B></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Company has provided liability insurance coverage for each director and officer for certain losses arising from claims or changes made against them
while acting in their capacity as directors and officers of the Company. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="9%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Item&nbsp;7.</B></FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Exemption from Registration Claimed. </B></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Inapplicable. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>



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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Exhibits. </B></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Exhibit&nbsp;No.</B></FONT><BR><HR WIDTH="63" SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Description</B></FONT></P><HR WIDTH="61" SIZE="1" NOSHADE ALIGN="left" COLOR="#000000"></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">4.1</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Sony Ericsson 401(k) and Savings Plan</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">4.2</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Articles of Association of Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, Stockholm (Org. # 556016-0680) dated August 2004.</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">4.3</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Specimen certificate representing Non-restricted B Shares of Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of the Company&#146;s Registration Statement on Form F-1
(File No. 2-82969)).</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">4.4</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Form of certificate representing ADRs of Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (incorporated by reference to Exhibit A of Amendment No. 1 to the Company&#146;s Registration Statement on Form F-6
(File No. 2-82998)).</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">5.1</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In lieu of attaching an Internal Revenue Service (&#147;IRS&#148;) determination letter or opinion of counsel that the Plan is qualified under section 401 of the Internal Revenue Code, the
Registrant hereby undertakes to submit the Plan, and any amendments thereto, to the IRS in a timely manner, and will make all changes required by the IRS in order to qualify the Plan.</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">23.1</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers AB</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">24.1</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Power of Attorney (included as part of signature page)</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Undertakings. </B></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">A.<B> </B>The undersigned Company hereby undertakes: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement: (i) to
include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act, (ii) to reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of this Registration Statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof)
which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in this Registration Statement, and (iii) to include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in
this Registration Statement or any material change to such information in this Registration Statement, provided, however, that clauses (i) and (ii) do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those
clauses is contained in periodic reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the Company pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement; </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under
the Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide
offering thereof; and </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(3) To remove from
registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">B.<B> </B>The undersigned Company hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the
Company&#146;s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act that is incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and
the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">C. Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the
Company pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Company has been advised that in the opinion of the Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the
event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Company of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Company in the successful defense of any action, suit or
proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Company will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a
court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue. </FONT></P> <P
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the Company certifies
that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the Kingdom of
Sweden, on this 11</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><SUP>th</SUP></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"> day of February, 2005. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (publ)</B></FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" STYLE="BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center" STYLE="BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">/s/&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;K<SMALL>ARL</SMALL>-H<SMALL>ENRIK</SMALL>
S<SMALL>UNDSTROM&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</SMALL></FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">By:</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" STYLE="BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center" STYLE="BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">/s/&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;C<SMALL>ARL</SMALL> O<SMALL>LOV</SMALL>
B<SMALL>LOMQVIST&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</SMALL></FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Name:</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Karl-Henrik Sundstrom</B></FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Name:</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Carl Olov Blomqvist</B></FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Title:</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Chief Financial Officer</B></FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Title:</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>General Counsel</B></FONT></TD></TR>
</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Pursuant to the
requirements of the Securities Act, the Sony Ericsson 401(k) and Savings Plan has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Research Triangle Park, State of North
Carolina, on <U></U>February 11, 2005. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>SONY ERICSSON 401(K) AND SAVINGS PLAN</B></FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications (USA)</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Inc. &#150; Plan Administrator</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">By:</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" STYLE="BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center" STYLE="BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">/s/&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A. L<SMALL>EE</SMALL> H<SMALL>ILL&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</SMALL></FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Name:</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>A. Lee Hill</B></FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Chairman: Plan Administration Committee and Corporate Secretary</B></FONT></TD></TR>
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</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this
Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated. Each of the directors and/or officers of the Company whose signature appears below hereby appoints Carl Olov Blomqvist and Karl-Henrik
Sundstrom, and each of them severally as his or her attorney-in-fact and agent, each with full power of substitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and </FONT>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">stead, to sign his or her name and on his or her behalf, in any and all capacities stated below, and to file with the Commission any and all amendments
(including post-effective amendments) and supplements to this Registration Statement as appropriate, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, and generally to do all such things in their behalf in
their capacities as officers and directors to enable the Company to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act, and all requirements of the Commission. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Name and Signature</B></FONT></P><HR WIDTH="107" SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Title</B></FONT></P><HR WIDTH="26" SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Date</B></FONT></P><HR WIDTH="23" SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">/s/&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;M<SMALL>ICHAEL</SMALL> T<SMALL>RESCHOW&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</SMALL></FONT></P><HR SIZE="1"
NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Michael Treschow</B></FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Chairman of the Board</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">February 11, 2005</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">/s/&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A<SMALL>RNE</SMALL>
M<SMALL>&Aring;RTENSSON&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</SMALL></FONT></P><HR SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Arne
M&aring;rtensson</B></FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Deputy Chairman of the Board and Director</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">February 11, 2005</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">/s/&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;S<SMALL>IR</SMALL> P<SMALL>ETER</SMALL> L.
B<SMALL>ONFIELD&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</SMALL></FONT></P><HR SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Sir Peter
Bonfield</B></FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Director</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">February 11, 2005</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">/s/&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;C<SMALL>ARL</SMALL>-H<SMALL>ENRIC</SMALL>
S<SMALL>VANBERG&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</SMALL></FONT></P><HR SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Carl-Henric
Svanberg</B></FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">President &amp; CEO and Director (Principal Executive Officer)</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">February 11, 2005</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD HEIGHT="16" COLSPAN="2"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="16" COLSPAN="2"></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">/s/&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;K<SMALL>ARL</SMALL>-H<SMALL>ENRIK</SMALL>
S<SMALL>UNDSTROM&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</SMALL></FONT></P><HR SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Karl-Henrik
Sundstrom</B></FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer)</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">February 11, 2005</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD HEIGHT="16" COLSPAN="2"></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">/s/&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;E<SMALL>VA</SMALL>-B<SMALL>RITT</SMALL>
A<SMALL>LLENIUS&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</SMALL></FONT></P><HR SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Eva-Britt
Allenius</B></FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Chief Accounting Officer (Principal Accounting Officer)</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">February 11, 2005</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD HEIGHT="16" COLSPAN="2"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="16" COLSPAN="2"></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">/s/&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;J<SMALL>AN</SMALL> H<SMALL>EDLUND&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</SMALL></FONT></P><HR
SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Jan Hedlund</B></FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Employee Representative and Director</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">February 11, 2005</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD HEIGHT="16" COLSPAN="2"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="16" COLSPAN="2"></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">/s/&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;P<SMALL>ER</SMALL> L<SMALL>INDH&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</SMALL></FONT></P><HR
SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Per Lindh</B></FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Employee Representative and Director</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">February 11, 2005</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">/s/&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;S<SMALL>VERKER</SMALL>
M<SMALL>ARTIN</SMALL>-L<SMALL>&Ouml;F&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</SMALL></FONT></P><HR SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Sverker
Martin-L&ouml;f</B></FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Director</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">February 11, 2005</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD HEIGHT="16" COLSPAN="2"></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">/s/&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;E<SMALL>CKHARD</SMALL>
P<SMALL>FEIFFER&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</SMALL></FONT></P><HR SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Eckhard
Pfeiffer</B></FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Director</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">February 11, 2005</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD HEIGHT="16"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="16" COLSPAN="2"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="16" COLSPAN="2"></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">/s/&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;L<SMALL>ENA</SMALL> T<SMALL>ORELL&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</SMALL></FONT></P><HR
SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Lena Torell</B></FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Director</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">February 11, 2005</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD HEIGHT="16" COLSPAN="2"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="16" COLSPAN="2"></TD></TR>
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M<SMALL>C</SMALL>K<SMALL>INSTRY&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</SMALL></FONT></P><HR SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Nancy
McKinstry</B></FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Director</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">February 11, 2005</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD HEIGHT="16" COLSPAN="2"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="16" COLSPAN="2"></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">/s/&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;M<SMALL>ARCUS</SMALL>
W<SMALL>ALLENBERG&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</SMALL></FONT></P><HR SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Marcus
Wallenberg</B></FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Deputy Chairman of the Board and Director</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">February 11, 2005</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD HEIGHT="16" COLSPAN="2"></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">/s/&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;T<SMALL>ORBJ&Ouml;RN</SMALL>
N<SMALL>YMAN&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</SMALL></FONT></P><HR SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Torbj&ouml;rn
Nyman</B></FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Employee Representative and Director</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">February 11, 2005</FONT></TD></TR>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE
</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
registration statement has been signed below by the undersigned as the duly authorized representative of Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson in the United States on the 28</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"
COLOR="#000000"><SUP>th</SUP></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"> day of January, 2005. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><DIV ALIGN="right">
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center" STYLE="BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">/s/&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;J<SMALL>OHN</SMALL> M<SMALL>OORE&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</SMALL></FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>John Moore</B></FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Vice President and General Counsel, Ericsson Inc.</B></FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Exhibit&nbsp;No.</B></FONT><BR><HR WIDTH="63" SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Description</B></FONT></P><HR WIDTH="61" SIZE="1" NOSHADE ALIGN="left" COLOR="#000000"></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;4.1</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Sony Ericsson 401(k) and Savings Plan</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;4.2</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Articles of Association of Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, Stockholm (Org. # 556016-0680) dated August 2004.</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;4.3</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Specimen certificate representing Non-restricted B Shares of Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of the Company&#146;s Registration Statement on Form F-1
(File No. 2-82969)).</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;4.4</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Form of certificate representing ADRs of Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (incorporated by reference to Exhibit A of Amendment No. 1 to the Company&#146;s Registration Statement on Form F-6
(File No. 2-82998)).</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;5.1</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In lieu of attaching an Internal Revenue Service (&#147;IRS&#148;) determination letter or opinion of counsel that the Plan is qualified under section 401 of the Internal Revenue Code, the
Registrant hereby undertakes to submit the Plan, and any amendments thereto, to the IRS in a timely manner, and will make all changes required by the IRS in order to qualify the Plan.</FONT></TD></TR>
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</U></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>SONY ERICSSON 401(K) AND SAVINGS PLAN </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Effective as of September 1, 2004 </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
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SAVINGS PLAN </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Effective as of September 1, 2004
</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>TABLE OF CONTENTS </B></FONT></P> <P
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">HISTORY AND PURPOSE</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">1</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">DEFINITIONS</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">2</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">ADMINISTRATION</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">17</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">ELIGIBILITY FOR PARTICIPATION AND CONTRIBUTIONS AND ELECTIVE DEFERRALS BY PARTICIPANTS</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">CONTRIBUTION BY THE COMPANY</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">24</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">ACCOUNTS OF PARTICIPANTS - INVESTMENTS</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">29</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">WITHDRAWALS DURING EMPLOYMENT</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">TERMINATION OF SERVICE - PARTICIPANT VESTING</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">TIME AND METHOD OF PAYMENT OF BENEFITS</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">MISCELLANEOUS</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">TOP HEAVY PLAN PROVISIONS</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">EMPLOYER PARTICIPATION</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">59</FONT></TD></TR>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(i) </FONT></P>


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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><U>SONY ERICSSON 401(K)
AND SAVINGS PLAN </U></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Effective as of September 1, 2004
</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><U>HISTORY AND PURPOSE </U></B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Sony Ericsson 401(k) and Savings Plan (the &#147;Plan&#148;) was created
as a spinoff from the Ericsson Inc. Capital Accumulation and Savings Plan (the &#147;Ericsson Plan&#148;), effective as of September 1, 2004. The assets and liabilities spun-off from the Ericsson Plan were the assets and liabilities attributable to
(i) any participant in the Ericsson Plan who was an employee of the Company on October 1, 2001 and who was not at the time of the spinoff an employee of Ericsson Inc. (&#147;Ericsson&#148;) or an affiliate (other than the Company), and (ii) any
participant in the Ericsson Plan who was hired by the Company after October 1, 2001 and who was not at the time of the spinoff an employee of Ericsson or an affiliate (other than the Company). </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The purpose of the Plan is to encourage Eligible Employees to develop
individual initiative and thrift so as to provide additional security and income for their future through a systematic savings program. The Plan is intended to comply with ERISA and to be a qualified plan within the meaning of section 401(a) of the
Code, containing a cash or deferred arrangement described in section 401(k) of the Code, with the Plan assets to be held in a trust that is tax-exempt under section 501(a) of the Code. Moreover, this Plan is intended to be a stock bonus plan and,
pursuant to the requirements of Code Section 401(a)(27)(B), a profit-sharing plan as well. The Plan shall be interpreted, administered, and construed in accordance with these intents. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>DEFINITIONS </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>1.1 Definitions. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Whenever used in this Plan, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context: </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(a) Account. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Account shall mean the separate bookkeeping record maintained to record the
interest of Participants under the Plan. Each Participant shall have, if applicable, up to seven (7) subaccounts, (i) a Prior Plan Profit Sharing Account consisting of all discretionary non-matching employer contributions made under a Merged Plan,
together with the income, gain, losses and expenses allocated thereto and less distributions therefrom, (ii) a Company CAP Account (also called a Company Automatic Contribution Account) consisting of all Company CAP Contributions (also called
Company Automatic Contributions) made under the Plan and the Ericsson Plan and allocated to this subaccount, together with the income, gain, losses, and expenses allocated thereto and less distributions therefrom, (iii) an Employee CAP Account (also
called an Employee Pre-Tax Contribution Account) consisting of all Employee CAP Contributions (also called Employee Pre-Tax Contributions) and Catch-up Contributions under this Plan, the Ericsson Plan and the Prior CAP Plans, as well as elective
deferrals made under the Merged Plans, together with the income, gain, losses and expenses allocated thereto and less distributions therefrom, (iv) an Employee Savings Account (also called an Employee After-Tax Contribution Account) consisting of
all Employee Savings Contributions (also called Employee After-Tax Contributions) under this Plan, the Ericsson Plan and the Prior Savings Fund Plans, as well as any after-tax employee contributions made under the Merged Plans, together with the
income, gain, losses and expenses allocated thereto and less distributions therefrom, (v) a Company Match Account, consisting of all Company Matching Contributions made prior to January 1, 2001 under the Ericsson Plan, regular contributions under
the Prior CAP Plans and Company Contributions under the Prior Savings Fund Plans, as well as matching contributions made under the Merged Plans, together with the income, gain, losses and expenses allocated thereto and less distributions therefrom,
(vi) a Rollover Account consisting of all Rollover Contributions made to this Plan, the Ericsson Plan or a Merged Plan, together with the income, gain, losses and expenses allocated thereto and less distributions therefrom, and (vii) a Safe Harbor
Matching Account consisting of Matching Contributions made on or after January 1, 2001 to this Plan or the Ericsson Plan, together with the income, gain, losses and expenses allocated thereto and less distributions therefrom. With respect to
Participants&#146; Accounts, separate recordkeeping shall be maintained for each subaccount, but an actual segregation of Trust assets shall not be required. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(b) Accrued Benefit. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Accrued Benefit shall mean the amount allocated to a Participant&#146;s Account as of any date. </FONT></P> <P
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(c) Actual Contribution Percentage. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Actual Contribution Percentage shall mean for a specified group of Eligible Employees (who have satisfied the eligibility
requirements of Section 3.1) the average (arithmetic mean) of the ratios (calculated separately for each Eligible Employee in such group) of: (i) the amount of all Employee Savings Contributions actually contributed to the Trust by or on behalf of
such Employee and allocated to his Employee Savings Account for such Plan Year to (ii) the Employee&#146;s Considered Compensation for such Plan Year, such average of ratios being multiplied by one hundred (100). </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Committee may elect, to the extent permitted by Treasury Regulations, to
take into account Company CAP Contributions in computing the Actual Contribution Percentage and Employee CAP Contributions. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">For purposes of determining the Actual Contribution Percentage, Employee Savings Contributions, if any, must be allocated to the Employee&#146;s Savings
Account and must be funded before the last day of the twelve-month period immediately following the Plan Year to which such contributions relate. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If this Plan and one or more other plans are considered as one plan for purposes of Code section 401(a)(4) or 410(b) (other than Code section
410(b)(2)(A)(ii)), then the Actual Contribution Percentage shall be determined as if all such plans were a single plan. Similarly, if this Plan and another plan are permissively aggregated for purposes of Code section 401(m), the aggregated plans
must also satisfy Code sections 401(a)(4) and 410(b) as if they were a single plan. Plans may be aggregated only if they have the same plan year. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Moreover, if any Highly Compensated Employee is eligible to make Employee Savings Contributions under this Plan and one or more other plans of an
Employing Company or a Related Employer subject to Code section 401(m) (other than those which may not be permissively aggregated), then, for purposes of determining the Actual Contribution Percentage with respect to such Highly Compensated
Employee, all such plans shall be treated as one plan hereunder. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2"><B>(d) Alternate Payee.<U></U> </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Alternate Payee
shall mean any spouse, former spouse, child, or other dependent of a Participant who is recognized by a Domestic Relations Order as having a right to receive all, or a portion of, the benefits payable under the Plan with respect to such
Participant.<U></U> </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(e) Annual Addition.<U></U>
</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Annual Addition means the sum, for any calendar year,
of<U></U> </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(1) Company Matching Contributions,
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(2) Company CAP Contributions, </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(3) Employee CAP Contributions, </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(4) Employee Savings Contributions, and </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(5) forfeitures. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(f) Beneficiary. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Beneficiary means any person or fiduciary designated by a Participant who is or may become entitled to a benefit under the Plan following the death of the
Participant. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(g) Board. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Board means the Board of Directors of the Company.<U></U> </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(h) Catch-up Contributions. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Catch-up Contributions means amounts to be contributed by Employing
Companies and allocated to Participants&#146; Employee CAP Account in accordance with Section 3.5. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(i) Code. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Code means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as it has been and as it may be amended from time to time.<U></U> </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(j) Company. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Company means Sony Ericsson Mobile Telecommunications USA Inc., a Delaware
corporation, and any successor to such entity, whether by merger, purchase, or otherwise. The Company shall be the Plan sponsor.<U></U> </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(k) Company CAP Contributions.<U></U> </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Company CAP Contributions means amounts to be contributed by Employing Companies and allocated to Participants&#146; Company CAP Account in accordance
with Section 4.3.<U></U> </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(l) Company Matching
Contributions. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Company Matching Contributions means
amounts to be contributed by Employing Companies and allocated to Participants&#146; Safe Harbor Matching Account in accordance with Section 4.1. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(m) Compensation. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">For purposes of the Highly Compensated Employee, maximum Annual Addition, and Top Heavy rules, Compensation shall mean a Participant&#146;s wages,
salaries, and other amounts received for personal services actually rendered in the course of employment with an Employing Company or Related Employer as an Employee to the extent that the amounts are includible in gross income (including, but not
limited to, commissions paid salesmen, compensation for services on the basis of a percentage of profits, management incentives, overtime, shift premium, bonuses, fringe benefits, reimbursements, and expense allowances under a nonaccountable plan),
but excluding the following:<U></U> </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(1)
employer contributions to a plan of deferred compensation to the extent contributions are not included in gross income of the Participant for the taxable year in which contributed, or on behalf of the Participant to a Simplified Employee Pension
Plan to the extent such contributions are deductible under section 219(b)(7) of the Code, and any distributions from a plan of deferred compensation whether or not includable in the gross income of the Participant when distributed (except for
amounts received from an unfunded, nonqualified plan in the year such amounts are includible in the Participant&#146;s income); </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(2) amounts realized from the exercise of a non-qualified stock option, or when
restricted stock (or property) held by the Participant becomes freely transferable or is no longer subject to a substantial risk of forfeiture; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(3) amounts realized from the sale, exchange or other disposition of stock acquired under a qualified stock option; and </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(4) other amounts that receive special tax benefits, or
contributions made by the employer (whether or not under a salary reduction agreement) toward the purchase of a Code section 403(b) annuity contract (whether or not the contributions are excludable from the gross income of the Participant).
