 Richardson is an affluent inner suburb of Dallas.It is home to the University of Texas at Dallas and the Telecom Corridor, with a high concentration of telecommunications companies.More than 5,000 businesses have operations within Richardson's , including many of the world's largest telecommunications and networking companies, such as AT&T, Verizon, Cisco Systems, Samsung, ZTE, MetroPCS, Texas Instruments, Qorvo, and Fujitsu.