Kista - Kista Kista is a borough of the city of Stockholm in Sweden. Located in the northern part of Stockholm, Kista is divided by the Stockholm Metro line (which runs 20 meters above the ground) into a western part with apartment buildings, and an eastern part, occupied by companies, mostly in the telecom and computer business. Business and Industry The industrial part of Kista began in the mid 70s, with companies such as SRA (Svenska Radio Aktiebolaget, now a part of Ericsson), RIFA (now Ericsson Microelectronics) and IBM Svenska AB (the Swedish operations of IBM). The number of employees in Eastern Kista is now in the range of 25,000 to 35,000..
Wireless Valley - Sweden. This also included a number of companies that saw themselves as belonging to the new information based economy. The nickname was based on an analogy to California's Silicon Valley and reflected the hopes of trying to mimic that success. Ericsson, the worlds leading supplier in telecommunications has one of its main plants in the Stockholm suburb of Kista. Finland also has a high-tech area in Espoo, sometimes called "Wireless Valley", based around Nokia..
