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" For us to stay competitive, we're transforming our services business to be reliable and flexible. "
Hans Vestberg
Competitive
Stay
Flexible
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" 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. "
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" We want to be number one, from the ingestion of content to the play-out to any type of channel. Everything between there, you should see Ericsson if you are a broadcaster, telecoms operator, or cable operator. "
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" 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. "
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" India is an important market for Ericsson, not only as a telecom market but also as a global hub for R&D. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" You're going to see this 'Internet of things' start demanding network performance and making the networks much more aware of what is on top of them. "
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" For every $10 you reduce the price of the smartphone, 100 million more people will buy them. "
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" We do a lot of consumer research. Consumers believe the smartphone will be the remote, meaning that it will orchestrate a lot of things. So maybe you will take your connectivity with you to the car. "
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" Historically, the mobile industry has been focused on the consumer, getting better performance and throughput to their devices. "
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" Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies. "
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" Today there are two points where a car manufacturer has interaction with you as an owner of a car. One, you buy the car. Two, you go to the car shop to repair the car. "
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" For us, it is very important all the time that our core business is really good but that we don't stop moving. "
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" We need to understand what innovation will be built on top of our networks. "
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" 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. "
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" When you start losing market share, it's really tough to gain it back; you need the product portfolio and presence in many markets. "
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" 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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" I need to build my team around my weaknesses. "
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" When I came into the CEO office, I basically changed the entire management team. We knew that we had to change the company, so we needed a new set of leaders. "
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" 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. "
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" What was really tough for me was that Lars Magnus Ericsson founded Ericsson in 1876; we've always had a consumer product. And I'm the 16th CEO of Ericsson, and I decided that we don't have any consumer products anymore. "
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" My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself. "
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" I said we're going to leave phones, and so we did. We sold it to Sony. "
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" I was taking a break from university so I could play handball full-time for a year. "
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" By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa. "
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