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All Quotes by author - Hans Vestberg

" By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa. "

" Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside. "

" For every $10 you reduce the price of the smartphone, 100 million more people will buy them. "

" For us, it is very important all the time that our core business is really good but that we don't stop moving. "

" For us to stay competitive, we're transforming our services business to be reliable and flexible. "

" For us, we are moving a company that has been around for 137 years to the next level so that we can be there for the next 137 years. "

" Historically, the mobile industry has been focused on the consumer, getting better performance and throughput to their devices. "

" I believe in free trade. I don't support regulating trade prices between different regions. Our point of view is we don't want trade barriers between different countries. "

" I believe mobile technology has a much broader role to play. It could solve some of the biggest problems on earth. "

" If I am in Sweden, I try to get home to be with my children. I can do work after that from home. "

" I have rules for everything. "

" I manage my business; politicians are doing their business. I can only work within their rules and regulations. I can't pick up a political fight. "

" India is an important market for Ericsson, not only as a telecom market but also as a global hub for R&D. "

" I need to build my team around my weaknesses. "

" In order to have the next generation of modems, you would need to pour in even more R&D spending. We came to the conclusion that we're going to have a tough time to really see that we are going to succeed in the modems business. "

" I read mails throughout the day but answer mails more in the morning and evening. "

" I said we're going to leave phones, and so we did. We sold it to Sony. "

" I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there. "

" It is users that are driving the networks with innovations on top of the networks and with innovations in the devices space. This is very healthy. "

" It is very difficult for me to speculate as to how long it will take for the LTE-TDD ecosystem to mature. Of course, the whole industry is speaking of scale and a combination of scale in order to get more efficiency in the ecosystem. "

" It's always great to have a purpose of a meeting and an ending for it, but it's even more important to be present and have an engagement on the topic you're doing, to create an environment and energy around that meeting, so everybody goes from there, 'That's great; we can take it forward!' "

" I was taking a break from university so I could play handball full-time for a year. "

" Men can't do much to change; we have to wear suits, although I never wear a tie, apart from in Asia sometimes. So I decided to grow my hair. "

" My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself. "

" No day is similar to another, but usually mail is part of my start of the day. Our company never sleeps: we have business in 180 countries, so there are no real mornings or nights. "

" Our take was that if we are going to support our customers, we have to help them with video distribution, whether that is iPad, TV, small screen or large screen. "

" Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies. "

" The infrastructure we provide is the same in a remote town in Africa or New York or an archipelago in Sweden: we use the same system, and the chips inside the phone are the same. "

" The IT bubble is the IT bubble, and of course, we became a company that contracted dramatically in 2001 and 2002: we basically came down by 45,000 people - a dramatic ramp-down. "

" There are so many devices that can receive video, creating complexities, because suddenly you can have a TV, laptop, smartphone, pads. And they are of different sizes. It's clear that you need to standardise and get a much more efficient TV delivery. "

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