Zitat des Tages von Hans Vestberg:
I was taking a break from university so I could play handball full-time for a year.
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.
You don't need to recall 100,000 cars because you need to fix something. That can be done with a download of software.
Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
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!'
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.
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.
If I am in Sweden, I try to get home to be with my children. I can do work after that from home.
India is an important market for Ericsson, not only as a telecom market but also as a global hub for R&D.
I read mails throughout the day but answer mails more in the morning and evening.
We want to be on the edge of technology all of the time. We think long-term.
I said we're going to leave phones, and so we did. We sold it to Sony.
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 need to build my team around my weaknesses.
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.
For us to stay competitive, we're transforming our services business to be reliable and flexible.
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.
We have the global scale, but not everyone has 4G in the world.
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.
My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.
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.
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.
