Hans Vestberg Quotes

Hans Vestberg

Profession : Businessman

Birth : June 23, 1965

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

Hans Vestberg

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.

Hans Vestberg

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!'

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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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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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You can always think that we're old and not innovative, but there is no company that can limp on for 139 years without being creative and having the genes to change.

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I have rules for everything.

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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.

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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.

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

Hans Vestberg

You don't need to recall 100,000 cars because you need to fix something. That can be done with a download of software.

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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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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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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.

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

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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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I need to build my team around my weaknesses.

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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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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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