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">For purposes of the maximum Annual Addition rules in Section
9.11, Compensation, as defined above, taken into account for a calendar year, is the Compensation actually paid or made available to the Participant during such year. For the purposes of determining the identity and number of Highly Compensated
Employees and Key Employees, Compensation shall also include any elective deferrals (as that term is defined in Code section 402(g)(3)), any amounts excluded from gross income of an Employee under sections 125, 132(f)(4), 402(e)(3), 402(h)(1)(B),
403(b) and/or 457 of the Code, and any amounts that would be excluded from a Participant&#146;s gross income pursuant to Code section 125 but for the Participant&#146;s mandatory participation in the cafeteria plan sponsored by an Employing Company
(hereinafter referred to as &#147;Deemed 125 Compensation&#148;).<U></U> </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(n) Considered Compensation. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2">For purpose of determining the Actual Contribution Percentage, Considered Compensation shall mean, for a Plan Year compensation as defined in Code section 414(s) and the Treasury Regulations thereunder, as elected by the Company from time
to time from the various options available under such regulations, and pursuant to any rules and requirements as may be set forth in such regulations. To the extent permissible under such regulations, the Company may use different definitions of
Considered Compensation (i) for different nondiscrimination tests in the same Plan Year, and (ii) for the same nondiscrimination test from year to year. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In addition to other applicable limitations set forth in the Plan, and notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan to the contrary, the annual
Considered Compensation of each Employee taken into account under the Plan shall not exceed $200,000, or such larger amount that may be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury for purposes of Code section 401(a)(17)(A) pursuant to Code section
401(a)(17)(B). The cost-of-living adjustment in effect for a calendar year applies to any period, not exceeding 12 months, over which compensation is </FONT>
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">determined (determination period) beginning in such calendar year. If a determination period consists of fewer than 12 months, the annual compensation limit
will be multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of months in the determination period, and the denominator of which is 12. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Considered Compensation shall only include amounts actually paid an Employee during the period he is a Participant for services performed as an Eligible
Employee.<U></U> </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(o) Current Market Value. </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Current Market Value means the value reported by the Trustee as being the
fair market value at the specified date as determined by it according to its usual methods and procedures.<U></U> </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(p) Domestic Relations Order. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Domestic Relations Order shall mean any judgment, decree, or order (including one that approves a property settlement agreement) that relates to the
provision of child support, alimony payments, or marital property rights to a spouse, former spouse, child, or other dependent of a Participant and is rendered under a state (within the meaning of Code section 7701(a)(10)) domestic relations law
(including a community property law). </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(q) E-Flex Plan.
</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">E-Flex Plan means the Ericsson Flexible Benefits Plan or
such successor health and welfare benefits plan adopted and enacted by Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications (USA) Inc. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(r) Effective Date. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Effective Date means September 1, 2004, unless otherwise provided herein. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(s) Election. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Election means the permissible manner, method, and media by which Participants can make various choices available hereunder, as determined by the Plan
Administrator from time to time. Currently, Elections can be made through accessing and entering appropriate responses on the VRS, through the internet, or by filing an appropriate form with the Committee or its delegate, such as the Plan
recordkeeper, or the Company&#146;s Human Resources Department or Benefits Department. Certain Elections may be made through several of the above-described options, whereas other Elections may only be made through a single method and media, as
determined by the Plan Administrator from time to time. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(t)
Eligible Employee. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Eligible Employee means any regular
salaried or hourly person who shall be in the employ of any of the Employing Companies during such period as he meets all of the following conditions:<U></U> </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(1) he receives regular compensation in the form of a weekly, bi-weekly, semi-monthly or monthly salary paid on a United States
payroll; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(2) he is not in a unit of employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement or if
he is, an applicable collective bargaining agreement provides for the application of the Plan to the employees in such unit; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(3) he is not a part-time employee who is regularly credited with less than 1,000 Hours of Service in any 12-month computation period
commencing on his Employment Commencement Date or any anniversary thereof (provided that this restriction shall not apply once an employee earns 1,000 Hours of Service in any such computation period); </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(4) he is not a &#147;temporary employee&#148; hired for a
limited period of time or for a specific task, as determined by the Employing Company on a uniform and nondiscriminatory basis; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(5) he is not a nonresident alien with no United States source income; and </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(6) he is not a foreign contract employee on assignment in the U.S. pursuant to an assignment policy that
prohibits his participation in the Plan. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(u) Eligible
Salary. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Eligible Salary means the actual wages or salary
paid to a Participant for the Participant&#146;s personal service, including base pay, sales commissions, lump sum merit increase payments, overtime, shift differentials and on-call pay, but excluding management incentives or other incentive
payments, bonuses, gain-sharing payments, severance pay, or any other special payments, fees or allowances. Eligible Salary shall also include any amounts excluded from gross income of an Employee under Code sections 125, 132(f)(4), 402(e)(3),
402(h)(1)(B), 403(b) and/or 457, and Deemed 125 Compensation. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2">In addition to other applicable limitations set forth in the Plan, and notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan to the contrary, the annual Eligible Salary of each Employee taken into account under the Plan shall not exceed $200,000,
or such larger amount that may be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury for purposes of Code section 401(a)(17)(A) pursuant to Code section 401(a)(17)(B). The cost-of-living adjustment in effect for a calendar year applies to any period, not
exceeding 12 months, over which compensation is determined (determination period) beginning in such calendar year. If a determination period consists of fewer than 12 months, the annual compensation limit will be multiplied by a fraction, the
numerator of which is the number of months in the determination period, and the denominator of which is 12. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(v) Employee. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Employee means a common law employee of an Employing Company, as designated on the Employing Company&#146;s payroll records
(regardless of any recharacterization by a court or government agency). However, &#147;Employee&#148; does not include any person who is or is designated as a leased employee, leased owner, or leased manager.<U></U> </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(w) Employee CAP Contributions. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Employee CAP Contributions means reductions pursuant to a Salary Reduction
Agreement, in whole percentages from 1% through 50%, of a Participant&#146;s Eligible Salary, which amounts are transferred by the Employing Company to the Trustee of the Trust and allocated to the Participant&#146;s Employee CAP Account in
accordance with Section 3.4. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(x) Employee Savings
Contributions. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Employee Savings Contributions means
amounts contributed by Participants and allocated to their Employee Savings Account in accordance with Section 3.2.<U></U> </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(y) Employing Companies. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Employing Companies means the Company and each Subsidiary.<U></U> </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(z) Employment Commencement Date. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Employment Commencement Date means the date on which an Employee first performs an Hour of Service for an Employing Company.<U></U> </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(aa) Enrollment Period. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Enrollment Period means the periods designated by the Committee during which
new Participants may establish their rates of Employee Savings Contributions, Employee CAP Contributions and/or Catch-up Contributions, to be generally effective as of the first administratively feasible pay period following receipt of a valid
election from the Participant. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(bb) Ericsson ADRs.
</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Ericsson ADRs means non-restricted B Shares, nominal
value Skr 1, each represented by American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) of Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson, a Swedish limited liability company, deposited with Citibank, N.A. as depository.<U></U> </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(cc) Ericsson Plan. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Ericsson Plan means the Ericsson Inc. Capital Accumulation and Savings Plan. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(dd) ERISA. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">ERISA means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as it has
been and as it may be amended from time to time.<U></U> </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2"><B>(ee) Fiduciaries. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Fiduciaries means the
Board, the Company, the Trustee, and any Investment Manager appointed hereunder or under the Trust Agreement. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(ff) Forfeitures. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Forfeitures shall mean, with respect to a Plan Year, the aggregate amount of all Forfeiture Amounts that have ceased for such Plan Year to be part of
Participants&#146; Accrued Benefit, as provided in Section 7.4. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2"><B>(gg) Forfeiture Amount. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Forfeiture Amount
shall mean the portion of a Participant&#146;s Account that is not part of the Participant&#146;s vested Accrued Benefit upon the Participant&#146;s termination of service, determined in accordance with Section 7.2. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(hh) GE Plan. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#147;GE Plan&#148; means the GE Savings and Security Program, as maintained
by General Electric Company on December 31, 1989. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(ii)
Highly Compensated Employee. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Highly Compensated Employee
shall mean an Employee of an Employing Company or an employee of a Related Employer who performs services for the Employing Company or Related Employer during the current Plan Year for which Section 4.2 is being applied and either: </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(1) during the current Plan Year or the immediately
preceding Plan Year, was a 5% owner (within the meaning of Code section 414(q)(2)); or </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(2) during the Plan Year immediately preceding the current Plan Year, received Compensation in excess of $90,000 (or such larger amount
that may be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury for purposes of Code section 414(q)(1)(B)(i) pursuant to Code section 414(q)(1)), and during such prior Plan Year was also in the top 20% of Employees ranked by Compensation. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">For purposes of determining the number of employees in the group consisting
of the top twenty percent (20%) of employees, the employees described in section 414(q)(8) of the Code shall be excluded as provided in such Code section and in rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In addition, the term &#147;Highly Compensated Employee&#148; shall also include a former Employee who
incurred a severance from employment prior to the Determination Year (as hereinafter defined) and who was a Highly Compensated Employee for either (i) the year in which he incurred a severance from employment or (ii) any Determination Year ending on
or after the Employee&#146;s 55th birthday. For purposes of this Section, a &#147;Determination Year&#148; is the Plan Year for which a determination is being made of who is a Highly Compensated Employee. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(jj) Hours of Service. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Hours of Service shall mean the total number of hours for which the Employee
is either directly or indirectly compensated by or entitled to be compensated by, (i) the Employing Companies, (ii) any company that shall be or has been merged with, or whose assets or a majority of the stock of which, shall be or have been
acquired by any of the Employing Companies, (iii) any Related Employer, (iv) any other company if rendered at the written request of the Company, and (v) any entity designated as an affiliate by the Company, which shall in all events include
Ericsson Inc. and L M Ericsson, for performance of duties and for reasons other than the performance of duties. In addition, for all purposes of this Plan, service hereunder shall include service credited under the Prior Plans and the Merged Plans.
Furthermore, Hours of Service shall include regular time, overtime, vacation, holidays, sickness, disability, lay-off and similar paid periods, and shall also mean each hour for which back pay, irrespective of mitigation of damages, has been either
awarded or agreed to by the Employing Companies. Hours shall be calculated and credited pursuant to Section 2530.200b-2 of the Department of Labor Regulations that are incorporated herein by this reference. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(kk) Merged Plans. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Merged Plans shall mean, collectively, the following plans that were merged
into the Ericsson Plan: the Advanced Computer Communications, Inc. 401(k) Plan, the Ericsson IP Infrastructure, Inc. 401(k) Plan, the MPD Technologies, Inc. In-Vest Plan, and the EHPT, Inc. 401(k) Plan. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(ll) One Year Period of Severance. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">One Year Period of Severance means a twelve (12) consecutive month Period of
Severance. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(mm) Parental Absence. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Parental Absence shall mean any period of absence from the active service of
any Employing Company that commences: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(1) by
reason of the pregnancy of the Employee; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(2)
by reason of the birth of a child of the Employee; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2">(3) by reason of the placement of a child with the Employee in connection with the adoption of such child by the Employee; or </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(4) for purposes of caring for such child for a period beginning immediately following such birth or placement. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(nn) Partial Distribution </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">A Partial Distribution means the distribution of less than the Participant&#146;s entire vested Accrued Benefit. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(oo) Participant. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Participant means an Eligible Employee who has elected to participate or
otherwise qualified for participation in the Plan in accordance with Section 3.1. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(pp) Period of Service. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2">Period of Service shall mean the period of time commencing on an Employee&#146;s Employment Commencement Date or Reemployment Commencement Date, whichever is applicable, and ending on the date a Period of Severance commences. A Period of
Service shall also include a Period of Severance of less than twelve (12) consecutive months. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, in the case of an Employee who is absent from Service for reasons other than resignation, Retirement, or discharge,
and who terminates employment with the Employing Company because of resignation, Retirement, or discharge, Period of Service shall not include any Period of Severance commencing on the date such Employee so terminated employment with the Employing
Company and ending on the date such Employee is reemployed by the Employing Company if reemployment by the Employing Company does not occur within the twelve (12) month period commencing on the date such period of absence commenced. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">With respect to a Re-Employed Employee, his Period of Service prior to his
incurring a One Year Period of Severance shall be aggregated with his Period of Service commencing on his Reemployment Commencement Date. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Notwithstanding any provisions contained herein to the contrary, a period of service with a Related Employer that, had it been spent with the Employing
Company would have been a Period of Service pursuant to the above provisions of this Section, shall be considered a Period of Service with the Employing Company. All Periods of Service under the Prior Plans and Merged Plans shall be credited
hereunder. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(qq) Period of Severance. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Period of Severance shall mean a period of time commencing on an
Employee&#146;s Severance from Employment Date and ending on his Reemployment Commencement Date; provided, however, an Employee shall not be deemed to incur a Period of Severance for any period of absence occasioned by his voluntary or involuntary
induction into the armed forces of the United States (including the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, National Guard, and Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service, or such other categories as the President designates in time of war or
emergency) under such circumstances as give rise to his having reemployment rights protected by Federal law after discharge. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, a period of absence occasioned by an Employee&#146;s voluntary or involuntary
induction into the armed forces of the United States shall be deemed a Period of Severance, commencing on his Severance from Employment Date, unless such Employee returns to employment with the Employing Company within the time period required by
applicable Federal Law (including the </FONT>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994), and satisfies the conditions required by Federal law protecting his reemployment rights.
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, solely for
purposes of determining whether an Employee or Participant has incurred a One Year Period of Severance, the Severance from Employment Date of an Employee who is absent from Service beyond the first anniversary of the first date of absence by reason
of a Parental Absence is the second anniversary of the first date of such absence. The period between the first and second anniversaries of the first date of absence from work is neither a Period of Service nor a Period of Severance. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(rr) Plan. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Plan means the Sony Ericsson 401(k) and Savings Plan as set forth herein.
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(ss) Plan Administrator. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Plan Administrator means the Company, which shall delegate its duties to a
committee (&#147;Committee&#148;) of three or more persons designated by the Board to administer the Plan pursuant to the terms of Article II hereof. The Plan Administrator shall be a named fiduciary hereunder for purposes of ERISA. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(tt) Plan Year. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Plan Year means the calendar year. The first Plan Year shall be a short plan
year commencing on September 1, 2004 and ending on December 31, 2004. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2"><B>(uu) Prior Plans. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Prior Plans means the
Ericsson Inc. Capital Accumulation and Savings Plan (the &#147;Ericsson Plan&#148;), Ericsson Capital Accumulation Plan, Ericsson Salaried Savings Fund Plan, Ericsson GE Capital Accumulation Plan, and Ericsson GE Savings Fund Plan. The &#147;Prior
Savings Fund Plans&#148; means the Ericsson Salaried Savings Fund Plan and the Ericsson GE Savings Fund Plan, and the &#147;Prior CAP Plans&#148; means the Ericsson Capital Accumulation Plan and the Ericsson GE Capital Accumulation Plan. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(vv) Qualified Domestic Relations Order. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Qualified Domestic Relations Order shall mean a Domestic Relations Order
entered on or after January 1, 1985, that creates or recognizes the existence of an Alternative Payee&#146;s right to, or assigns to an Alternate Payee the right to, receive all or a portion of the benefits payable with respect to a Participant
under the Plan, does not require the Plan to provide any type or form of benefit, or any option, not otherwise provided under the Plan, does not require the Plan to provide increased benefits (determined on the basis of actuarial value), does not
require that the payment of benefits to an Alternate Payee that are required to be paid to another Alternate Payee under another order previously determined to be a Qualified Domestic Relations Order, and that clearly specifies: (i) the name and
last known mailing address (if any) of the Participant and the name and mailing address of each Alternate Payee covered by the order; (ii) the amount or percentage of the Participant&#146;s benefits to be paid by the Plan to each such Alternate
Payee, or the manner in which such amount or percentage is to be determined; (iii) the number of payments or payment period to which such order applies and (iv) specifically specifies that it is applicable with respect to this Plan. In the case of
any payment before a Participant has separated from Service, a Domestic Relations Order will not be treated as failing to be a Qualified Domestic Relations Order solely because such order requires the payment of benefits be made to an Alternate
Payee: (i) in the case of any payment before a Participant has separated from Service, on or after the date on which the Participant is entitled to a distribution under the Plan or on or after the later of the date the Participant attains age fifty
(50) or the earlier date on which the Participant could begin receiving benefits under the Plan if the Participant separated from Service, (ii) as if the Participant had retired on the date on which payment is to commence under such order (taking
into account only the present value of benefits actually accrued as of such date), and (iii) in any form in which such benefits may be paid under the Plan to the Participant (other than in the form of a joint and survivor annuity with respect to the
Alternate Payee and his or her subsequent spouse). In addition, to the extent permitted by ERISA and the Code, Plan benefits may be distributed to an Alternate Payee pursuant to a Qualified Domestic Relations Order at any time specified in the
Qualified Domestic Relations Order, including an immediate distribution, whether or not such distribution date is prior to (i) the earliest retirement age under the Plan, (ii) the Participant&#146;s separation from Service or other entitlement to a
distribution, or (iii) the Participant&#146;s attainment of age 50. Furthermore, the Committee shall treat any Domestic Relations Order entered prior to January 1, 1985, as a Qualified Domestic Relations Order if the Committee is paying benefits
pursuant to such order on such date, and the Committee may treat any other Domestic Relations Order entered prior to January 1, 1985, as a Qualified Domestic Relations Order even if such order does not satisfy the requirements of this Section.
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(ww) Re-Employed Employee. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Re-Employed Employee shall mean (i) an Employee who previously separated
from Service or service with a Related Employer with a nonforfeitable interest in his employer derived Accrued Benefit or (ii) an Employee who previously separated from Service or service with a Related Employer without a nonforfeitable interest in
his employer derived Accrued Benefit but who resumes Service or service with a Related Employer before his number of consecutive One Year Periods of Severance equals or exceeds the greater of (a) five (5) or (b) his number of Years of Service prior
to his separation from Service with an Employing Company or a Related Employer. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(xx) Reemployment Commencement Date. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Reemployment Commencement Date shall mean the date on which an Employee
first performs an Hour of Service for the Employing Company following a One Year Period of Severance. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(yy) Regulations. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Regulations means the rules and regulations adopted by the Committee in accordance with Section 2.1. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(zz) Related Employer. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Related Employer shall mean any business entity that is, along with an
Employing Company, (i) a member of a controlled group of corporations (as defined in section 414(b) of the Code, with such section, for purposes of Section 9.11, being modified pursuant to section 415(h) of the Code), (ii) a member of a group of
trades or businesses (whether or not incorporated) that are under common control (as defined by section 414(c) of the Code, with such section being modified, for purposes of Section 9.11, in accordance with section 415(h) of the Code), or (iii) a
member of an affiliated service group (as defined by section 414(m) of the Code). </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(aaa) Related Plan. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2">Related Plan shall refer to any defined contribution plan (as defined in section 415(k) of the Code) maintained by an Employing Company or any Related Employer. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(bbb) Required Commencement Date. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Required Commencement Date shall mean the April 1st of the calendar year following the later of the calendar year in which
the Participant attains age seventy and one-half (70-1/2) or the Participant retires. However, for a 5% owner, &#147;Required Commencement Date&#148; means the April 1st of the calendar year following the calendar year in which the Participant
attains age seventy and one-half (70-1/2). </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(ccc)
Retirement. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Retirement means, with respect to any
Participant, termination of employment with an Employing Company on or after the first to occur of (a) or (b) below where (a) is the later of (i) the Participant&#146;s 55th birthday or (ii) the date which he is credited with five (5) Years of
Service hereunder, and (b) is his 65th birthday, which birthday shall be his Normal Retirement Age hereunder. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(ddd) Rollover Contribution </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Rollover Contribution means a contribution representing all or part of an eligible rollover distribution within the meaning of Code section 402(c)(4)
received by an Employee from a pension or profit sharing plan meeting the requirements of Code section 401(a), a plan described in Code section 403(b), a governmental plan described in Code section 457, or an individual retirement account described
in Code section 408(a).<B></B> </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(eee) Salary Reduction Agreement. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Salary Reduction Agreement means an agreement entered into between the Participant and the Employing Company at a time, as
determined by the Company, in advance of such Participant&#146;s initial Employee CAP Contribution and/or Catch-up Contribution, by which the Participant agrees to accept a reduction in Eligible Salary from the Employing Company equal to any whole
percentage per payroll period, not to exceed the limits set forth in this Plan. Except as otherwise provided herein, this agreement shall remain in effect until changed or revoked as provided herein. In consideration of such agreement, the Employing
Company will transfer to the Participant&#146;s Employee CAP Account, as applicable, the amount of the Employee CAP Contribution or Catch-up Contribution, such transfer to be made at the end of each month or as soon thereafter as administratively
feasible. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(fff) Service. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Service shall mean any period of time the Employee is employed by an
Employing Company or a Related Employer, including (for up to one year) any period the Employee is on a leave of absence authorized by the Employing Company or a Related Employer under a uniform, nondiscriminatory policy applicable to all Employees.
