Hans Vestberg
Hans Vestberg
Hans Vestbergis a Swedish businessman and the former CEO of telecommunications company Ericsson...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth23 June 1965
CountrySweden
ecosystem industry scale speaking speculate
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.
people reduce
For every $10 you reduce the price of the smartphone, 100 million more people will buy them.
create ending energy engagement environment everybody goes great meeting present topic
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!'
business came conclusion generation next order pour time tough
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.
download recall
You don't need to recall 100,000 cars because you need to fix something. That can be done with a download of software.
believe car consumer consumers maybe
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.
basically came ceo change changed entire knew management needed
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.
large screen video whether
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.
devices efficient receive suddenly tv
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.
change genes limp
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.
buy car owner points shop
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.
discussion engagement extremely internal large matter preparing
When it comes to meetings and preparing for that, it doesn't matter if it's a meeting with the U.N.; with a large operator, CEO, or chairman; or if I have an internal meeting - in all cases, I know that the energy and the engagement in every discussion is extremely important.
barriers believe point prices trade
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.
chips provide remote town york
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.