Borje Ekholm Quotes

5G is not going to replace 4G. 4G and 4.5G are going to coexist with 5G.

Older generations of Wi-Fi weren't quite robust enough to deliver video in the home without breaking up and losing packets and so forth. 5G Wi-Fi gives you extended reach, extended data rates, and more robust coverage.

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.

There's nothing special about wireless networks except that wireless capacity is sometimes less than what you can get, for example, from optical fiber.

Network operators need reasonable leeway to manage their networks.

I'm a realist about how the networks work.

We launched DirecTV Now. Our 5G evolution plans and improved spectrum position are paving the way for the next generation of super-fast mobile and fixed networks.

In order to seize the opportunity presented by the acceleration of 5G, we plan to invest approximately €100 million in 2018 to meet near-term customer requirements for early 5G trials.

If you look at the first generation of wireless, it really lasted about 15 years before we went to the second generation. When we implemented the fourth generation, which allowed us to do all the smartphones and the videos, the time between that and going to the fifth generation is going to be four years.

Streaming is something that's going to require tons of billions of dollars of investment, building server farms close to users and 5G and everything else.

Having run Tellme before, one of the things I learned about running a big network is it's one thing to have some people not be able to get on the way they want to get on, but as long as people who are on the network are having a good experience, you're totally cool.

We need a data network that can easily carry voice, instead of what we have today, a voice network struggling to carry data.

For the user, it doesn't matter whether he is getting access on Wi-Fi, 3G or 2G networks. What matters is good connectivity, and as a technology provider, our job is to hide the complexity of the technology.

Companies that are hosting Web sites or do a lot of teleconferencing need a lot of bandwidth going both ways.

5G cell networks create a whole new wave of distributed and edge computing.

We think that 5G will likely last longer and be deeper than first thought.

The need for mission-critical, high-performance network continues to grow as companies and public sector organizations everywhere digitize their operations.

5G is no longer just a buzzword.

5G will come. We can debate when in certain parts of the world. But it's quite clear that the race is heating up in North America and Northeast Asia.

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.

In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology.

But as soon as we got that higher speed access to the home there's going to be a tremendous crunch on the backbones for a much higher speed bandwidth. People really ought to be planning for that.

I want to own a network. I want to own a network where you can turn it on with your family all day long and get positive reinforcement.

If I were to wish for two things, they would be as much bandwidth as possible and ridiculously fast browser engines.

The next Internet could be in the making somewhere in someone's lab.