Service shall also include any service credited under the Prior Plans and any Service credited under Section 7.3. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(ggg) Severance from Employment Date. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Severance from Employment Date shall mean the earlier of: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(1) The date on which an Employee terminates employment with the Employing Company because of resignation, Retirement, discharge, death,
or severance from employment; or </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(2) The
first anniversary of the first day of a period during which an Employee is absent from the Service of the Employing Company (with or without pay) for any reason other than resignation, Retirement, discharge, death, or severance from employment (such
as vacation, holiday, leave of absence or layoff). </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(hhh)
Sony Ericsson. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications (USA)
Inc. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(iii) Sony Ericsson Plan. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Sony Ericsson 401(k) and Savings Plan. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(jjj) Subsidiary. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Subsidiary means any corporation, partnership or other entity at least 5% of
whose voting shares or interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company, which the Board shall at any time designate as a Subsidiary for the purpose of the Plan, and which has adopted the Plan pursuant to the provisions of Article XI.
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(kkk) Total and Permanent Disability. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Total and Permanent Disability means that the Participant has been
determined to be disabled for purposes of the benefits offered under an Employing Company&#146;s long-term disability benefit plan. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(lll) Trust Fund. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Trust Fund means the fund that holds all of the assets of the Plan. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(mmm) Trust Transfer. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Trust Transfer shall mean any amount that is transferred directly to this Plan from another defined contribution plan in accordance with Code section
414(l).<B></B> </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(nnn) Trustee. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Trustee means the trustee or trustees selected by the Board or the Committee
in accordance with Section 9.3. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(ooo) U.S. Obligations.
</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">U.S. Obligations means obligations issued or fully
guaranteed as to payment of principal and interest by the United States of America or any agency thereof, and savings bank deposits to the extent they are fully guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(ppp) Valuation Date. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Valuation Date means each business day of the calendar year. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(qqq) VRS. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">VRS means the Voice Response System, which is an interactive computerized
telephone system whereby Participants may enroll in the Plan, make inquiries, effect Plan changes, and request distributions and withdrawal forms over the phone. Access to the VRS requires a Personal Identification Number. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(rrr) Year of Service. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Year of Service means a twelve (12) month Period of Service. Service earned
under the Prior Plans shall also be credited as Service hereunder. However, notwithstanding the above, in the case of an Employee who separates from Service and later resumes Service, but not as a Re-Employed Employee, Years of Service credited to
the Employee for Service performed prior to his reemployment shall be disregarded. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>ADMINISTRATION </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>2.1 Regulations. </B>The Committee shall have the power to adopt such rules and
regulations as it shall deem necessary or desirable for the administration of the Plan, and to alter, amend or revoke any Regulations so adopted. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(a) The Fiduciaries shall have only those specific powers, duties, responsibilities and obligations as are specifically given them under this Plan. The
Employing Companies shall have the sole responsibility for making the contributions required by Article IV. Except as otherwise provided herein or as delegated by the Board, the Board shall have the sole authority to appoint and remove any Trustee
and members of the Committee, and to amend or terminate, in whole or part, this Plan or any trust established to fund benefits under this Plan. The Company, acting through the Committee appointed hereunder, shall be the Plan Administrator for
purposes of ERISA and, except as otherwise provided herein or as delegated by the Committee, the Committee shall have the sole responsibility for the administration of this Plan. Any Trustee shall have the sole responsibility for the administration
and management of any funds held by it. Each Fiduciary may rely upon any written direction, information or action of any other Fiduciary with respect to matters within the responsibility of such other Fiduciary as being proper under this Plan or any
related agreement, and is not required under this Plan to inquire into the propriety of any such direction, information or action. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(b) The general administration of the Plan and the responsibility for carrying out its provisions shall be placed in a Committee of not fewer than three
persons (any of whom may be, but none of whom need be, a member of the Board) appointed from time to time by the Board to serve at the pleasure of the Board. No person shall be ineligible to be a member of the Committee because he is, was or may
become a Participant in the Plan. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(c) The Committee shall
elect a chairman from among its members and a Secretary who may be but need not be a member of the Committee; may appoint such other committees with such powers as it shall determine; authorize one or more of the members of the Committee or any
agent to execute or deliver any instrument or make any payment on its behalf; and may retain counsel, employ agents, and may provide for such accounting and clerical services as may be required in carrying out the provisions of the Plan. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(d) The Committee shall hold meetings upon such notice, at such place or
places, and at such time or times, as it may from time to time determine. Two-thirds of the number of the members of the Committee at the time in office shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. All resolutions adopted or other
action taken by the Committee shall be by vote of a majority of the members of the Committee present at any meeting or without a meeting by instrument in writing signed by a majority of the members of the Committee. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(e) No member of the Committee shall have any rights to vote or decide upon
any matter relating solely to himself or solely to any of his rights or benefits under the Plan. No employee of any of the Employing Companies shall receive compensation for services as a member of the Committee. Members of the Committee who are not
employees of any of the Employing Companies shall receive such compensation for their services as the Board may determine. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(f) The Committee shall have full fiduciary discretion and authority to interpret and construe the
provisions and terms of the Plan, to resolve or otherwise decide matters not specifically covered by such provisions or terms, to make all determinations (including underlying factual determinations), to decide all questions of eligibility and
benefits, and to adjudicate all claims and appeals. The determination of the Committee in all such cases shall be final and binding upon all persons, unless such determination is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to have been arbitrary and
capricious. The Committee may also delegate any of its powers, duties, and responsibilities to one or more Committee members, or other agents or delegates. The Committee furthermore shall have the ability to determine which, if any, investment
options shall be made available to Participants from time to time for the investment of their Accounts, in accordance with Article V. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(g) Withdrawals may be requested either through the VRS, via the internet or the Company&#146;s Human Resources or Benefits Department. Requests for most
withdrawals may be submitted to the Plan recordkeeper. However, all applications for hardship withdrawals shall be submitted to the Committee or its designee. Applications for hardship withdrawals must be in writing on the forms provided by the
Committee (or its designee) and must be signed by the Participant or in the case of a distribution payable by reason of death, by the beneficiary or legal representative of the deceased Participant. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Each application shall be approved or disapproved and the applicant notified
of the decision within 90 days following its receipt thereof. If additional time is needed to process the claim, the applicant will be notified in writing of an extension, the circumstances that require the extension and the time period in which the
Committee or its designee expects to make a determination. This notice will be provided within 90 days after the claim is received. In the case of an extension, a determination on the claim will be made and the applicant notified of the decision no
later than 180 days after the claim is received. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If the
applicant&#146;s claim is denied in whole or in part, the Committee or its designee will notify the claimant in writing of the specific reasons for the decision. The denial notice will also include the following information: (i) references to the
specific Plan provision(s) upon which the decision was based; (ii) a description of any additional material or information necessary for the applicant to perfect his claim and an explanation of why such material or information is necessary; (iii) a
description of the Plan&#146;s appeal procedures and the applicable time limits; and (iv) a statement of the applicant&#146;s right to bring a civil action under ERISA section 502(a) following an adverse decision on appeal. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If a claim is denied in whole or in part, the applicant or his authorized
representative has up to sixty (60) days after receipt of the denial notice to appeal the decision to the Committee. All appeals must be submitted in writing. For purposes of these procedures, an applicant will be deemed to have received a written
notice from the Committee or its designee: (i) the date such notice is delivered in person, (ii) the date delivery is confirmed by the United States Postal Service or other commercial delivery service, (iii) or 3 days after the date the notice is
mailed to the applicant&#146;s last know address on file with the Plan, unless it can be shown to the Committee&#146;s satisfaction that a notice was in fact received at a later time. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In connection with an appeal, the applicant may submit written comments, documents, records, and other information with
respect to his claim, regardless of whether or not such information was considered in connection with the initial benefits determination. Upon written </FONT>
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">request and free of charge, the applicant will be provided reasonable access to and copies of all documents, records and other information relevant to his
claim for benefits. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Committee will fully and fairly review
each appeal, taking into account any additional information submitted in connection with the appeal. Deference will not be afforded to any prior benefits decision. The Committee&#146;s decision on a claimant&#146;s appeal for benefits and any
matters related to such appeal shall be final and binding upon all persons, unless such decision is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to have been arbitrary and capricious. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The claimant will be notified no later than 5 days after the next regularly scheduled Committee meeting following receipt of
his appeal of the Committee&#146;s final decision. Provided, however, if the appeal is received within 30 days of the next regularly scheduled Committee meeting, the claimant will be notified of the Committee&#146;s final decision no later than 5
days after the second regularly scheduled Committee meeting following receipt of the appeal. If special circumstances necessitate additional time to make a benefits decision, the claimant will be notified in writing of an extension prior to the
commencement of the extension. The extension notice will set forth the special circumstances that necessitate the extension and the date by which the Committee expect to make a benefits determination. In the case of an extension, the claimant will
be notified of the Committee&#146;s final decision no later than 5 days after the third regularly scheduled Committee meeting following receipt of the appeal. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If the claimant&#146;s appeal is denied in whole or in part, he will be notified in writing of the specific reasons for the decision. The denial notice
will also include the following information: (i) references to the specific Plan provision(s) upon which the decision was based; (ii) a statement that, upon written request and free of charge, the claimant will be provided reasonable access to and
copies of all documents, records and other information relevant to his claim for benefits; and (iii) a statement of the claimant&#146;s right to bring a civil action under ERISA section 502(a). </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(h) The Company shall indemnify and hold harmless the members of the
Committee, and each of them, and any employee of the Company acting on behalf of the Committee, from the effects and consequences of their acts, omissions and conduct in their capacity as members of the Committee, or an employee acting on behalf of
the Committee, except to the extent that such effects and consequences shall result from the individual&#146;s own gross negligence or willful misconduct. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
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ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>ELIGIBILITY FOR PARTICIPATION AND </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>CONTRIBUTIONS AND ELECTIVE DEFERRALS BY
PARTICIPANTS </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>3.1 Participant </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(a) Eligible Employees shall become Participants in the Plan as of the first
pay period after becoming an Eligible Employee. An Eligible Employee may commence Employee CAP Contributions, Catch-up Contributions, and Employee Savings Contributions and qualify for Company Matching Contributions by making a request via the Voice
Response System (&#147;VRS&#148;), the internet or such manner as may be prescribed by the Committee, and within the applicable </FONT>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Enrollment Period as the Committee shall require for authorizing payroll deductions and/or salary reductions from his Eligible Salary. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">For newly hired Eligible Employees, the Enrollment Period deadline shall be
such time as established by the Committee, with the effective date of Employee CAP Contributions, Catch-up Contributions and/or Employee Savings Contributions being the first administratively feasible pay period following the Eligible
Employee&#146;s enrollment. Payroll deductions or salary reductions shall not be taken retroactively. Elections received after the applicable deadline will be processed and become effective as of the next administratively feasible pay period.
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(b) When an employee is transferred from an employee group of
any of the Employing Companies or a Related Employer that is not eligible for participation in the Plan to an employee group of any Employing Company that is eligible for participation in the Plan, the employee shall commence participation in the
Plan effective as of his transfer date if he meets the requirements for becoming an Eligible Employee. He may also commence Employee CAP, Employee Savings Contributions and/or Catch-up Contributions by making an appropriate Election in accordance
with the procedures specified in Section 3.1(a) for new hires. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2">(c) If a Participant under the Plan is transferred to an employee group of any of the Employing Companies or a Related Employer that is not eligible for participation in the Plan, such transfer shall not be considered a termination of
employment for purposes of Section 8.1 and all amounts otherwise distributable shall not be distributed, unless the Participant elects an in-service withdrawal pursuant to Article VI and files an appropriate Election, but otherwise shall be held as
if subject to the provisions of Section 8.3; however, all Employee Savings Contributions, Employee CAP Contributions, Company CAP Contributions, and Company Matching Contributions with respect to such former Participant shall thereupon cease. In
addition, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, to the extent required by applicable law, no distribution shall occur prior to the time specified in Section 8.11. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Subject to the restrictions of Section 8.5, withdrawal shall take place, if it has not taken place earlier, when the former
Participant ceases to be an employee of any of the Employing Companies or a Related Employer. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(d) In the case of an Employee who separates from Service and who resumes Service, but not as a Re-Employed Employee, Periods of Service credited to such Employee for Service performed prior to his resumption of
Service shall be disregarded. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(e) A Re-Employed Employee who
is an Eligible Employee shall reenter the Plan as a Participant: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(1) if he was a Participant prior to his separation from Service, the day he performs his first Hour of Service as a result of his return to Service (or as soon thereafter as administratively feasible), or </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(2) if he was not a Participant prior to his separation
from Service, on the first day of any payroll period after again becoming an Eligible Employee (assuming timely submission of enrollment information). </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Any other Employee whose Service terminates and who is subsequently re-employed shall commence
participation in accordance with the provisions of Sections 3.1(a). </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>3.2
Employee Savings Contributions. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(a) Subject to Section
4.2, an Eligible Employee may make an Election within the applicable Enrollment Period to pay into the Plan through payroll deductions authorized by him, and allocated to his Employee Savings Account, an aggregate amount that is either 1%, 2%, 3%,
4% or 5% of his Eligible Salary (such amount being herein referred to as &#147;Employee Savings Contributions&#148; and sometimes referred to as &#147;savings&#148; or &#147;employee savings&#148;). In the absence of a new Employee Savings Election,
current Elections shall automatically remain in effect. Employee Savings Contributions shall be paid to the Trustee by the Employing Company as soon as administratively feasible following the payroll deduction. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(b) A Participant may change his percentage of Eligible Salary to be deducted
at any time by making an appropriate Election, to take effect as of the first day of the following pay period (or as soon thereafter as administratively practicable). In addition, a Participant may, by making an appropriate Election, discontinue
deductions for savings at any time, in which event he may resume such deductions at any time in the future, subject to the limits set for in subsection (a) above. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>3.3 Rollover Contributions and Trust Transfers. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Plan may receive Rollover Contributions or Trust Transfers on behalf of an Employee. Receipt of a Rollover Contribution
or Trust Transfer shall be subject to the approval of the Plan Administrator or its designee. Before approving the receipt of a Rollover Contribution or Trust Transfer, the Plan Administrator or its designee may request any documents or other
information from the Employee or opinions of counsel that the Plan Administrator or its designee deems necessary to establish that such amount is a Rollover Contribution or Trust Transfer. Rollover Contributions and Trust Transfers will be subject
to such procedures and restrictions that may be adopted by the Administrator or its designee from time to time. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">An Account shall be maintained on behalf of each Employee from whom a Rollover Contribution and/or Trust Transfer is received, regardless of such
Employee&#146;s eligibility to participate in the Plan in accordance with the requirements of Section 3.1. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Rollover Contributions and Trust Transfers received from an Employee who is not otherwise eligible to participate in the Plan may not be withdrawn in
accordance with the provisions of Article VI nor shall such Employee be eligible for a loan under Section 6.4 until such Employee becomes a Participant, except that such Employee may receive a distribution of his Participant&#146;s Account upon
severance from employment. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Rollover Contributions and Trust
Transfers shall be credited to the Participant&#146;s Account and may be invested in any manner authorized under the provisions of this Plan. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Plan will not accept a Trust Transfer from a defined benefit plan or money purchase pension plan (including a target benefit plan), or from a stock
bonus or profit sharing plan which provides for a Life Annuity form of payment to the Participant, from an annuity contract </FONT>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">described in Code section 403(b), from an eligible deferred compensation plan described in Code section 457, or from any other plan subject to Code section
417. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>3.4 Employee CAP Contributions. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Within an applicable Enrollment Period each Participant may enter into a
Salary Reduction Agreement with the Employing Company providing for Employee CAP Contributions commencing the next administratively feasible pay period, at a rate equal to any whole percentage from 1% to 50% of the Participant&#146;s Eligible
Salary, but in no event shall such Employee CAP Contributions, together with any other elective deferrals, within the meaning of Code section 402(g)(3), under any qualified plan sponsored by an Employing Company or a Related Employer, exceed the
401(k) Ceiling for the Plan Year. The &#147;401(k) Ceiling&#148; shall mean the following: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(a) $13,000 for the Plan Year beginning on September 1, 2004 (and including any Employee CAP Contributions to the Ericsson Plan during the period from January 1, 2004 through August 31, 2004); </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(b) $14,000 for the Plan Year beginning on January 1, 2005; and </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(c) $15,000 (or such larger amount as may be determined by the Secretary
of the Treasury for purposes of Code section 402(g)(1) pursuant to Code section 402(g)(4)) for Plan Years beginning on or after January 1, 2006. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Employee CAP Contributions shall be paid to the Trustee by the Employing Company as soon as administratively feasible following the payroll deduction. In
the absence of a new Salary Reduction Agreement, a Participant&#146;s current Salary Reduction Agreement shall automatically remain in effect. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>3.5 Catch-up Contributions. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Any Participant who is eligible to make Employee CAP Contributions pursuant to Section 3.4 above who will attain age 50 by the end of any Plan Year and
who elects to have the maximum Employee CAP Contributions made on his behalf for the Plan Year determined pursuant to Sections 3.04 and 9.11, may elect to defer up to 20% of his Eligible Salary (but not including any unused Benefit Dollars
transferred from the E-Flex Plan) up to the Applicable Dollar Amount in effect for the Plan Year and have the Employing Company contribute the same to the Plan as a Catch-up Contribution. A Participant&#146;s Catch-up Contribution election shall be
made at the same time and in the same manner for electing Employee CAP Contributions under Section 3.4. For purposes of this section, the &#147;Applicable Dollar Amount&#148; shall mean: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(a) $3,000 for the Plan Year beginning on September 1, 2004 (and including any Catch-up Contributions to the Ericsson Plan
during the period from January 1, 2004 through August 31, 2004); </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2">(b) $4,000 for the Plan Year beginning on January 1, 2005; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(c) $5,000 (or such larger amount as may be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury for purposes of
Code section 414(v)(2)(B) pursuant to Code section 414(v)(2)(C)) for Plan Years beginning on or after January 1, 2006. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Catch-up Contributions shall not be taken into account for purposes of the 401(k) Ceiling under Section 3.4 or the limitations on contributions under
section 9.11. The Plan shall not be treated as a Top Heavy Plan under Section 10.2 by reason of the making of such Catch-up Contributions for any Plan Year. Notwithstanding the foregoing, only amounts contributed to the Plan by the Employer on
behalf of an Employee that are in excess of the applicable limits under Sections 3.4 or 9.11 for the Plan Year shall be treated as Catch-up Contributions for the Plan Year. Catch-up Contributions shall not be eligible for Matching Contributions.
