Quotes from Hans Vestberg

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.

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

You don't need to recall 100,000 cars because you need to fix something. That can be done with a download of software.

I believe mobile technology has a much broader role to play. It could solve some of the biggest problems on earth.

I said we're going to leave phones, and so we did. We sold it to Sony.

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

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.

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.

We need to understand what innovation will be built on top of our networks.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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