The company's purpose is to trade in equipment for communication systems; to acquire, manage, exploit and transfer patents, trademarks and technical and industrial knowledge; to provide technical and administrative consulting services; to participate in other industrial and commercial companies, to establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad, and to conduct all business directly or indirectly related to the aforementioned purposes. The company may conduct financing transactions, grant loans to third parties, as well as to the direct and indirect shareholders of the company and group companies, and provide security of all kinds for their liabilities to third parties, including pledges, security assignments and guarantees, even if these loans or securities are in the exclusive interest of their direct or indirect shareholders or other group companies and are granted free of charge.