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>3.6 Change of Future Employee CAP Contributions and Catch-up Contributions
by Participants. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">A Participant may change his Salary
Reduction Agreement with respect to his rate of Employee CAP Contributions or Catch-up Contributions at any time by making an appropriate Election, to be effective as of the first day of the following pay period (or as soon thereafter as
administratively practicable). </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In addition, by making an
appropriate Election, a Participant may suspend his Salary Reduction Agreement at any time, in which case he may reinstate his Agreement and recommence Employee CAP Contributions or Catch-up Contributions at any time. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>3.7 Distribution of Excess Deferrals. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(a) If a Participant is required to include in his gross income for a
taxable year elective deferrals (as defined in Code section 402(g)(3)) that exceed the 401(k) Ceiling (hereinafter referred to as &#147;Taxable Deferrals&#148;) and the Participant is eligible but has not elected and made the maximum Catch-up
Contributions pursuant to Section 3.5 for the Plan Year, to the maximum extent possible, such Taxable Deferrals shall be recharacterized as Catch-up Contributions for the Plan Year. To the extent such Taxable Deferrals cannot be so recharacterized,
the excess (hereinafter referred to as &#147;Excess Deferrals&#148;) shall be distributed to the Participant in accordance with the Participant&#146;s instructions. Not later than the first March 1 following the close of the taxable year in which
the Excess Deferrals were made, the Participant shall notify the Committee of whether and to what extent the Participant has allocated any of the Participant&#146;s Excess Deferrals to this Plan. If such allocation is made, the Committee shall
distribute to such Participant such excess deferral allocated to this Plan, adjusted for any income or losses allocable to such amount for the Plan Year in question not later than the first April 15 following the taxable year in which the Excess
Deferrals were made. Moreover, any excess deferrals arising solely by virtue of this Plan and any other plan or arrangement of an Employing Company or a Related Employer shall automatically be distributed on or before the time periods specified
above, and in such cases the Participant shall be deemed to have designated such distributions. Any distribution made pursuant to this Section 3.7 may be made notwithstanding any other provision of this Plan. Notwithstanding the distribution of
Excess Deferrals, except to the extent provided by Treasury regulations, such Excess Deferrals shall nevertheless be taken into account in determining a Highly Compensated Employee&#146;s Actual Deferral Percentage hereunder. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(b) No Company Matching Contributions shall be made on any Employee CAP Contributions that are
subsequently recharacterized as Catch-up Contributions or refunded under this Section 3.7. In the event Company Matching Contributions have previously been made on such amounts prior to their recharacterization or distribution, such Company Matching
Contributions (plus earnings thereon) shall be forfeited and used to reduce future Company Matching Contributions and/or Company CAP Contributions, or pay Plan administration expenses. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>3.8 Special Rules For Participants Returning From Military Leave. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">To the extent required by applicable federal law, including the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of
1994, if a uniformed services employee returns to employment after cumulative military service of up to 5 years and qualifies for reemployment under such applicable federal law, then the returning employee (to the extent he would otherwise qualify
for participation hereunder) shall have the right to make up contributions missed while he was on military leave, including Employee Savings Contributions, Employee CAP Contributions and Catch-up Contributions, and the Employing Company shall
contribute whatever Company CAP Contributions and Company Matching Contributions that such employee would have otherwise been entitled to. The employee must contribute any such make-up contributions within the lesser of (a) 3 times the period of his
military service, or (b) 5 years. However, the employee shall have no right to share in any Forfeiture allocations occurring during his period of military service. Likewise, no earning or losses shall be credited to his Account until the
contributions are actually made. Contributions shall be based on the Eligible Salary the employee would have earned if he had not entered the military, or, if that determination is not reasonably certain, the Eligible Salary earned during the
12-month period prior to entering the military. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>ARTICLE IV
</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>CONTRIBUTION BY THE COMPANY </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>4.1 Company Matching Contributions. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(a) Amount. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Subject to the deduction limits of Code section 404 and the maximum annual
additions limits of Code section 415, the Employing Companies shall contribute to the Plan a Company Matching Contribution, equal to the lesser of (i) 100% of the amount of each Participant&#146;s combined Employee CAP Contributions and Employee
Savings Contributions paid into the Plan for each pay period, or (ii) 3% of each Participant&#146;s Eligible Salary for such pay period. The Company shall furthermore make a Company Matching Contribution equal to 50% of the amount of each
participant&#146;s combined Employee CAP Contributions and Employee Savings Contributions paid into the Plan for each pay period in excess of 3% of such Participant&#146;s Eligible Salary up to 1% of each Participant&#146;s Eligible Salary for such
pay period. Employer Matching Contributions to be made with respect to each pay period shall be made to the Trust not later than the last day of the calendar quarter following the calendar quarter in which the pay period with respect to which such
Company Matching Contributions are being made ended. Additionally, subject to the limitations stated above, for each Participant whose total Company Matching Contribution for the Plan Year was limited to less than 4% of Eligible Salary for the
</FONT>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">entire Plan Year by virtue of the Code section 401(a)(17) or 402(g) limits being reached before Plan Year end, the Employing Companies shall contribute for
each such Participant an additional &#147;true up&#148; Company Matching Contribution as soon as administratively feasible following the end of each Plan Year (to be allocated to such Participant&#146;s account as of the last day of such prior Plan
Year) equal to the difference between (i) the lesser of (x) 100% of such Participant&#146;s combined Employee CAP Contributions (other than unused Benefit Dollars transferred from the E-Flex Plan, which will not be matched) and Employee Savings
Contributions for the Plan Year (up to 3% of such Participant&#146;s Eligible Salary) and 50% of any amount of such contributions in excess of 3% of such Participant&#146;s Eligible Salary, and (y) 4% of such Participant&#146;s Eligible Salary for
the Plan Year, and (ii) the amount of Company Matching Contributions previously allocated to such Participant&#146;s Account for such Plan Year. &#147;True up&#148; Company Matching Contributions will be invested in the Investment Elections that are
current at the time the &#147;true up&#148; contributions are made, and at the cost per unit of each investment on the date the Participant&#146;s Account is updated by the recordkeeper to reflect the &#147;true up&#148; contribution amount. In no
event will adjustments to the &#147;true up&#148; contribution be made to reflect any changes in investment performance which occur prior to the date such &#147;true up&#148; Company Matching Contribution is actually made. The Employing
Companies&#146; contribution shall be subject to credits for any Forfeitures, which shall be used to reduce the Company Matching Contributions otherwise required under this Section 4.1. Company Matching Contributions shall be transferred to the
Trustee in cash. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(b) Allocations. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">All Company Matching Contributions made under the Plan and the Ericsson Plan
(but only with respect to Plan Years beginning on or after January 1, 2001), shall be allocated to a Participant&#146;s Safe Harbor Matching Account. Company Matching Contributions made under the Ericsson Plan with respect to Plan Years beginning on
or before December 31, 2000, are allocated to a Participant&#146;s Company Match Account. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(c) Characteristics of Company Matching Contributions. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Company Matching Contributions allocated to a Participant&#146;s Safe Harbor Matching Account shall be one hundred percent (100%) vested at all times, and such contributions and the earnings (or losses) therein shall
be subject to the withdrawal restrictions set forth in Section 6.1(f). In addition, all Participants who are Employees on or after the Effective Date (on or after January 1, 2001 with respect to the Ericsson Plan), shall be fully vested in all
amounts credited to their Company Matching Account. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2">Notwithstanding the forgoing, if a Participant is not an Employee on or after the Effective Date (January 1, 2001 with respect to the Ericsson Plan), Company Matching Contributions allocated to the Participant&#146;s Company Matching
Account made under the Ericsson Plan with respect to Plan Years beginning on or before December 31, 2000, shall be subject to the vesting schedule set forth in Section 7.2 and the normal withdrawal and distribution rules governing Company
Contributions other than Company CAP Contributions. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>4.2 Limitations on Employee Savings Contributions. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(a) Limitations. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3.2, the Actual Contribution Percentage for the Highly Compensated Employees with respect to any Plan Year shall
not exceed the greater of (1) or (2): </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(1) The
Actual Contribution Percentage for the Plan Year for the Eligible Employees who are not Highly Compensated Employees multiplied by 1.25 or </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(2) The Actual Contribution Percentage for the Plan Year for the Eligible Employees who are not Highly Compensated Employees multiplied by
2.0; provided, however, that the Actual Contribution Percentage for the Highly Compensated Employees for a Plan Year may not exceed the Actual Contribution Percentage for the Plan Year for the Eligible Employees who are not Highly Compensated
Employees by more than two (2) percentage points. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(b)
Adjustments for Excess Contributions. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(1)
<U>General Rules</U>. If at any time during or at the end of a Plan Year the Actual Contribution Percentage for the Highly Compensated Employees would exceed, if not adjusted in accordance with the limitations of this Section, the amounts allowed
under Section 4.2(a), the &#147;Total Excess Contributions&#148; (hereinafter defined) for the Plan Year shall be eliminated by the Committee refunding Employee Savings Contributions allocated to the Highly Compensated Employee&#146;s Employee
Savings Account <U>plus</U> earnings (or less losses) thereon for the Plan Year pursuant to the rules specified below, until the Actual Contribution Percentage for the Highly Compensated Employees equals (by rounding up) the greater of (1) or (2) of
Section 4.2(a). &#147;Total Excess Contributions&#148; shall mean, with respect to the Plan Year, the excess of (i) the aggregate amount of Employee Savings Contributions (and any other contributions used in determining the Actual Contribution
Percentage) actually paid over to the Trust on behalf of Highly Compensated Employees for such Plan Year, over (ii) the maximum amount of such Employee Savings Contributions (and any other contributions used in determining the Actual Contribution
Percentage) permitted under the limitations of Section 4.2(a), as calculated under the leveling method specified in section 4.2(b)(3). Employee Savings Contributions distributed pursuant to this Section shall nonetheless be counted as Annual
Additions for purposes of Code section 415. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2">(2) <U>Ordering Method</U>. Refund or reduction of the Total Excess Contributions shall be made in the following order and in accordance with sections 401(a)(4) and 401(m) of the Code (and regulations thereunder): </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(A) <U>Refund of Unmatched Employee Savings
Contributions</U>. Any Employee Savings Contributions made by Highly Compensated Employees during the Plan Year which are not matched by Company Matching Contributions in accordance with Section 4.1 (plus earnings or less losses thereon as specified
in Section 4.2(c) below) that constitute a portion of the Total Excess Contributions shall be refunded (according to the leveling method specified below) to such Highly Compensated Employees by the Trustee within the time period specified in Section
4.2(b)(3) below, until either (i) the amount refunded equals the Total Excess Contributions, or (ii) all such contributions are refunded. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(B) <U>Refund of Matched Employee Savings Contributions</U>. If, after the refunds in
accordance with the preceding paragraph (A), an amount equal to the Total Excess Contributions has not been refunded, the Committee shall eliminate all remaining Total Excess Contributions by refunding (on an equal dollar-for-dollar basis, until the
Total Excess Contribution has been eliminated according to the leveling method specified below) the portion of each Highly Compensated Employee&#146;s Employee Savings Contributions that constitute excess contributions and <U>are</U> matched in
accordance with Section 4.1. Such refund (plus earnings or less losses thereon as specified in Section 4.2(c) below) shall be distributed by the Trustee to the applicable Highly Compensated Employees within the time period specified in Section
4.2(b)(3) below. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(3) <U>Leveling Method</U>.
The total amount of excess contributions to be refunded to or forfeited by Highly Compensated Employees under Section 4.2(b)(2) above is to be determined by the following leveling method, under which the Actual Contribution Percentage of the Highly
Compensated Employee with the highest Actual Contribution Percentage is reduced to the extent required to (i) enable the Plan to satisfy the limitations of Section 4.2(a) or (ii) cause such Highly Compensated Employee&#146;s Actual Contribution
Percentage to equal the Actual Contribution Percentage of the Highly Compensated Employee with the next highest Actual Contribution Percentage, whichever occurs first. This process must be repeated until the Plan satisfies the limitations of Section
4.2(a). The aggregate of such excess contributions shall equal the &#147;Total Excess Contributions.&#148; All refunds and/or forfeitures from a Participant&#146;s Employee Savings Account shall be charged first against Employee Savings
Contributions for the calendar year that includes the first day of the Plan Year, and then, to the extent necessary, charged against Employee Savings Contributions for the calendar year that includes the last day of the Plan Year. All refunds shall
be distributed by the Trustee to the appropriate Highly Compensated Employee (or forfeited by such Employee, as appropriate) within two and one-half months after the close of the Plan Year in which such excess contribution arose, if administratively
feasible, and within twelve months after the close of such Plan Year, at the latest. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Total Excess Contributions identified by application of the preceding paragraph shall be refunded to individual Highly Compensated
Employees under Section 4.2(b) on the basis of the actual dollar amount of contributions by such Highly Compensated Employees, starting with the Highly Compensated Employee with the highest actual dollar amount of contributions and reducing his
contributions until it is equal to the Highly Compensated Employee with the next highest dollar amount of Contributions, and then repeating this process until all of the Total Excess Contribution has been accounted for in accordance with Code
section 401(m)(6)(C) and the regulations promulgated thereunder. Once the refunds are made pursuant to this section, the limitations of Section 4.2(a) shall be deemed satisfied, regardless of whether the Actual Contribution Percentage, if
recalculated after such distributions, would satisfy such limitations. The Company shall maintain records to demonstrate compliance with the provisions of this Section 4.2. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(c) Determination of Earnings and Losses for Plan Year. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The earnings or losses allocable to excess Employee Savings Contributions
for the applicable Plan Year shall be determined by multiplying the total income (or loss) allocable to the Participant&#146;s Employee Savings Account for the applicable Plan Year by a fraction, the numerator of which is the excess Employee Savings
Contribution on behalf of the Participant for the applicable Plan Year and the denominator of which is the sum of the Participant&#146;s Employee Savings Account as of the first day of the applicable Plan Year plus the Employee Savings Contributions
for the Plan Year. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>4.3 Company CAP Contributions. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(a) <U>Regular</U>. In addition to the Company Matching Contributions, to
the extent permitted under Code Section 415 and to the extent deductible under Code Section 404, the Employing Companies shall contribute to the Plan and allocate to each Participant&#146;s Company CAP Account during each Plan Year a Company CAP
Contribution as follows: with respect to each of its Eligible Employees who is a Participant, the percentage of such Participant&#146;s Eligible Salary determined in accordance with the following schedule: </FONT></P> <P
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<TD WIDTH="50%"></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2%"></TD>
<TD WIDTH="48%"></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Age at the<BR>Beginning of the Month</B></FONT></P><HR WIDTH="130" SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Contribution</B></FONT></P><HR WIDTH="68" SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">under 40</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">3.5%</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">40 &#151; 49</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;4%</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">50 &#151; 54</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;7%</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">55 and over</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">10%</FONT></TD></TR>
</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Unless the Committee
in its discretion determines otherwise, Company CAP Contributions will be allocated to eligible Participants&#146; Accounts each pay period and will be determined based on their ages at the beginning of the month during which the pay period occurs.
The Employing Companies&#146; Company CAP Contributions shall be paid to the Trustee as soon as administratively feasible.<B></B> </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>4.4 Return of Company Contributions. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Notwithstanding any provision herein to the contrary, upon an Employing Company&#146;s request, a contribution which was
made upon a mistake of fact, conditioned upon initial qualification of the Plan, or conditioned upon deductibility of the contribution under section 404 of the Code shall be returned to the Employing Company within one year after payment of the
contribution, denial of the initial qualification, or disallowance of the deduction (to the extent disallowed), as the case may be; provided, however, the amount returned shall be the excess of the amount contributed over the amount which would have
been contributed if there had been no mistake of fact or a mistake in determining the amount of the deduction. Any earnings on the excess contribution amount shall not be returned to the Employing Company, although any losses thereon will reduce the
amount so returned. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>ARTICLE V </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>ACCOUNTS OF PARTICIPANTS - INVESTMENTS </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>5.1 Investment Options. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(a) General </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Except as provided in Section 5.2, all Plan assets shall be invested in one or more of the investment funds established by the Committee from time to
time. Each Participant shall elect, in any whole percentage, the investment fund(s) in which the Plan assets allocated to all of his subaccounts are to be invested. The election shall apply to all amounts held in all subaccounts, such that each
subaccount is invested in a like manner. A Participant may elect any combination of available investment funds as long as the election totals one hundred percent (100%). In the absence of a valid election, all undirected funds shall automatically be
invested in the default investment fund as designated by the Committee from time to time. The Committee from time to time shall select the investment options available for investment in accordance with Section 2.1(f). </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(b) L M Ericsson Stock Fund. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In addition to the investment funds designated under subsection (a) above,
there shall also be an L M Ericsson Stock Fund available for investment. This Fund invests solely in Ericsson American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), which represent non-restricted Class B shares of Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson, a limited liability
company under the Swedish Companies Act, which is the parent company of Ericsson&#146;s U.S. operations. The ADRs are currently traded on the over-the-counter market with price quotations reported on the NASDAQ National Market System under the
symbol ERICY. <B></B> </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>5.2 Self-Directed Accounts. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In addition to the funds designated by the Committee from time to time in
accordance with Section 5.1, the Committee furthermore may make a self-directed brokerage account available to Participants. Such account shall be established with a broker designated or approved by the Committee. A Participant&#146;s utilization of
such self-directed account shall be subject to the rules of such broker, the exchange upon which the investments held in such account are traded, </FONT>
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">rules and restrictions concerning permissible investments established by the Committee from time to time, and any other applicable laws, rules and
regulations. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>5.3 Investment of Contributions. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Each Participant may select from among the investment options made available
pursuant to Section 5.1 or 5.2 by making an appropriate Election upon becoming a Participant. Such elections may be changed, with respect to future contributions, at any time, to be effective with the next contribution after the Participant&#146;s
change Election is confirmed. In this regard, contributions are currently transferred to the Trustee as soon as administratively feasible following the applicable pay period, and are credited to the Participants&#146; Account as soon as
administratively feasible thereafter. In the absence of any valid investment Election being on file, contributions shall automatically be invested in the default fund as designated by the Committee from time to time. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>5.4 Investment Transfers. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Subject to all of the other provisions herein contained and any special
rules adopted by the Committee with respect to certain investment funds which, by their nature, require special treatment or are subject to particular requirements, and subject to any applicable securities law or other legal restrictions, each
Participant may elect at any time to have the assets in any or all investment fund(s), in any whole percentage, transferred to any one or more other investment fund(s) designated or made available by the Committee pursuant to Sections 5.1 or 5.2, in
any whole percentages totaling 100 percent of the transferred funds, by making an appropriate Election, to be effective as soon as administratively feasible after the request is received and processed. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>5.5 Transfer of Assets Among Investment Funds. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Committee or its delegate shall direct the Trustee to transfer monies or
other property among the appropriate investment options as may be necessary to reflect the aggregate investment elections of Participants after the necessary entries have been made in the Participants&#146; Accounts. All investments shall be held in
the name of the Trustee or its nominees. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>5.6 L M Ericsson Stock.
