Telefonplan metro station ("Telephone Square") is an outdoor station on Line 14 in the

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. The station is located in the borough of

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. It was opened on 5 April 1964 as part of the first stretch of Metro 2, between

T-Centralen T-Centralen (Swedish for "The T-Central"; T being an abbreviation for "tunnelbana", the Swedish word for "underground" or "subway") is a metro station that forms the heart of the Stockholm metro system, in the sense that it is the only station ...

and

Fruängen Fruängen (''Wife Meadow'') is a district of the Hägersten-Liljeholmen borough in Söderort, the southern suburban part of Stockholm. It was built in the early 1950s. All the streets are named after famous Swedish women like Agnes Lagerstedt, ...

. Unlike most of the stations lying nearby, namely among others Midsommarkransen and

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, the station's name does not refer to any specific area or a specific suburb. Instead, the station's name refers to a small square situated just west of the station's main entrance. The subway station initially mainly served the

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headquarters, Ericsson's main factory and the nearby serviced apartments of its workers. Ericsson's headquarters moved to

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in 2003. Nowadays, the facilities of the factory have been taken over by the Swedish University College of Arts, and there are plans to build a design center close to the station. The area immediately east of the station is partially a construction site for new residential buildings, and plans to reconstruct the underground station as well as the whole area of Telefonplan are well developed. There were plans to build two skyscrapers named

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, which would have had an entrance from the metro station. This plan is being reevaluated as of 2020.

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club

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is situated a few hundred meters from the station, making the station and the area more crowded at nighttime than ever before. The station also serves the inhabitants of Västberga, and buses to closely situated to Solberga and

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start from here.

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