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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.
When I look into the Ericsson’s mobility report that has predictions till 2018, the majority of people having mobile broadband by 2018 will be on 3G.
India is an important market for Ericsson, not only as a telecom market but also as a global hub for R&D.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
When you start losing market share, it’s really tough to gain it back; you need the product portfolio and presence in many markets.
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.
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.
If I am in Sweden, I try to get home to be with my children. I can do work after that from home.
Historically, the mobile industry has been focused on the consumer, getting better performance and throughput to their devices.
By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We want to be on the edge of technology all of the time. We think long-term.
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.
I was taking a break from university so I could play handball full-time for a year.
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.
I have rules for everything.