</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(a) Accounting for ADRs by Trustee. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Trustee shall acquire Ericsson ADRs pursuant to Participants&#146;
elections under Section 5.1. All Ericsson ADRs shall be carried by the Trustee at the actual cost thereof, including taxes, brokerage fees and commissions, if any, incident to the purchase, except that ADRs in respect of which cash is being
distributed and which are accordingly being retained as Trust assets shall be deemed to have been purchased by the Trustee at their current fair market value on the Valuation Date applicable to such distribution. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(b) Restriction on Ericsson ADR Acquisition. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, it is specifically provided that
the Trustee shall not purchase Ericsson ADRs during any period in which such purchase is restricted by any </FONT>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">law or regulation applicable thereto. During such period, amounts that would otherwise be invested in Ericsson ADRs shall be invested in such other assets as
the Trustee may in its discretion determine, or the Trustee may hold such amounts uninvested for a reasonable period pending the designated investment.<U></U> </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(c) Stock Rights, Stock Splits, and Stock Dividends. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">No Participant, former Participant or Beneficiary shall have any right of request, direction, or demand upon the Committee or the Trustee to exercise
in his behalf rights or privileges to acquire, convert into, or exchange for Ericsson ADRs or other securities. The Trustee, in its discretion, may exercise or sell any such rights or privileges. The separate Accounts shall be appropriately
credited. Ericsson ADRs received by reason of a stock split, stock dividend or recapitalization shall be appropriately allocated to the separate Accounts of the affected Participant, former Participant, or Beneficiary.<U></U> </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>5.7 Valuation. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">From time to time throughout the Plan Year, as agreed upon between the Committee and Trustee, the Trustee shall prepare or
cause to be prepared a statement of the condition of the Trust Fund, setting forth all investments, receipts, and disbursements, and other transactions effected by it during the period subsequent to the last Trust statement, and showing all the
assets of the Trust Fund and the cost and fair market value thereof. This statement shall be delivered to the Committee. The Trustee&#146;s determination of the fair market value of the assets of the Trust Fund and the Committee&#146;s charges or
credits to Accounts shall be final and conclusive on all persons ever interested hereunder, subject to Section 2.1(g) hereof. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>5.8 Equitable Allocations. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If the Committee determines in making any valuation, allocation, or adding interest or earnings to any Account under the provisions of the Plan that the
strict application of the provisions of the Plan will not produce an equitable and nondiscriminatory allocation among the Accounts of the Participants, it may modify any procedure specified in the Plan for the purpose of achieving an equitable and
nondiscriminatory allocation in accordance with the general concepts of the Plan; provided, however, that any such modification shall not reduce the Participant&#146;s vested Accrued Benefit and shall be consistent with the provisions of section
401(a)(4) of the Code and ERISA. If the Committee in good faith determines that certain expenses of administration paid by the Trustee during the Plan Year under consideration are not general, ordinary, and usual and should not equitably be borne by
all Participants, but should be borne only by one or more Participants, for whom or because of whom such specific expenses were incurred, the net earnings and adjustments in value of the Accounts shall be increased by the amounts of such expenses,
and the Committee shall make suitable adjustments by debiting the particular Account or Accounts of such one or more Participants, former Participants, or Beneficiaries; provided, however, that any such adjustment must be nondiscriminatory and
consistent with the provisions of section 401(a) of the Code and ERISA. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>5.9
Allocation Does Not Create Rights. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">No Participant or
Beneficiary shall acquire any right to or interest in any specific asset of the Trust as a result of the allocations provided for in the Plan. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>WITHDRAWALS DURING EMPLOYMENT </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>6.1 In-Service Withdrawals from Employee Savings Account, Rollover Account and Company
Match Account. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(a) Normal Withdrawals. </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">A Participant may at any time, upon such notice as the Committee may from
time to time prescribe, withdraw any and all of his vested Accrued Benefit attributable to his Employee Savings Account, Rollover Account and/or Company Match Account; provided that (except with respect to the Rollover Account), the funds to be
withdrawn have been allocated to such subaccounts (or to his applicable subaccounts in the Prior Plans) for at least two (2) full calendar years. Any withdrawals shall occur in the following order of priority: (i) pre 1987 Employee Savings
Contributions; (ii) the remainder of the assets allocated to the Participant&#146;s Employee Savings Account; (iii) the Participant&#146;s Rollover Account; and (iv) the Participant&#146;s Company Match Account. Withdrawals shall be taken pro rata
from each applicable investment fund. No withdrawals may be taken from the self-directed brokerage account or the loan fund. No repayments of withdrawals are permitted. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(b) Hardship Withdrawals. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In addition to the withdrawals permitted under Section 6.1(a), a Participant may withdraw the funds in his Employee Savings Account (including
earnings) upon the incurrence of a financial hardship, even if such funds have been in his subaccount for less than two (2) calendar years. However, a Participant must first obtain all normal withdrawals available under Section 6.1(a) and loans
under Section 6.4 before he may obtain a hardship withdrawal under this Section 6.1(b) (and must first obtain all hardship withdrawals available under this Section 6.1(b) before he may obtain any hardship withdrawals of Employee CAP Contributions
under Section 6.2). However, if a Participant makes a hardship withdrawal under this Section 6.1(b), he must suspend all further Employee Savings Contributions and Employee CAP Contributions until the first payday of the first calendar quarter
following six (6) months after such hardship withdrawal. Thereafter, a Participant may resume his Employee Savings Contributions and Employee CAP Contributions, provided that a proper Election is made on or before the 15th day of the month preceding
such calendar quarter.<U></U> </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(c) Determination of
Hardship. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">A Participant&#146;s request for a hardship
withdrawal under Section 6.1(b) and Section 6.2 shall be accompanied by such application forms, documentation and/or written representations or explanations of the hardship as the Committee may require. The Committee, in accordance with
nondiscriminatory and objective standards, shall authorize a withdrawal on account of financial hardship only upon making a written determination that (i) such withdrawal is necessary in light of immediate and heavy financial needs of the
Participant (as determined in accordance with Section 6.2(d) of the Plan), (ii) the amount to be withdrawn does not exceed the amount required to meet the immediate financial need created by the hardship, grossed up for any federal, state, or local
income taxes or penalties reasonably anticipated to result from the distribution, and (iii) the amounts to be withdrawn are not reasonably available from other resources of the Participant. </FONT>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">For purposes of this Article VI, the Participant&#146;s resources are deemed to include those assets of his spouse and minor children that are reasonably
available to the Participant, but does not include property held for the Participant&#146;s child under an irrevocable trust or under the Uniform Gifts to Minors Act.<U></U> </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(d) Valuation and Payment of Withdrawal. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">For purposes of making an in-service withdrawal under this Section 6.1, a Participant&#146;s Account shall be valued as of
the Valuation Date on which his application for withdrawal is processed. Payment shall be made as soon as administratively feasible following the processing of such withdrawal request and any necessary settlement of transactions. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(e) Allocation of Withdrawal for Tax Purposes. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Amounts withdrawn from the Participant&#146;s Employee Savings Account
pursuant to this Section or otherwise under the Plan shall be withdrawn first from the Participant&#146;s Employee Savings Account, excluding earnings, made prior to January 1, 1987, then from his Employee Savings Account, including earnings, made
after December 31, 1986, and, finally, from earnings on his Employee Savings Contributions made prior to January 1, 1987.&#148; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Hardship distributions and other in-service withdrawals shall be taken <U>pro</U> <U>rata</U> from all investment funds in which the Participant&#146;s
Account is invested. In addition, no withdrawals may be made from the self-directed brokerage account or the loan fund. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Notwithstanding the foregoing, Company Matching Contributions made to the Plan or the Ericsson Plan for Plan Years beginning on or after January 1, 2001
(<U>i.e.</U>, allocated to a Participant&#146;s Safe-Harbor Matching Account under the Plan or the Ericsson Plan) shall not be distributed from the Plan, except in the event of a Participant&#146;s death, Disability or severance from employment, his
attainment of age 59&#189;, or upon the occurrence of a plan termination that meets the requirements of Code section 401(k)(10).<U></U> </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>6.2 In-Service Withdrawals of Employee CAP and Catch-up Contributions. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(a) Application. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">After (or concurrently with) withdrawing all amounts available under Section 6.1 (concerning normal withdrawals from the Employee Savings Account,
Rollover Account and Company Match Account and hardship withdrawals of Employee Savings Contributions), a Participant may request that amounts held in the remainder of his Accounts (except for any amounts allocated to the Company CAP Account and the
Safe Harbor Matching Account), including earnings credited to such Accounts (as limited below), be paid to the Participant due to financial hardship. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">A Participant&#146;s request for a hardship withdrawal hereunder shall be accompanied by such application forms, documentation and/or written
representations or explanations of the hardship as the Committee may require. The Committee, in accordance with nondiscriminatory and objective standards, shall authorize a withdrawal on account of financial hardship only upon making a determination
that (i) such withdrawal is necessary in light of immediate and heavy financial needs of the Participant (as determined in accordance with Section 6.2(d)), (ii) the </FONT>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">amount to be withdrawn does not exceed the amount required to meet the immediate financial need created by the hardship, grossed up for any federal, state,
or local income taxes or penalties reasonably anticipated to result from the distribution, and (iii) the amounts to be withdrawn are not reasonably available from other resources of the Participant. For purposes of this Article VI, the
Participant&#146;s resources are deemed to include those assets of his spouse and minor children that are reasonably available to the Participant, but does not include property held for the Participant&#146;s child under an irrevocable trust or
under the Uniform Gifts to Minors Act. No hardship withdrawals may be made from earnings on Employee CAP Contributions or Catch-up Contributions that accrued after December 31, 1988. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(b) Valuation and Payment of Withdrawal. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">For purposes of making an in-service withdrawal under this Section 6.2, following the Committee&#146;s favorable
determination, a Participant&#146;s Account shall be valued as of the Valuation Date on which his application for withdrawal is processed. Payment shall be made in a single lump sum as soon as administratively feasible following the processing of
such withdrawal request. A hardship withdrawal shall not cause a termination of participation in the Plan. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(c) Penalty for Withdrawal. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Upon the approval of a hardship withdrawal under this Section 6.2, a Participant&#146;s Salary Reduction Agreement (and therefore his ability to make
Employee CAP Contributions and Employee Savings Contributions) shall be automatically suspended. A Participant can elect to reinstate his Salary Reduction Agreement and resume his Employee CAP Contributions and/or Employee Savings Contributions as
of any payday following six (6) months after such suspension, provided that a proper Election is made. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(d) Immediate and Heavy Financial Need. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The determination of whether a Participant has an immediate and heavy financial need shall be based on the criteria specified in Section 6.2(a) and shall
be made by the Committee or its designee in accordance with nondiscriminatory and objective standards and on the basis of all relevant facts and circumstances. However, a Participant will be deemed to have an immediate and heavy financial need if
the basis for withdrawal is on account of: (i) medical expenses described in section 213(d) of the Code incurred by the Participant, the Participant&#146;s spouse, or any dependent(s) of the Participant (as defined in section 152 of the Code), or
necessary for those persons to obtain such medical care; (ii) purchase of a principal residence (excluding mortgage payments) for the Participant; (iii) payment of tuition and related fees for the next twelve (12) months of post-secondary education
for the Participant, his or her spouse, children, or dependents; (iv) the need to prevent eviction of the Participant from his or her principal residence or foreclosure on the mortgage of the Participant&#146;s principal residence; or (v) such other
events as may be determined by the Internal Revenue Service. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2"><B>(e) Lack of Other Resources. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In satisfying
the requirement that the Participant lack other reasonably available resources with which to meet his immediate and heavy financial need, the Committee may rely upon reasonable written representations by the Participant (unless the Committee has
actual knowledge to the contrary) that the need cannot otherwise be satisfied by: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(1) Reimbursement or compensation by insurance, or otherwise; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(2) Reasonable liquidation of the Participant&#146;s assets to the extent the liquidation
would not itself cause an immediate and heavy financial need; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(3) The cessation of Employee CAP Contributions or Employee Savings Contributions under this Plan or other plans maintained by the Employing Company and Related Employers; </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(4) By other distributions or nontaxable (at the time of the
loan) loans from all plans maintained by the Employing Company, Related Employer, or any other employer, but only if the amount of such loans would satisfy the financial need; or </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(5) By borrowing from commercial sources on reasonable commercial terms in an amount sufficient to satisfy
the need.&#148; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(f) Pro Rata Withdrawal. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Any withdrawals pursuant to this Section 6.2 shall be deemed to be taken pro
rata from each of the Participant&#146;s Accounts and from each applicable investment fund. No hardship withdrawals may be taken from the self-directed brokerage account or the loan fund. No repayments of hardship withdrawals are permitted.
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>6.3 Age 59&#189; Withdrawals. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">A Participant may at any time after attaining age 59&#189;, withdraw all or
any portion of his vested Accrued Benefit. Withdrawals shall be taken pro rata from each Account and from each applicable investment fund. No withdrawals may be taken from the self-directed brokerage account or the loan fund. No repayments of
withdrawals are permitted. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>6.4 Loans. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(a) Loan Amount, Term and Interest Rate. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Plan Administrator is authorized to approve or deny applications under
the Plan&#146;s loan program pursuant to the provisions of this Section 6.4. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(1) Any Participant who is actively employed by an Employing Company may borrow from his Accrued Benefit an amount that does not exceed the smallest of: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(A) 50% of the value of the Participant&#146;s entire vested Accrued Benefit in his Account, less the
balance of all other outstanding loans to the Participant under this Plan; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(B) $50,000 less the highest outstanding balance of loans to the Participant under all tax-qualified defined benefit and defined contribution plans of any Employing Company, including this Plan, during the one-year
period ending on the day immediately preceding the date of the loan; or </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(C) such lesser maximum amount as the Plan Administrator may from time to time establish
and apply uniformly to all loans made pursuant to the terms of the Plan. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(2) The minimum amount of any loan granted under the Plan shall be $1,000. For purposes of this Section 6.4(a), the value of a Participant&#146;s Account shall be determined as of the nearest Valuation Date the
proceeds of such loan are to be distributed to the Participant. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(3) Loans shall be granted for a maximum term of five (5) years. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(4) Loans shall bear a rate of interest as determined by the Plan Administrator, under a written procedure established by it (which shall
constitute a part of the Plan), which will provide a return commensurate with the interest rates charged by persons in the business of lending money for loans which would be made under similar circumstances. Unless otherwise specified by the Plan
Administrator, the interest rate shall be the prime rate plus one percent (1%). </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(5) Except as provided in regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, loans shall require substantially level amortization
(with payments not less frequently than quarterly) over the term of the loan. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(6) For each loan, the Participant&#146;s Account may be charged a one-time loan origination fee, as established from time to time by the Plan Administrator, which shall be deducted from a Participant&#146;s Account
in addition to the face amount of the loan. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(b) Frequency
of Loans. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">A Participant shall not have more than one (1)
loan outstanding at any time under this Plan and all other tax qualified plans maintained by any Employing Company. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(c) Loan Documents and Funding. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(1) No loan shall be made to any Participant prior to the Participant&#146;s application therefore, acknowledgement of a note payable to
the Trustee on which the Participant shall be personally liable for the amount of the loan in a form prescribed by the Plan Administrator, an authorization for payroll deductions for repayment of the loan, and, within 90 days prior to the making of
the loan, the written consent of the Participant to (i) the making of the loan, (ii) the set-off of the Participant&#146;s vested Account upon acceleration and/or default under the loan, and (iii) the distribution or deemed distribution of all or
any part of the Participant&#146;s vested Account necessary to effect the set-off. Each of the foregoing actions and acknowledgments should be effected in the manner specified by the Plan Administrator from time to time. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(2) Cash equal to the value of any loan granted under this
Section 6.4 shall be transferred from the investment fund or investment funds in which the Participant&#146;s Account is invested on a pro rata basis, provided that loan proceeds will not be taken from the self-directed brokerage account. In
addition, loans shall be deemed to be taken from all Accounts on a pro rata basis, except that no loans shall be deemed to be taken </FONT>
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">from the Employee CAP Account until all other Accounts have been used in full. Upon the transfer of the loan proceeds (less the origination fee) to the
Participant, the Participant shall be bound by the note acknowledged by such Participant, and such note shall be deemed to be transferred to the loan fund. All loans shall be considered a segregated investment of the Trust on behalf of the borrowing
Participant, and the Participant&#146;s note shall thus be held as a directed investment of the Participant&#146;s account in the loan fund, provided that, notwithstanding the nonalienation rule of Section 9.1, the loan fund shall have a first lien
on said note.&#148; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(d) Repayment. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Repayment shall be accomplished through regular payroll deductions as
authorized by a salary deduction agreement. Payments by a Participant shall be applied first to outstanding interest and then to reduce the outstanding principal balance of the loan and shall be allocated to the Participant&#146;s Account and
invested in accordance with the Participant&#146;s investment designation as in effect under Section 5.3. A Participant shall be entitled to prepay without penalty the full loan balance by cashier&#146;s check or by such other means as approved by
the Plan Administrator at any time. Partial prepayments are not permitted. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(e) Leave of Absence. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(1) A Participant with an outstanding loan who is placed on authorized leave of absence either without pay or at a rate of pay (after applicable employment tax withholdings) that is less than the amount of the
installment payments required under the term of the loan may defer payment of all principal and interest for the shorter of the duration of the absence or one (1) year, followed by the reamortization, on the date on which the Participant returns to
pay status (or, if earlier, the first anniversary of the leave of absence), of the then-outstanding principal and interest (including interest accrued during the absence) in substantially equal installments over the remaining loan term plus the
amount of the leave, provided that in no event shall any loan become due and payable later than the expiration of the five-year limitation prescribed by Section 6.4(a)(3), unless otherwise permitted by that Section. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), if the Participant is a
uniformed services employee on military leave, then such Participant may defer payment of all principal and interest for the duration of the absence, followed by the reamortization, on the date on which the Participant returns to pay status, of the
then-outstanding principal and interest (including interest accrued during the absence) in substantially equal installments over the remaining loan term, extended by the period of absence; provided that in no event shall any such loan become due and
payable later than the expiration of the five-year limitation prescribed by Section 6.4(a)(3) (unless otherwise permitted by that Section) plus the period of the military leave.&#148; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(f) Death or Termination of Employment. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If, prior to repayment of the total principal amount of and accrued interest on a note held by the loan fund. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(1) a Participant incurs a severance from employment or otherwise ceases to be an
employee for any reason other than his death and the said amount is not repaid in full by the end of the 60th day following the day he incurs a severance from employment or otherwise ceases to be an employee, or </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(2) a Participant dies and said amount, including any
further accrued interest, is not repaid in full within 90 days after his death, </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2">then the entire amount of the loan shall be accelerated and become immediately due and payable and the Participant&#146;s applicable Account balances shall be reduced, in proportion to their investment in the loan fund, by the amount of
said total outstanding principal amount and accrued interest prior to the payment of any benefits to the Participant or his Beneficiary, and the amount of such reduction shall be applied to satisfy the note held by the loan fund. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, any loans outstanding as of the date a Participant separates from employment that are transferred to another plan in accordance with Section 8.2(c) shall not be accelerated in accordance with this Section 6.4(f). Notwithstanding the
foregoing, any Participant who incurs an involuntary termination of employment due to a reduction in force, divestiture or outsourcing, and who thereafter remains an inactive Participants, may continue to make installment payments in accordance with
the loan amortization schedule in effect at the time of such termination. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(g) Default. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If any
loan repayment required hereunder is not timely paid in full, or if any other default occurs, then, unless otherwise provided by the Plan Administrator, the entire outstanding principal balance and accrued interest shall be accelerated and become
immediately due and payable. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(h) Further Limitations on
Loans. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained
in this Section 6.4, the Plan Administrator reserves the right to limit further the amount that may be borrowed hereunder, to limit further the terms and conditions under which loans will be made, or to declare a moratorium on the granting of loans
to Participants, in each case on the basis of uniform and nondiscriminatory rules. No loans shall be made during any period in which the Plan Administrator is determining whether a domestic relations order relating to such Participant&#146;s Accrued
Benefit is a Qualified Domestic Relations Order. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>ARTICLE VII
</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>TERMINATION OF SERVICE - PARTICIPANT VESTING
</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>7.1 Retirement, Death, Disability or Layoff. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Upon Retirement, death, Total and Permanent Disability, or permanent layoff
(as determined by the Committee in its sole discretion), a Participant&#146;s Accrued Benefit shall be fully vested and nonforfeitable, and the Committee shall direct the Trustee to make payment of the full value of the Participant&#146;s Accrued
Benefit to him at such times and in such manner as provided in Article VIII hereof. The value of the Participant&#146;s Accrued Benefit shall be determined as of the </FONT>
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Valuation Date on which the distribution is processed. Participants shall not be entitled to any earnings after such Valuation Date. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>7.2 Termination of Service Prior to Retirement. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">All Participants who are Employees under the Plan or the Ericsson Plan on or
after January 1, 2001, shall be fully vested at all times in all amounts credited to their Accounts. Participants who are not Employees under the Plan or the Ericsson Plan on or after January 1, 2001, for any reason (referred to for purposes of this
Section as &#147;Inactive Participants&#148;), including, but not limited to, the fact that their Severance from Employment Date was prior to January 1, 2001, shall be subject to the following vesting rules. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If an Inactive Participant&#146;s employment terminates prior to Retirement
for any reason other than death, Total and Permanent Disability, or permanent layoff, then such Participant shall be vested in his Company Match Account according to the following schedule: </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="92%"></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="7%"></TD>
<TD></TD>
<TD></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Years of Vesting Service</B></FONT></P><HR WIDTH="131" SIZE="1" NOSHADE ALIGN="left" COLOR="#000000"></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Percent<BR>Vested</B></FONT><BR><HR SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Less than 2 years</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="right" COLSPAN="1" VALIGN="bottom"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">0</FONT></TD>
<TD COLSPAN="1" NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">%</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">2 or more years</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="right" COLSPAN="1" VALIGN="bottom"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">100</FONT></TD>
<TD COLSPAN="1" NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">%</FONT></TD></TR>
</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In addition, an
Inactive Participant shall be 100% vested at all times in that portion of his Accrued Benefit attributable to his Employee Savings Account, Employee CAP Account, and Company CAP Account. The value of a Participant&#146;s vested Accrued Benefit shall
be determined as of the Valuation Date on which the distribution is processed. Participants shall not be entitled to any earnings after such Valuation Date. Such payment shall be made at such times and in such manner as provided in Article VIII.
