Hans Vestberg

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.

If I am in Sweden, I try to get home to be with my children. I can do work after that from home.

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

For us to stay competitive, we're transforming our services business to be reliable and flexible.

For us, it is very important all the time that our core business is really good but that we don't stop moving.

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

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

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

Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.

Men can't do much to change; we have to wear suits, although I never wear a tie, apart from in Asia sometimes. So I decided to grow my hair.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I was taking a break from university so I could play handball full-time for a year.