Hans Vestberg

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

“We want to be on the edge of technology all of the time. We think long-term.”

“For every $10 you reduce the price of the smartphone, 100 million more people will buy them.”

“I read mails throughout the day but answer mails more in the morning and evening.”

“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.”

“Historically, the mobile industry has been focused on the consumer, getting better performance and throughput to their devices.”

“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 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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.”