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>7.3 Years of Vesting Service. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">For purposes of vesting under Section 7.2, a year of Vesting Service shall
mean any computation period during which the Participant completes a Year of Service with the Employing Companies or a Related Employer. Years of Service credited under the Prior Plans or Merged Plans shall also count as years of Vesting Service
hereunder. Moreover, for Participants who were members of the GE Plan as of December 31, 1989 and who became members of one or more of the Prior Plans as of January 1, 1990, years of service under the GE Plan shall be credited as years of Vesting
Service hereunder. In addition, for Participants who were employees of Ericsson Raynet as of December 31, 1994, years of service under the Raychem 401(k) plan shall be credited as years of Vesting Service hereunder. Furthermore, for Participants who
were employees of Objectory Corporation as of December 31, 1994, years of service with the direct and indirect owners of Objectory Corporation shall be credited as years of Vesting Service hereunder. In the case of an Employee who separates from
Service and who resumes employment with the Employing Companies, but not as a Re-Employed Employee, years of Vesting Service prior to his resumption of employment shall be disregarded. In addition, if a Participant has incurred five (5) consecutive
One Year Periods of Severance, Service after such One Year Periods of Severance shall not increase the Participant&#146;s nonforfeitable percentage in his Accrued Benefit derived from Company Matching Contributions that accrued prior to such five
(5) consecutive One Year Periods of Severance. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(39) </FONT></P>


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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, a year of Vesting Service shall include any computation
period during which a leased employee completes twelve (12) months of service as a leased employee. For purposes of this paragraph, a &#147;leased employee&#148; shall mean any person who is not an Employee and who performs services for an Employing
Company or a Related Employer pursuant to an agreement between the Employing Company or Related Employer and any other person where such services are performed on a substantially full-time basis for a period of at least one year and such services
are preformed under the primary direction or control of the Employing Company or Related Employer. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>7.4 Forfeiture and Restoration of Non-Vested Accrued Benefit. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(a) Forfeiture Occurs. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Except as otherwise provided in Section 8.10, a Participant&#146;s Forfeiture Amount, if any, shall cease to be part of his Accrued Benefit as of the
earlier to occur of (i) in the case where the Participant does not receive a distribution of his entire vested Accrued Benefit in accordance with Section 7.4(b) below, on the day in which the Participant first incurs five (5) consecutive One Year
Periods of Severance as the result of the termination of his Service or (ii) the day in which the Participant receives a distribution of his entire vested Accrued Benefit (including a deemed distribution of $0) as the result of his termination of
Service (provided such distribution, if any, is made not later than the close of the second Plan Year following the Participant&#146;s termination of Service). Upon a Participant&#146;s termination of Service, such Participant shall receive a
distribution of his entire vested Accrued Benefit in accordance with the provisions of Section 8.5. Except as otherwise provided in Section 8.10, the Committee shall determine a Participant&#146;s Accrued Benefit Forfeiture, if any, solely by
reference to the vesting provisions of Section 7.2. A Participant shall not forfeit any portion of his Accrued Benefit for any cause other than that specified herein. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(b) Restoration of Non-Vested Accrued Benefit. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In the case of a former Participant who was less than 100 percent vested and whose non-vested Account balance was forfeited
by reason of Section 7.4(a), if such individual returns to Service prior to the earlier of (a) the Plan&#146;s termination and (b) his incurring five (5) consecutive One Year Periods of Severance, such individual&#146;s Forfeiture Amount shall be
restored (unadjusted for any gains or losses) as part of such individual&#146;s Accrued Benefit and credited to his Company Match Account, if the Participant repays to the Plan the full amount of the distribution prior to the lapse of five (5) years
following the Participant&#146;s reemployment by the Employing Companies or a Related Employer (provided that the Participant must be an Employee at the time of repayment). (Any prior deemed distribution of $0 will be considered automatically repaid
upon the Participant&#146;s Reemployment Commencement Date.) As of the Valuation Date that such repayment is processed, and prior to any allocation of (i) the Trust Fund earnings, (ii) Forfeitures, or (iii) Company Matching Contributions or Company
CAP Contributions, there shall be allocated to the Participant&#146;s Company Match Account an amount (the &#147;Restoration Amount&#148;) of the Trust Fund equal to the amount of his previously forfeited non-vested Accrued Benefit. The Restoration
Amount shall be credited first against Forfeitures arising for the Plan Year, and if such Forfeitures are not sufficient to satisfy the Restoration Amount in full, the Restoration Amount shall be further credited against Trust Fund income and gain
for the Plan Year, and if the Restoration Amount thereafter still remains unsatisfied in full, the remainder of such amount shall be satisfied out of Company Matching Contributions for the </FONT>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Plan Year, which contributions shall be supplemented for the Plan Year by an amount equal to such remainder. The Restoration Amount shall not be deemed an
Annual Addition or portion thereof for any Plan Year. In addition, the Employing Companies may and, if necessary, shall make a Company Matching Contribution for the purpose of restoring a Participant&#146;s previously forfeited non-vested Accrued
Benefit even though the Employing Companies have no profits. The Committee shall give timely notice to any rehired Employee, if such Employee is eligible to make a repayment, of his right to make such repayment before the expiration of the periods
of the occurrence of the events specified above, and such notice shall also include an explanation of the consequences of not making such repayment. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>7.5 Termination, Partial Termination, or Complete Discontinuance of Company Contributions. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Notwithstanding any other provision in this Plan, in the event of a termination or partial termination of the Plan, or a
complete discontinuance of Company Matching Contributions and Company CAP Contributions under the Plan, all affected Participants shall have a fully vested interest in their Accrued Benefit determined as of the date of such event. The value of the
Accrued Benefit shall be determined on the date the Accrued Benefit becomes fully vested. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>ARTICLE VIII </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>TIME AND
METHOD OF PAYMENT OF BENEFITS<U></U> </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>8.1 Time of Payment.
</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(a) Retirement. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Except as provided in Section 8.5, in the event of a Participant&#146;s
Retirement, payment of his Accrued Benefit shall commence as soon as administratively feasible following the processing of his distribution. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(b) Death or Disability. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In the event of death or Total and Permanent Disability, except in the case of a distribution deferred pursuant to Section 8.5, payment of the
Participant&#146;s Accrued Benefit shall commence as soon as administratively feasible following the processing of his distribution.<U></U> </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(c) Severance from Employment. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Upon a Participant&#146;s severance from employment for any reason other than Retirement, Total and Permanent Disability, or death, the Trustee shall
continue to hold the Participant&#146;s Accrued Benefit in Trust until the date the Participant requests a distribution thereof, or, if earlier, the date provided in Section 8.5, at which time the Trustee shall commence distribution of the
Participant&#146;s Accrued Benefit in accordance with the provisions of Section 8.1(a) and Section 8.2; provided, however, that the Committee may make an earlier distribution of the Participant&#146;s Accrued Benefit pursuant to Section
8.1(d).<U></U> </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(d) Limitation on Time of Payment. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Notwithstanding any provision contained herein to the contrary, unless the Participant otherwise directs, the Trustee shall
commence distribution of the Participant&#146;s vested Accrued Benefit not later than sixty (60) days after the close of the Plan Year in which the latest of the following events occurs:<U></U> </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(1) The date the Participant attains Normal Retirement Age;
or </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(2) The Participant&#146;s Severance from
Employment Date. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Except as provided in Section 8.5 and the
immediately following sentence, a Participant may elect to defer the commencement of the payment of his benefits beyond the dates specified above by submitting a written statement to the Committee describing his benefit and the date on which the
payment of such benefit shall commence. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Notwithstanding any
other provision of Articles VII through IX of the Plan to the contrary, with respect to any 5-percent owner of the Employer (who either becomes a 5% owner at any time during the five Plan Year period ending in the calendar year in which the
Participant attains age 70-1/2, or who becomes a 5% owner during any subsequent calendar year (&#147;5% owner&#148;), the distribution of a Participant&#146;s entire vested and nonforfeitable interest in the Plan will be made in a lump sum not later
than April 1 following the calendar year in which he attains age 70-1/2 unless the Participant makes a withdrawal under Article VI of the Plan that is sufficient to satisfy the minimum distribution requirements of section 401(a)(9) of the Code and
the regulations thereunder. With respect to any 5% owner, on or before December 31 of such calendar year and of each succeeding calendar year, distribution of the entire amount of any additional balances in the Participant&#146;s Accounts
(determined as of the latest Valuation Date prior to the date of distribution) will be made in a lump sum unless the Participant makes a withdrawal under Article VI that is sufficient to satisfy the minimum distribution requirements of section
401(a)(9) of the Code and the regulations thereunder. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2">Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, with respect to an Employee who is not a 5% owner of his Employer, as described in section 416 of the Code, the distribution of his entire vested Accrued Benefit shall be made in a single
lump sum distribution as of the Required Commencement Date or shall commence to be distributed not later than the Required Commencement Date over the life of such Participant or over the joint lives of such Participant and his Beneficiary, or over a
period not extending beyond the life expectancy of such Participant or the joint life expectancies of such Participant and his Beneficiary. Life expectancy of a Participant and his spouse (other than for a life annuity) may be redetermined annually
at the Participant&#146;s election. Life expectancy shall be determined in accordance with the tables set forth in the Treasury Regulations under Code section 401(a)(9). Except as provided in the next sentence, in-service distributions shall not be
permitted for non-5% owners upon attainment of age 70-1/2 except as otherwise permitted under Article VI. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, in-service distributions for non-5% owners shall also be permitted upon attainment of age 70-1/2, to
the extent provided in this Section for 5% owners, but only for Participants who attain age 70-1/2 in Plan Years beginning before January 1, 1999. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Except as otherwise provided by Treasury Regulations, if distributions of the Participant&#146;s interest has commenced but the Participant dies prior to
his entire interest being distributed to him, the remaining portion of such interest shall be distributed at least as rapidly as under the method of distribution being used as of the date of his death. Except as otherwise provided by </FONT>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Treasury Regulations, if the Participant dies before the distribution of his interest has commenced, the entire interest of the Participant shall be
distributed within five (5) years after the death of the Participant. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2">Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, if any portion of the Participant&#146;s interest is payable to or for the benefit of a Beneficiary over the life of such Beneficiary (or over a period not extending beyond the life
expectancy of such Beneficiary), such portion will be distributed over the life of such Beneficiary or over a period not extending beyond the life expectancy of such Beneficiary, and such distributions shall commence not later than December 31 of
the calendar year following the calendar year in which the Participant died. However, for purposes of the immediately preceding sentence, if the Beneficiary is the surviving spouse of the Participant, the deceased Participant&#146;s interest shall
commence to be distributed to such surviving spouse on or before the date on which the Participant would have attained age seventy and one-half (70-1/2), or the end of the calendar year following the calendar year that contained the
Participant&#146;s death, if later. If the surviving spouse dies before the distributions to such spouse commence, the distribution of the interest of the deceased Participant shall begin on or before a date determined as if the surviving spouse
were the Participant, excluding the special rules in the preceding sentence applicable when the surviving spouse is the designated Beneficiary. For purposes of this subsection, any amount paid to a child shall be treated as if it had been paid to
the surviving spouse if such amount will become payable to the surviving spouse upon such child reaching majority. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section, nothing shall permit any Participant or Beneficiary to elect any form of distribution not
otherwise expressly permitted under Section 8.2 of this Plan. Any payments hereunder must also satisfy the minimum incidental death benefit rules of the Treasury Regulations under Code section 401(a)(9). </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Notwithstanding any other provision herein to the contrary, distributions
hereunder will be made in accordance with the Treasury Regulations under Code section 401(a)(9), and any Internal Revenue Service rulings, announcements or notices promulgated under Code section 401(a)(9), including any grandfather or transitional
rules thereunder. Furthermore, any provisions contained herein which reflect Code section 401(a)(9) shall override any distribution options in the Plan inconsistent with Code section 401(a)(9). </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>8.2 Method of Payment. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(a) General. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">After all required accounting adjustments, the Trustee, in accord with the direction of the Participant and the procedures of Section 9.14, shall make
payment of the Participant&#146;s vested Accrued Benefit under one (1) or more of the following methods: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(1) By payment in a lump sum in cash and/or Ericsson ADRs; or </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(2) By transfer to an Eligible Retirement Plan, as defined in Section 8.2(c)(2)(B). </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 8.2, the phrase
&#147;payment in a lump sum&#148; as used herein shall not include the distribution of an insurance contract providing for </FONT>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(i) a life annuity to a Participant, (ii) a joint and survivor annuity to a Participant and his Beneficiary, or (iii) any other form of payment having the
effect of (i) or (ii) above. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Notwithstanding the foregoing
foreign contract employees (as determined by the Committee) who are non U.S. citizens shall be entitled to distributions in the form of an insurance contract providing for (1) a life annuity to a Participant, or (ii) a joint and survivor annuity to
a Participant and his Beneficiary. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(b) Right to Elect
Partial Distributions. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Notwithstanding the provisions of
Section 8.2(a), Participants who have had a severance from employment for any reason shall have the right to elect a Partial Distribution under this Plan. Furthermore, in the event of such a Participant&#146;s death, his surviving Spouse or
Beneficiary may elect to receive Partial Distributions pursuant to the provisions of this section, in lieu of receiving payment in the form of a lump sum. All partial distributions made under this Section shall be taken pro rata from each Account
and from each investment fund in which the Participant&#146;s Account is invested. Such election for a Partial Distribution shall be made pursuant to any rules and procedures established by the Committee, shall be subject to the minimum distribution
and incidental death benefit requirements of Code section 401(a)(9), and except as provided in Section 8.2(a) above, shall neither be in the term of, or have the effect of, a life annuity or a joint and survivor annuity. A qualifying Participant, or
surviving Spouse or Beneficiary, may elect up to twelve Partial Distributions per Plan Year, provided that no more than one Partial Distribution may be taken in any calendar month. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(c) Participants&#146; Right to Elect a Direct Transfer for any Eligible Rollover Distribution. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(1) <U>General</U>. Notwithstanding any provision of the
Plan to the contrary that would otherwise limit a distributee&#146;s election under this Section, a distributee may elect, at the time and in the manner prescribed by the Plan Administrator, to have any portion of an Eligible Rollover Distribution
paid directly to an Eligible Retirement Plan specified by the distributee in a direct rollover. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(2) <U>Definitions</U>. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(A) Eligible Rollover Distribution: An Eligible Rollover Distribution is any distribution of all or any portion of the balance to the
credit of the distributee, except that an eligible rollover distribution does not include: (i) any distribution that is one of a series of substantially equal periodic payments (not less frequently than annually) made for the life (or life
expectancy) of the distributee or the joint lives (or joint life expectancies) of the distributee and the distributee&#146;s designated beneficiary, or for a specified period of 10 years or more; (ii) any distribution to the extent such distribution
is required under Code section 401(a)(9); (iii) the portion of any distribution that is not includible in gross income (determined without regard to the exclusion for net unrealized appreciation on employer securities) or (iv) a hardship
distribution under Section 6.1(b) or Section 6.2. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(B) Eligible Retirement Plan: An Eligible Retirement Plan is an individual retirement
account described in section 408(a) of the Code, an individual retirement annuity described in section 408(b) of the Code, an annuity plan described in section 403(a) of the Code, an annuity contract described section 403(b) of the Code, a qualified
trust described in section 401(a) of the Code, or an eligible deferred compensation plan described in section 457(b) of the Code that is maintained by an eligible employer described in section 457(e)(1)(A) of the Code, that accepts the
distributee&#146;s eligible rollover distribution. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2">(C) Distributee: A distributee includes a Participant or former Participant. In addition, the Participant&#146;s or former Participant&#146;s surviving spouse and the Participant&#146;s or former Participant&#146;s spouse or former spouse
who is the alternate payee under a QDRO, as defined in Code section 414(p), are distributees with regard to the interest of the spouse or former spouse. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(D) Direct rollover: A direct rollover is a payment by the Plan to the eligible retirement plan specified by the distributee. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(3) <U>Timing</U>. If a distribution is one to which Code
sections 401(a)(11) and 417 do not apply, that distribution may commence less than 30 days after the notice required under Treasury Regulation section 1.411(a)-11(c) is given, provided that: </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(A) The Plan Administrator clearly informs the Participant
that the Participant has a right to a period of at least 30 days after receiving the notice to consider the decision of whether or not to elect a distribution (and, if applicable, a particular distribution option), and </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(B) The Participant, after receiving the notice,
affirmatively elects a distribution. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(4)
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in sections 8.2(c)(1), (2) or (3) above, the following rules shall apply with respect to an Eligible Rollover Distribution: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(A) no such distribution shall be made to more than one Eligible Retirement Plan, </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(B) no distribution of which only a portion is an Eligible
Rollover Distribution shall be permitted unless the Eligible Rollover Distribution portion amounts to at least $500, </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(C) no Eligible Rollover Distribution shall be made unless the Participant shall have provided such information relating to the recipient
of the distribution as the Plan Administrator may reasonably request, and </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(D) in the event a Participant has not timely made an election for a qualified rollover distribution in accordance with the procedures of the Plan Administrator, he shall be deemed to have elected payment to him or
her and not to have made an Eligible Rollover Distribution. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">For purposes of this Section 8.2(c)(4), the term &#147;Participant&#148; shall include, as may be
appropriate, the surviving Spouse of the Participant, or an alternative payee under a Qualified Domestic Relations Order. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(d) Special Rule for Transferred Sums. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, with respect to any distributions commencing prior to the date that is ninety (90) days
following the later of (i) April 1, 2001, or (ii) the date notice is given to Participants whose Accounts include sums transferred to the Ericsson Plan from the MPD Technologies, Inc. In-Vest Plan (&#147;MPD Participants&#148;) that payment in an
annuity form will no longer be permitted, distribution of any portion of an MPD Participant&#146;s Account attributable to sums transferred to this Plan from the MPD Plan may be made in any optional payment form available under the MPD Technologies,
Inc. In-Vest Plan, including, without limitation, a single life or joint and survivor annuity, subject to all of the provisions of such Plan relating thereto. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>8.3 Investment of Account After Termination. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Should a Participant&#146;s Account be retained in the Trust after the date on which his participation ends and he has become a former Participant, the
Account will continue to be treated as a part of the Trust Fund. Subject to Sections 7.1 and 7.2, the Account will be credited (or debited) with its share of the net income (or loss) attributable to the investments of such Account but shall not be
credited with any further Company Matching Contributions, Company CAP Contributions, Employee Savings Contributions, Employee CAP Contributions, or Catch-up Contributions. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>8.4 Special Limitations on Form of Benefits Distribution. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Notwithstanding any provision of this Plan to the contrary, (a) except for foreign contract employees who are non U.S.
