Ericsson launches closed captioning service in U.S. to provide live subtitling for broadcasters and operators.

  • Ericsson will establish closed captioning hub in Atlanta, Georgia to meet growing demand in the United States and abroad
  • Ericsson is the largest provider of closed captioning in Europe, delivering more than 200,000 hours of captions per year to major broadcasters and operators
  • The service will aim to meet the new regulations outlined by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), intended to increase the quality of captioning services, and to provide smoother and more accurate closed-captioned communications across a wider-reach of programming

Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) today announced the United States launch of a closed captioning service, a service which displays text on a television, video screen, or other visual display to provide additional or interpretive information. The company will establish a broadcast and media services hub based in Atlanta, Georgia to provide closed captioning and video description services to both domestic and international clients effective from April 2015.

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