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
basically became contracted dramatic people
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.
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.
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.
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!'
aware demanding network networks performance
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.
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.
consumer decided founded products
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.
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.
hub
India is an important market for Ericsson, not only as a telecom market but also as a global hub for R&D.
player trying
I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
taking
I was taking a break from university so I could play handball full-time for a year.
korean
Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
performance
Historically, the mobile industry has been focused on the consumer, getting better performance and throughput to their devices.
devices networks top users
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.