citizens, a Participant may not elect that any portion of his Accrued Benefit be paid in the form of a life annuity, and (b) except as is provided in the immediately following sentence, upon a Participant&#146;s death prior to the payment in full of
such Participant&#146;s vested Accrued Benefit, the Participant&#146;s vested Accrued Benefit, or portion thereof not paid as of the Participant&#146;s death, shall be paid in full to the Participant&#146;s surviving spouse. Payment of a deceased
Participant&#146;s vested Accrued Benefit shall not be paid in accordance with the immediately preceding sentence, but shall be paid instead in accordance with the Participant&#146;s Beneficiary election under the Plan if there is no surviving
spouse of the Participant, the surviving spouse cannot be found or other circumstances prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury exist, or if the surviving spouse consents in the manner required in the immediately following sentence to payment of
the Participant&#146;s Accrued Benefit to a designated Beneficiary other than the Participant&#146;s spouse. A Participant&#146;s spouse may consent to the naming of a designated Beneficiary other than the spouse to receive the Participant&#146;s
Accrued Benefit, or portion thereof not distributed on the date of the Participant&#146;s death, but only if such consent (i) is in writing, (ii) designates a Beneficiary (or a form of benefits) which may not be changed without further spousal
consent (or such consent expressly permits designations by the Participant without any requirement of further spousal consent), (iii) acknowledges the effect of the Participant&#146;s election (and the spousal consent), and (iv) is witnessed by a
member of the Committee or a notary public. Any consent by a spouse (or establishment that the consent of a spouse may not be obtained) under the preceding sentence shall be effective only with respect to </FONT>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">such spouse. If no effective Beneficiary designation shall have been made, or if all designated Beneficiaries predecease the Participant, payment shall be
made to the Participant&#146;s estate. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>8.5 Lump Sum Cashout and Special
Limitation on Involuntary Payment of Benefits. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2">Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Article VIII (other than the Participant&#146;s election rights under Section 8.2(b)), if following a Participant&#146;s termination of Service the value of the Participant&#146;s vested
Accrued Benefit, determined as of the Valuation Date coinciding with the date a distribution is to commence (or could commence hereunder) does not exceed $5,000 (disregarding any amount held in such Participant&#146;s Rollover Account), the
Committee shall direct the Trustee to distribute the value of the Participant&#146;s vested Accrued Benefit to the Participant or the Participant&#146;s Beneficiary in a lump sum as soon as administratively feasible (and in no event later than the
end of the second Plan Year following the year of the termination, and only if as of the Valuation Date coinciding with or immediately prior to the distribution, the value of such vested Accrued Benefit does not exceed $5,000 (disregarding any
amount held in such Participant&#146;s Rollover Account)). The preceding sentence shall not apply if the Participant (or, if applicable, his Beneficiary) cannot be found, in which case the provisions of Section 8.10 shall apply. If following a
Participant&#146;s termination of Service for any reason other than death the then value of the Participant&#146;s vested Accrued Benefit exceeds $5,000 (disregarding any amount held in such Participant&#146;s Rollover Account) as of the Valuation
Date coinciding with the date a distribution is to commence (or could commence hereunder), no distribution of the Participant&#146;s vested Accrued Benefit to the Participant may occur prior to the earlier of (i) the Participant&#146;s attainment of
age sixty-five (65), (ii) the Participant&#146;s death, (iii) termination of the Plan without the establishment or maintenance of another defined contribution plan (other than an ESOP), or (iv) the date that such Participant&#146;s Accrued Benefit
(disregarding such Participant&#146;s Rollover Account) is reduced to $5,000 or less (by withdrawals, investment experience or otherwise), unless prior to such time the Participant files with the Committee a written request for the payment of his
vested Accrued Benefit, such request expressly to consent to the payment. If the Participant files such a request the Committee shall direct the Trustee to pay such amount to the Participant; provided that (except as provided in Section 8.2(c)(3)
any such request and consent must be received within ninety (90) days of the distribution of the benefit and must expressly consent to the payment. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>8.6 Qualified Domestic Relations Orders. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">During any period in which the issue of whether a Domestic Relations Order is a Qualified Domestic Relations Order is being determined (by the Committee,
by a court of competent jurisdiction, or otherwise), the Committee shall direct that a separate account be maintained for the amount, if any, that would have been currently payable to the Alternate Payee during such period if the Domestic Relations
Order is determined to be a Qualified Domestic Relations Order. If within eighteen (18) months the Domestic Relations Order (or modification thereof) is determined to be a Qualified Domestic Relations Order, the Committee shall direct the Trustee to
pay the segregated account (and any earnings or interest thereon) to the person or persons entitled thereto (to the extent otherwise then payable hereunder and under the terms of the Qualified Domestic Relations Order). If within eighteen (18)
months it is determined that the order is not a Qualified Domestic Relations Order or the issue as to whether such Domestic Relations Order is a Qualified Domestic Relations Order is not resolved, then, if such amount would otherwise be currently
payable to the Participant or his Beneficiary, the Committee shall direct the Trustee to pay the segregated account (and any earnings or interest thereon) to the </FONT>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">person or persons who would have been entitled to such amounts if there had been no Domestic Relations Order. Any determination that a Domestic Relations
Order is a Qualified Domestic Relations Order that is made after the close of the eighteen (18) month period shall be applied prospectively only. The Committee shall establish reasonable procedures for determining whether a Domestic Relations Order
is a Qualified Domestic Relations Order and to administer distributions under Qualified Domestic Relations Orders. When the Plan receives a Domestic Relations Order, the Committee shall promptly notify the appropriate Participant and any other
Alternate Payee of the receipt of such order and the Committee&#146;s procedures for determining whether such order is a Qualified Domestic Relations Order. The Committee shall determine whether a Domestic Relations Order is a Qualified Domestic
Relations Order within a reasonable period after receipt of such order, and shall within a reasonable time after such determination notify the Participant and each Alternate Payee of such determination. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>8.7 Payment in the Event of Legal Disability. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Payments to any Participant, former Participant, or Beneficiary shall be
made to the recipient entitled thereto in person or upon his personal receipt, in form satisfactory to the Committee, except when the recipient entitled thereto shall be under a legal disability, or, in the sole judgment of the Committee, shall
otherwise be unable to apply such payment in furtherance of his own interest and advantage. The Committee may, in such event, in its sole discretion, direct all or any portion of such payments to be made in any one or more of the following ways:
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(a) To such person directly; </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(b) To the guardian of his person or his estate; </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(c) To a relative or friend of such person, to be expended for his benefit;
or </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(d) To a custodian for such person under any Uniform Gifts
to Minors Act. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The decision of the Committee, in each case,
will be final, binding, and conclusive upon all persons ever interested hereunder. The Committee shall not be obliged to see to the proper application or expenditure of any payment so made. Any payment made pursuant to the power herein conferred
upon the Committee shall operate as a complete discharge of all obligations of the Trustee and the Committee, to the extent of the distributions so made. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>8.8 Accounts Charged. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Committee shall charge all distributions made to a Participant or to his Beneficiary from his Account against the Account of the Participant when
made. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>8.9 Payments Only from Trust Fund. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">All benefits of the Plan shall be payable solely from the Trust Fund and
neither the Employing Companies, the Committee, nor Trustee shall have any liability or responsibility therefor except as expressly provided herein. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Except to the extent required by ERISA, neither the Trustee nor the Committee shall be obliged to search for, or ascertain
the whereabouts of, any Participant or Beneficiary. The Committee, by certified or registered mail addressed to his last known address of record with the Committee or the Employing Companies, shall notify any Participant or Beneficiary that he is
entitled to a distribution under this Plan, and the notice shall quote the provisions of this Section. If the Participant or Beneficiary fails to claim his benefits or make his whereabouts known in writing to the Committee, and the Committee is
otherwise unable to locate the Participant or Beneficiary after reasonable due diligence, the Committee shall then notify the Social Security Administration or other applicable federal agency of the Participant&#146;s (or Beneficiary&#146;s) failure
to claim the distribution to which he is entitled. The Committee shall request the Social Security Association or other applicable federal agency to notify the Participant (or Beneficiary) in accord with the procedures it has established for this
purpose. If the Social Security Administration or other applicable federal agency cannot locate the Participant or Beneficiary, then upon the first permissible distribution date (such as attainment of age 65, death, or Plan termination, or an
involuntary cashout pursuant to Section 8.5), at any time on or before the end of the second Plan Year following the year of the Participant&#146;s termination of Service), or, if earlier, upon any other permissible forfeiture date, the benefit
shall be treated as a Forfeiture hereunder, provided that the benefit shall be reinstated (without interest or earnings) in the event that the Participant or Beneficiary ever makes a claim therefor. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">While payment is pending prior to the above-referenced permissible
distribution or forfeiture date, the Committee will maintain the Participant&#146;s investments in their respective funds which will be subject to earnings and losses. Any payment made pursuant to the power herein conferred upon the Committee shall
operate as a complete discharge of all obligations of the Trustee and the Committee, to the extent of the distributions so made. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>8.11 Restrictions on Distribution of Employee CAP Contributions, Company CAP Contributions, Catch-up Contributions and Company Matching Contributions. </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, a Participant&#146;s
Employee CAP Account, Company CAP Account and Safe-Harbor Matching Account shall not be distributed before the first to occur of the following events: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(a) the Participant&#146;s Retirement; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(b) his death; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(c) his Total and Permanent Disability; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(d) his severance from employment; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(e) his attainment of age 59&#189; (but only to the extent otherwise permitted hereunder); </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(f) the termination of the Plan, provided that neither the Employing Company nor any Related Employer establishes or
maintains a successor defined contribution plan (within the meaning of the applicable Treasury regulations) other than an employee stock ownership plan or a simplified employee pension; or </FONT></P> <P
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specified in Section 6.2 (and only to the extent permitted therein). </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2">A distribution may be made under (f) above only if it constitutes a total distribution of the Participant&#146;s entire vested account balance in his Account (and any other vested account balance in any other tax-qualified profit-sharing
plan of an Employing Company or a Related Employer). </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>ARTICLE
IX </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><U>MISCELLANEOUS </U></B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>9.1 Non-Assignability. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">To the fullest extent permitted by law and subject to the provisions of Sections 8.6 and 6.4(c)(2), no right or interest of
any Participant in the Plan or in his Account shall be assignable or transferable or subject to any encumbrance, alienation, anticipation, pledge, or lien in whole or in part, either directly or by operation of law or otherwise, including, but not
by way of limitation, execution, levy, garnishment, attachment, pledge, bankruptcy or in any other manner, except a transfer as a result of death or mental incompetency, and no right or interest of any Participant in the Plan or in his Account shall
be liable for, or subject to, any obligation or liability of such Participant, except as otherwise permitted under Code section 401(a)(13)(C). </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>9.2 Extent of Participant&#146;s Rights. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Company offers no assurances that the current market value of any security will be equal to the purchase price of such security or that the amount
distributable in cash will be equal to or greater than the amount of any Plan contributions made by or for the benefit of any Participant hereunder. Each Participant assumes all risk in connection with any decrease in the market price of any
investments in any of the Plan&#146;s investment funds. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>9.3 Trustee.
</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Company or Committee shall enter into agreement or
agreements with a trustee or trustees selected by the Board or Committee to act under the Plan. The Trustee shall receive all Employee Savings Contributions, Employee CAP Contributions, Catch-up Contributions, Company CAP Contributions, and Company
Matching Contributions under the Plan; hold, manage and invest the same, reinvest any income therefrom, and distribute such funds in accordance with written instructions and directions of the Committee, except that the Trustee shall immediately
transfer all contributions directed for investment to the appropriate investment funds pursuant to the Participants&#146; elections. Notwithstanding the above, pending the selection and purchase of such investments, the Plan assets to be invested in
any of the investment funds may be temporarily invested by the Trustee, in its sole discretion, (i) in U.S. Obligations, (ii) in commercial paper generally rated as prime at the time of purchase thereof, and maturing not more than six (6) months
after purchase, or (iii) in certificates of deposit of any bank organized under the laws of the United States or any state thereof. Any trust agreement shall be in such form and contain such provisions not inconsistent with the Plan and the
Regulations as the Board or Committee may deem appropriate, including, among others, provisions required for qualification of the Trust under the Code. The Board or Committee may at any time revoke the </FONT>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">appointment of the Trustee and upon such revocation a successor Trustee shall be selected by the Board or Committee. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>9.4 Allocation of Earnings and Contributions to Investment Fund Accounts. </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The following allocation rules shall apply separately to each investment
fund. As of each Valuation Date, the Committee or its delegate shall (i) subtract all distributions and withdrawals from such investment fund since the previous Valuation Date; (ii) allocate the net earnings and gains and losses of the investment
fund earned since the preceding Valuation Date to each Participant&#146;s subaccounts based on each such subaccount&#146;s share of such earnings, gains and losses; and (iii) add to each subaccount the amount of new contributions allocated to such
investment fund. For these purposes, the Committee or its delegate shall adopt uniform rules that conform to applicable law and generally accepted accounting practices.<U></U> </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>9.5 Stock. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The accounting methods or formulae to be used under the Plan for the purpose of maintaining the balance of a Participant&#146;s Account with respect to
any portion thereof invested in the L M Ericsson Stock Fund shall be determined by the Committee and shall be based upon the so-called unit accounting method, whereby all Plan assets in the Fund are carried as units, as opposed to actual ADRs. Thus,
Participants shall not have any individual ADRs allocated to their Accounts, but rather they shall be allocated an undivided percentage interest, denominated in units, in the entire L M Ericsson Stock Fund, representing the portion of the Fund
allocated to their Accounts. The accounting methods or formulae selected by the Committee may be revised from time to time in order to accomplish the foregoing purposes, but shall at all times conform to the general principles in this Section 9.5.
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>9.6 Amendment to Vesting Schedule. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Although the Company reserves the right to amend the vesting schedule at any
time, the Employing Companies shall not amend the vesting schedule (and no amendment shall be effective) if the amendment would reduce the nonforfeitable percentage of any Participant&#146;s Accrued Benefit derived from Company Matching
Contributions (determined as of the later of the date the Employing Companies adopt the amendment, or the date the amendment becomes effective) to a percentage less than the nonforfeitable percentage computed under the Plan without regard to the
amendment. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In the event the vesting schedule of this Plan is
amended, any Participant who has completed at least two (2) years of Vesting Service may elect to have his Accrued Benefit computed under the Plan without regard to such amendment by notifying the Committee in writing during the election period
hereinafter described. The election period shall begin on the date such amendment is adopted and shall end no earlier than the latest of the following dates: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(a) The date that is sixty (60) days after the day such amendment is adopted; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(b) The date that is sixty (60) days after the day such amendment becomes effective; or </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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amendment by the Committee. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Any election made pursuant to this
Section shall be irrevocable. The Committee, as soon as practicable, shall forward a true copy of any amendment to the vesting schedule to each affected Participant, together with an explanation of the effect of the amendment, the appropriate form
upon which the Participant may make an election to remain under the vesting schedule provided under the Plan prior to the amendment, and notice of the time within which the Participant must make an election to remain under the prior vesting
schedule. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>9.7 Alternative Forms of Benefit. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Although the Company and its authorized delegates reserve the right to amend
the Plan at any time and in any manner, no such amendment shall eliminate or reduce an early retirement benefit or a retirement-type subsidy or eliminate an optional form of benefit with respect to benefits attributable to Service before the
amendment. Moreover, neither any current provision of the Plan nor any amendment to the Plan shall restrict the availability of an alternative form of benefit to a certain select group or classification of Participants or Beneficiaries which favor
the &#147;prohibited group,&#148; or restrict or deny a Participant through the withholding of consent or the exercise of discretion by some person or persons other than the Participant and, where relevant, his spouse, of an alternative form of
benefit. For purposes of this Section, Plan provisions will be considered to favor the prohibited group if the group of Employees to whom the benefit is available does not satisfy either the seventy percent test of Code section 410(b)(1) or the
non-discriminatory classification test of Code section 410(b)(2). For purposes of this Section, an alternative form of benefit encompasses the different forms of benefit payment available under the Plan which provide that (a) a Participant&#146;s
benefits under the Plan may be paid in more than one form, or (b) payment of a particular form of benefit may commence at some time earlier or later than the normal date for the commencement of such benefit. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>9.8 Payment of Expenses. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Except as provided below, all expenses incident to the administration,
termination, and protection of the Plan and Trust, including but not limited to legal, accounting, and Trustee fees, may be paid by the Employing Companies, or, in the absence of such payments (which are not obligatory), shall be paid from the Trust
Fund, and until paid, shall constitute a first and prior claim and lien against the Trust Fund. However, any and all expenses relating to settlor functions that arise from the creation, design or termination of the Plan must be paid by the Employing
Company and may not be paid by the Trust Fund. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>9.9 Designation of
Beneficiaries. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">A Participant may file with the Committee
or its designee a designation of a Beneficiary or Beneficiaries with respect to all or part of the assets in the Account of the Participant. The designation of Beneficiary filed with the Committee or its designee may be changed or revoked by the
Participant. All designations, changes and revocations of designations, shall be in the form prescribed by the Committee and must be received by the Committee or its designee prior to the death of the Participant. Upon the death of a Participant,
the assets in his account with respect to which such a designation is valid and enforceable shall be distributed in accordance with the Plan to the Beneficiary or Beneficiaries designated. Assets in the Participant&#146;s account </FONT>
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">not affected by such a written designation shall be distributed to the person or persons (share and share alike) in the first of the classes of successive
preference Beneficiaries then surviving the Participant, as follows: (i) spouse, (ii) children, (iii) parents, (iv) brothers and sisters, (v) executors or administrators. Notwithstanding the above, if a married Participant seeks to designate a
Beneficiary other than the spouse of such Participant, the designation shall not be effective unless (a) such spouse shall consent in writing to the designation, the designation designates a Beneficiary (or a form of benefits) that may not be
changed without spousal consent (or the consent of the spouse expressly permits designations by the Participant without any requirement of further spousal consent), the spouse acknowledges the effect of such designation, and such consent is
witnessed by a Plan representative or a notary public, or (b) it is established to the satisfaction of a Plan representative that the consent described in (a) may not be obtained because there is no spouse, the spouse cannot be located or other
circumstances as may be prescribed under Regulations to be issued by the Secretary of the Treasury. Any consent by a spouse (or establishment that consent of a spouse may not be obtained) shall be effective only with respect to such spouse.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary above, to the extent permitted or required by applicable law, no one may be a Beneficiary hereunder if he or she is guilty of the murder of a Participant, or the aiding or abetting, solicitation of, or
conspiracy to commit such murder. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>9.10 Participant&#146;s Annual Statement
- - Audits. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">There shall be furnished to each Participant at
least annually a statement that will include: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(a) the amount
of his Account, if any, invested in the then available Plan investment funds, and the Current Market Value of each such investment fund subaccount; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(b) the number of units, if any, of the L M Ericsson Stock Fund credited to his Account; and </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(c) such other information as may be required by ERISA or as the Committee may from time to time consider appropriate.
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The accounts of the Trustee shall be audited annually by
auditors selected by the Committee. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>9.11 Limitation on Contributions.
</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(a) Notwithstanding anything in this Plan to the
contrary, the maximum Annual Addition that may be made to the Account of any Participant during any Plan Year (which shall be the limitation year hereunder) shall be an amount equal to $40,000 (or such larger amount determined by the Secretary of
the Treasury for purposes of Code section 415(c)(1)(A) pursuant to Code section 415(d)) or, if less, one-hundred percent (100%) of the Participant&#146;s Compensation from the Employing Companies and all Related Employers (as defined in Code
sections 414(b) and (c) but as modified by Code section 415(h)) for such year. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">For purposes of this Section, all defined contribution plans of the Employing Companies, whether or not terminated, shall be treated as one defined contribution plan. In addition, all employers who are members of the
same controlled group of corporations (within the meaning of </FONT>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Code sections 414(b) and (c), as modified by section 415(h) of the Code) as the Company shall be treated as a single employer for purposes of this Section.
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(b)<B> </B>If in any Plan Year a Participant&#146;s Annual
Addition would exceed the maximum limitation determined under Sections 9.11(a) above (referred to as &#147;Excess Annual Additions&#148;) and the Participant is eligible but has not yet elected and made the maximum Catch-up Contributions pursuant to
Section 3.5 for the Plan Year, to the maximum extent possible, such Excess Annual Additions shall be recharacterized as Catch-up Contributions for the Plan Year. Any Company Matching Contributions that have been made on any Excess Annual Additions
that are recharacterized as Catch-up Contributions shall be forfeited and used to reduce future Company Matching Contributions and/or Company Cap Contributions. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">To the extent any Excess Annual Additions cannot be recharacterized as Catch-up Contributions, such excess shall not be allocated to the
Participant&#146;s Account hereunder or to any accounts in any other defined contribution plan, but shall instead be handled in the following manner and order (unless applicable nondiscrimination or other rules require otherwise) until such excess
is eliminated&#151; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(1) the
Participant&#146;s Employee Savings Contributions or any part thereof (plus earnings thereon to the extent permitted by law) shall be refunded to the Participant; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(2) the Participant&#146;s portion of the allocation of Company Matching Contributions or any part thereof
shall be placed in a suspense account as provided below; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(3) the Participant&#146;s portion of the allocation of Employee CAP Contributions or any part thereof (plus earnings thereon to the extent permitted by law) shall be refunded to the Participant. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(4) the Participant&#146;s portion of the allocation of
Company CAP Contribution s or any part thereof (plus earnings thereon to the extent permitted by law) shall be placed in a suspense account as provided below; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The amounts referenced in (2) and (4) above shall be placed in a suspense account to the extent that the excess Annual Addition is caused by an
allocation of forfeitures, a reasonable error in estimating a Participant&#146;s Eligible Salary, a reasonable error in determining the amount of Employee CAP Contributions that may be made with respect to any Participant under the limits of Code
section 415, or other limited facts and circumstances approved by the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service. The amounts placed in such suspense account shall be held unallocated for the limitation year (which shall be the Plan Year) in which
such excess arose, and shall be allocated and reallocated in the next following Plan Year to all Participants by way of reducing Company contributions, as more fully provided in Treasury Regulation section 1.415-6(b)(6)(iii). Such suspense account
shall share in the gains and losses of the Trust Fund on the same basis as other Accounts. The above reductions shall be applied to any other defined contribution plans first, and thereafter to this Plan. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In the event of any merger or consolidation of the Plan with, or transfer in whole or in part of the assets and liabilities of the Trust to, another fund
held under any other plan of deferred compensation maintained or to be established for the benefit of all or some of the Participants in this Plan or their Beneficiaries, the assets of this Plan applicable to such Participants or their Beneficiaries
may be transferred to the other fund only if such other plan and trust are qualified under the Code, such transferee plan authorizes and accepts such transfer of assets and liabilities, and each Participant and Beneficiary would (if the other plan
then terminated) receive a benefit immediately after the merger, consolidation or transfer which is equal to or greater than the benefit he would have been entitled to receive immediately before the merger, consolidation or transfer if this Plan had
then terminated. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>9.13 Distribution. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Distributions, including withdrawals, shall be made as follows: </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(a) Ericsson ADRs in full shares and in cash for any fractional share
value with respect to the number of such ADRs represented by L M Ericsson Stock Fund units allocated to the Participant&#146;s Account, plus cash for the portion of such units not actually invested in L M Ericsson ADRs); provided, however, that the
Participant may elect to receive cash in lieu of such shares, in which case he will receive, for each such share, the actual price thereof as of the Valuation Date on which the distribution is processed (less any withholding taxes that may apply).
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(b) In cash with respect to investments made in the
Plan&#146;s investment funds other than Ericsson ADRs. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>9.14 Governing Law.
</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Plan shall be governed by and construed in accordance
with the laws of the State of North Carolina, except where preempted by Federal law. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2"><B>9.15 Amendment of Plan. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(a) General.
