Swedish - Businessman | June 23, 1965 -
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.
Hans Vestberg
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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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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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We want to be on the edge of technology all of the time. We think long-term.
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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 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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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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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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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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