</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">This Plan may be amended by the Company, acting through
its Chief Executive Officer, Board, or any other delegate, at any time and in any manner, as long as, as amended, the Plan continues to be for the exclusive benefit of Employees. However, no amendment shall reduce the Account of any Participant as
of the date of such amendment. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(b) Amendment by Committee.
</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">This Plan may also be amended by the Committee, provided
the amendment either (a) is deemed by the Committee to be required or advisable with respect to applicable law, or (b) does not materially increase the cost of the Plan to the Company.<U></U> </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(a) General. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Company intends to continue this Plan indefinitely but reserves the right to terminate it at any time by action through its Chief Executive Officer,
Board, or any other delegate (including the Committee). Subject to Article XI, each Employing Company may also withdraw from its participation in the Plan at any time. If this Plan is completely or partially terminated, or if there is a complete
discontinuance of contributions under this Plan by the Company, then, all amounts credited to the Accounts of affected Participants shall be 100 percent vested. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>9.17 Employment. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">This Plan shall not give any Employee or Participant any right to be continued in the employment of any Employing Company or Related Employer. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>9.18 Delegation of Fiduciary or Administrative Responsibilities. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Company and/or the Committee may at any time delegate to any other named
person or body (including a subset of the full Committee), or reassume therefrom, any of their respective fiduciary responsibilities or administrative duties with respect to this Plan, including the power to delegate and reassume such
responsibilities and duties by written action naming the person or body to whom the responsibility has been delegated. However, only the immediate delegatee of the Company or of the Committee, as the case may be, may, if so authorized by the Company
or said Committee, delegate any such responsibilities or duties. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>9.19 Named
Fiduciary. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The named fiduciary with respect to this Plan
is the Company, acting by and through the Committee, except that as to any matter specified in this Plan or in the Trust Agreement as being the responsibility or function of the Trustee or the Investment Manager, the named fiduciary is such Trustee
or Investment Manager. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>ARTICLE X </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>TOP HEAVY PLAN PROVISIONS<U></U> </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>10.1 General. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If, as of the Determination Date, the Plan shall be a Top-Heavy Plan, as defined in Section 10.2, the provisions of this
Article X shall apply. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Determination Date with respect to
the first Plan Year of this Plan shall be the last day of such Plan Year. For all subsequent Plan Years, the Determination Date shall be the last day of the preceding Plan Year. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>10.2 Top Heavy Determination. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(a) The Plan shall be considered a Top-Heavy Plan, if, as of the Determination Date, either: </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(1) the aggregate of all Account balances of Key Employees
under the Plan exceeds 60% of the aggregate of all Account balances of all Participants under the Plan excluding former Key Employees, or </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(2) the Plan is part of a Top-Heavy Group, as defined in Section 10.5. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(b) For purposes of determining whether the Top Heavy rules apply for any
Plan Year: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(1) if any individual has not
performed services for the Employing Companies at any time during the one (1) year period ending on the Determination Date, any Account Balance (and any accrued benefit) for such individual shall not be taken into account; </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(2) any Account balance for a Participant who is not
currently a Key Employee, but at one time was a Key Employee, shall not be recognized for the Plan Year ending on the Determination Date; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(3) certain rollover contributions shall not be taken into account to the extent so provided in applicable Treasury Regulations; and
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(4) the Account balance for any Participant
shall include aggregate distributions made with respect to such Participant under the Plan during the one (1) year period ending on the Determination Date (five (5) year period for distributions made for reasons other than death, disability, or
severance from employment) including distributions made to former Key Employees excluded above, but shall not include certain trust-to-trust transfers or rollover contributions to the extent so provided in applicable Treasury Regulations.
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>10.3 Key Employee. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#147;Key Employee&#148; means a Participant in the Plan (including a
beneficiary of such Participant), with respect to the Plan Year, who at anytime during the Plan Year that includes the Determination Date is (or was): </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(a) An officer of the Employer whose annual Compensation is in excess of $130,000, as adjusted for cost-of-living increases at the same time and in the
same manner as the adjustments made to Code section 416(i)(1)(A)(i) by the Secretary of the Treasury; provided, however, the maximum number of officers may not exceed (i) three (3) if the Employer has less than 30 employees, (ii) ten percent (10%)
of the Employer&#146;s employees if the Employer employs more than 30 but less than 500 employees, or (iii) 50 if the Employer employs more than 500 employees. For purposes of determining the number of officers taken into account under this
paragraph, employees described in Code section 414(q)(8) shall be disregarded. Officers shall only include those administrative executives who regularly and continuously serve as such. Title shall not be determinative of officer status; </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(b) An individual who is a 5-percent owner of the Employer within the
meaning of Code section 416(i)(1)(B)(i); or </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(c) An individual
who is a 1-percent owner of the Employer within the meaning of Code section 416(i)(1)(B)(ii), and whose annual Compensation exceeds $150,000. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">For purposes of this Section, Key Employee shall include any beneficiary of such Key Employee or former
Key Employee. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Notwithstanding anything above to the contrary,
the criteria used in the determination of Key Employees shall be consistent with Code section 416(i)(l) and the Treasury Regulations thereunder, which are incorporated herein by reference. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>10.4 Non-Key Employee. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#147;Non-Key Employee&#148; shall mean any participant who is not a Key Employee as defined herein and any Beneficiary of a
Non-Key Employee. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>10.5 Top-Heavy Group. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#147;Top-Heavy Group&#148; shall mean an aggregation group where the sum as
of the Determination Date of (a) the present value of the cumulative Accrued Benefits for Key Employees under any defined benefit plans included in the group, and (b) the sum of the Account balances of Key Employees under any defined contribution
plans included in the group, exceeds 60% of the same amount determined from all Participants excluding former Key Employees, under all plans included in the group. The Accrued Benefit of any Non-Key Employee shall be determined (i) under the method
which is used for accrual purposes for all plans of the Employing Company or Related Employer, or (ii) if there is no method described in (i), as if such benefit accrued not more rapidly than the slowest accrual rate permitted under Code section
411(b)(1)(C). For purposes of this section, the Determination Date means (i) the last day of the preceding Plan Year if the Plan is not included in an aggregation group, or (ii) if the Plan is included in an aggregation group, the Determination Date
as determined under (i) above that falls within the same calendar year of each other plan included in such aggregation group. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The aggregation group must include (a) each plan of the Employing Company or Related Employer in which a Key Employee participates, and (b) any other plan
on which a plan covering a Key Employee depends for qualification under the requirements of Code section 401(a)(4) and 410. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The aggregation group may also include, at the election of the Company, any plan not required to be included in an aggregation group if such group would
continue to meet the qualification requirements of Code sections 401(a)(4) and 410. If such an aggregation group is found not to be Top-Heavy, then no plan in the group shall be considered Top-Heavy. If the aggregation group is found to be
Top-Heavy, then the plan which was not required to be included would not be considered a Top-Heavy Plan solely by reason of the group being Top-Heavy. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>10.6 Minimum Contribution. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If the Plan is or becomes a Top-Heavy Plan, then notwithstanding any other provisions herein other than as set forth in this Article, the minimum Company
contribution for the Plan Year for each eligible Non-Key Employee shall be three percent (3%) of such Non-Key Employee&#146;s Compensation. For purposes of satisfying this requirement, Company Matching Contributions and Company CAP Contributions
otherwise required hereunder shall be taken into </FONT>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">account, but Employee CAP Contributions and Catch-up Contributions may not be counted for this purpose. Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence,
the minimum Company contribution that must be provided for any eligible Non-Key Employee for a Plan Year shall instead be the largest percentage of Compensation provided on behalf of any Key Employee for that Plan Year (including Employee CAP
Contributions) if such Key Employee percentage is less than three percent (3%). For purposes of this Section, an &#147;eligible Non-Key Employee&#148; is any Non-Key Employee Participant who is employed by an Employing Company on the last day of the
Plan Year, regardless of (a) whether such Non-Key Employee has completed one thousand (1,000) Hours of Service, (b) whether such Non-Key Employee has made Employee CAP Contributions, Catch-up Contributions or Employee Savings Contributions to the
Plan, or (c) the level of the Non-Key Employee&#146;s Compensation. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2">In the case of a Top-Heavy Group, no minimum contribution will be required (or the minimum contribution will be reduced, as the case may be) for a Participant under this Plan for any Plan Year if the Employing Company maintains another
qualified plan under which a minimum benefit or contribution is being accrued or made for such year in whole or in part for the Participant in accordance with Code section 416(c) and the regulations thereunder. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>ARTICLE XI </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>EMPLOYER PARTICIPATION<U></U> </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>11.1 Adoption by Employer. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Subject to the further provisions of this Article, any Subsidiary, provided
it is a member of the same controlled group of corporations or trades or businesses under common control (as defined in Code sections 414(b) or 414(c)) as the Company, now in existence or hereafter formed or acquired, or, whether or not a member of
the same controlled group, is approved by the Company, and which is otherwise legally eligible, may, with the consent and approval of the Board or Committee, by formal resolution or decision of its own board of directors, adopt the Plan and the
trust agreement executed pursuant to the terms of the Plan (the &#147;Trust&#148;) and, if deemed necessary by the Company or Committee, execute an Adoption Agreement, for all or any classification of its employees. Such adoption shall be
effectuated and evidenced by a formal resolution of the Board or Committee consenting to and containing or incorporating by reference such formal resolution or decision of the adopting Subsidiary. The adoption resolution or decision shall become, as
to such adopting Subsidiary and its employees, a part of the Plan as then or subsequently amended. It shall not be necessary for the adopting Subsidiary to sign or execute the Plan document, but, if deemed necessary by the Company or Committee, such
Subsidiary must complete and execute an Adoption Agreement. The effective date of the Plan for any such adopting Subsidiary shall be that stated in the resolution or decision of adoption of the adopting Subsidiary, and from and after such effective
date, the adopting Subsidiary shall assume all the rights, obligations and liabilities of an Employing Company hereunder. The administrative powers and control of the Company, as now or hereafter provided in the Plan, including the Company&#146;s
sole right of amendment of the Plan and Trust and of appointment and removal of the Committee and Trustee, together with their successors, shall not be diminished by reason of the participation of any such adopting Subsidiary in the Plan and Trust.
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 2.1(a) of the Plan, any Subsidiary, by action of its board of directors and notice
to the Company, Committee, and the Trustee, may withdraw from the Plan and Trust at any time without affecting other Employing Companies not withdrawing, by complying with the provisions of the Plan. A withdrawing Subsidiary may arrange for the
continuation by itself or its successor of this Plan in separate form for its own Employees with such amendments, if any, as it may deem proper, or it may arrange for continuation of the Plan by merger with an existing plan and trust qualified under
sections 401(a) and 501(a) of the Code and transfer of such portion of the Trust assets as the Committee determines are allocable to the Subsidiary and its employees who are Participants. The Company or Committee may, in its absolute discretion,
terminate a Subsidiary&#146;s participation at any time when (1) the Subsidiary ceases to be a member of the Company&#146;s controlled group of corporations or in the same group of trades or businesses under common control, (2) in the Company&#146;s
or Committee&#146;s judgment such Subsidiary fails or refuses to discharge its obligations under the Plan following such prior notice and opportunity to cure as may be appropriate under the circumstances, or (3) in the Company&#146;s or
Committee&#146;s judgment, such Subsidiary should not be allowed to continue to participate. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>11.3 Adoption Contingent Upon Initial and Continued Qualification. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The adoption of the Plan and Trust by a Subsidiary as provided in Section 11.1 is made contingent and subject to the condition precedent that the adopting
Subsidiary meets all the statutory requirements for qualified plans under the Code for its Employees. The adopting Subsidiary may, or at the request of the Company or Committee shall, request an initial letter of determination from the appropriate
District Director of Internal Revenue to the effect that the Plan and Trust, as herein set forth or as amended with respect to the adopting Subsidiary, satisfy the requirements of the applicable federal statutes for tax qualification purposes for
such adopting Subsidiary and its employees. In the event the Plan or the Trust in its operation becomes disqualified for any reason as to such adopting Subsidiary and its employees, the portion of the Trust fund allocable to them shall be segregated
as soon as is administratively feasible, pending either (1) the prompt requalification of the Plan and Trust as to such Subsidiary and its employees to the satisfaction of the Internal Revenue Service, so as not to affect the continued qualified
status of the Plan and Trust as to all other Employees, or (2) as provided in Section 11.2 above, the prompt withdrawal of such Subsidiary from this Plan and Trust and a continuation by itself or its successor of a plan and a trust separately from
this Plan and Trust, or by merger with another existing qualified plan and trust with a transfer of its said segregated portion of Trust assets, or (3) the prompt termination of the Plan and Trust as to itself and its employees. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>11.4 No Joint Venture Implied. </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The adoption of the Plan by any Subsidiary shall not create a joint venture
or partnership relation between it and any other Employing Company. Any rights, duties, liabilities and obligations assumed or incurred hereunder by any Employing Company, or imposed upon any Employing Company by the provisions of the Plan, shall
relate to and affect such Employing Company alone. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<U>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</U> day of <U>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</U>, 2004, but to be effective, except
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><U>EXHIBIT 4.2
</U></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">TRANSLATION </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>OF </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>STOCKHOLM </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Org. No 556016-0680 </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#167;1 </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The name of the
Company is Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson. The company is a public company (publ). </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#167;2 </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The objects of the Company are, after
taking over the business of Stockholms Allm&auml;nna Telefonaktiebolag and Aktiebolaget LM Ericsson &amp; Co: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">to carry on workshops business and trade; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">to
acquire, set up, carry on and trade in electric and other plants; and </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">to carry on other activities consistent therewith. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#167;3 </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Registered Office of the Board of Directors of the Company is in Stockholm. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#167;4 </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Share Capital shall amount to no less than six thousand million (6,000,000,000) kronor and no more than twentyfour thousand million
(24,000,000,000) kronor. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#167;5 </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The nominal value of each Share shall be one krona (SEK 1.00). </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#167;6 </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Shares may be issued in three series, A, B and C. If Shares are issued in different series, Shares of series A may be issued to a total
amount of no more than ninety-nine hundred parts and no less than one hundredth part of the total Share Capital of the Company. Shares of series C may be issued to a maximum amount of 158,000,000. In voting at a General Meeting each Share of series
A confers one vote, each Share of series B one tenth part of one vote and each Share of series C one thousandth part of one vote. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">During the period from 20 September up to and including 10 December 2004, a Share of series B may be converted to a Share
of series A by holders of such a special conversion right as was resolved upon at an Extraordinary General Meeting on 31 August 2004. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Request for conversion shall be addressed to the Company within the above-mentioned period and shall specify the number of Shares of series B that shall be converted to
Shares of series A. The request shall be made in writing on a separate form and cannot be revoked. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Company shall apply for registration of the conversion once a month in the period September - December 2004, and the conversion is effected following a registration and an entry in the Company&#146;s Share
Register. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Paragraphs two, three, four and five of this section will expire on
31 January 2005 and will thereafter no longer be subject of registration. Application in this respect shall be made by the Company. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#167;7 </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If the Company decides to issue new series A, B and series C shares through a cash issue, each owner of series A, Band C shares has a preemptive right to subscribe to new shares of the same type in proportion to the
number of old shares that the shareholder owns (primary preemptive rights). Shares not subscribed through primary preemptive rights shall be offered for subscription to all shareholders (subsidiary preemptive rights). If the number of shares so
offered is less than the number subscribed through subsidiary preemptive rights, the shares shall be distributed among the subscribers in proportion to the number of old shares they own or, to the extent that is not possible, by lot. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If the Company decides to issue through a cash issue new shares either of series A, B or
series C only, all shareholders, regardless of whether their shares are series A, B or series C, are entitled to preemptive rights to subscribe to the new shares in proportion to the number of old shares they own. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The above conditions shall not restrict in any way the possibility of deciding on a cash
issue entailing exceptions to the shareholders&#146; preemptive rights. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In the
case of an increase in share capital through a bonus issue, new shares of each series shall be issued in proportion to the number of shares of the same type previously on issue. In such a case, old shares of each type entitle the holder to new
shares of the same type. The aforesaid shall not restrict in any way the possibility of issuing shares of a new type through a bonus issue after the requisite changes have been made in the Articles of Association. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#167;8 </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">A person who is recorded in the Share Register or in the special register pursuant to Chapter 3, section 12 of the Companies&#146; Act
(1975:1385) on the record date shall be considered authorized as a Shareholder to receive dividend and, in connection with a bonus issue, new Shares and to exercise the Shareholder&#146;s preferential right to participate in an issue. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Board of Directors, which is to be elected yearly at the Annual General Meeting for the period until the end of the next Annual General Meeting, shall consist of no
fewer than five and no more than twelve Directors with no more than six Deputy Directors. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#167;10 </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">At the Annual General Meeting, three
Auditors and no more than three Deputy Auditors, shall be elected for the period until the end of the Annual General Meeting taking place during the fourth financial year after the election of Auditors. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Board of Directors is authorized to appoint one or several special auditors to audit the
Board of Directors&#146; statement that is made in relation to an issue for non-cash consideration or payment through set-off of claims against the Company or other provisions for the subscription according to Chapter 4, &#167; 6 of the Swedish
Companies&#146; Act (1975:1385), or audit of merger plans according to Chapter 14, &#167;&#167; 7 and 23 of said Act. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#167;11 </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The financial year of the Company shall be the calendar year. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#167;12 </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The following matters shall be dealt
with at the Annual General Meeting: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">election of a Chairman at the General Meeting; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">preparation and approval of a voting list; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">approval of the agenda; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">examination whether the Meeting has been properly convened; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="4%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">5.</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">election of two persons to check the minutes; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="4%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">6.</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">presentation of the Annual Report and the Auditors&#146; report and of the Consolidated Accounts and the Auditors&#146; report on the Group; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="4%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">7.</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">resolutions in respect to </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="4%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">a.</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">adoption of the Profit and Loss Statement and the Balance Sheet and of the Consolidated Profit and Loss Statement and the Consolidated Balance Sheet, </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="4%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">b.</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the Directors&#146; and the Managing Directors&#146; discharge from liability, </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="4%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">c.</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">appropriation of the Company&#146;s profit or loss according to the adopted Balance Sheet; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">determining the number of Directors, Deputy Directors and Deputy Auditors; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">determining the remuneration payable to the Board of Directors and to the Auditors; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">elections of Directors and of Deputy Directors; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">when appropriate elections of Auditors and of Deputy Auditors; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="4%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">12.</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">other matters which according to the Companies&#146; Act (1975:1385) shall be dealt with at the Meeting. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#167;13 </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Chairman of the Board of Directors, or if he is prevented, another Director appointed thereto by the Board of Directors, opens the General Meeting and presides the
deliberations until a Chairman has been elected by voting. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2">&#167;14 </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">At a General Meeting every person, who is entitled to vote,
may vote for the full number of Shares owned and represented by him without any restriction in the number of votes. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#167;15 </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Notice convening
a General Meeting shall be issued through announcement in Post- och Inrikes Tidningar as well as in Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet or another nation-wide covering daily paper. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#167;16 </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In order to be admitted to a General Meeting, a Shareholder shall have given notice of his attendance to the Company not later than 4.00 p.m. on the day mentioned in the
notice convening the Meeting, at which time also the number of advisors shall be stated. This day may not be a Sunday, any other public holiday, Saturday, Midsummer&#146;s eve, Christmas Eve or New Year&#146;s eve and may not fall earlier than five
weekdays before the General Meeting. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#167;17 </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Shares of series C shall entail a right to an annual dividend from the Company&#146;s assets
with an amount equivalent to STIBOR with terms to maturity of 360 days commencing from April 30 one year up to and including April 30 the following year and calculated on the nominal amount of the Company&#146;s share. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">During the period from June 1 - June 15 each year, the Company&#146;s Board of Directors is
authorized to decide on a reduction of the share capital through redemption of all series C shares. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In conjunction with the adoption of a resolution regarding redemption, holders of series C shares shall be obliged to surrender their shares for an amount equal to the nominal amount of the shares. Payment of the
redemption amount shall take place immediately. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#167;18
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Company&#146;s Board of Directors is authorized to convert all series C
shares to shares of series B when the Company holds the shares. Conversion shall be notified for registration without delay and be effected upon registration. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><HR WIDTH="17%" SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">August 2004
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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</U></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANTS </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We hereby consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement on Form
S-8 of our report dated February 6, 2004, relating to the financial statements, which is included in Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson&#146;s Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2003. </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers AB </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">PricewaterhouseCoopers AB </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Stockholm, Sweden </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">January 27, 2005 </FONT></P> <P
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