The love for the brand is immense. It gets a lot of affection from millions and millions of people.
When you do deals with France involved, you want to make sure that the government endorses your deal, understands the strategic rationale.
I want to be very clear: if we are to sell this business, we are not a forced seller.
Strong automotive and enterprise sales and the positive impact of our expanded license agreement with Microsoft more than offset the loss of revenue from the former devices and services business.
Telco cloud and virtualization remain a clear priority for us, and we became the first vendor to supply a commercial telco cloud solution compliant with ETSI Architecture for end-to-end voice-over-LTE services.
We've always believed in fair trade.
5G is not going to replace 4G. 4G and 4.5G are going to coexist with 5G.
If you start with a compromise, you live with a compromise for a long time.
We believe that our cost effectiveness is one of our most powerful competitive advantages in Networks, and we will not lose sight of that in the future.
We can license our intellectual property to new customers and expand agreements with existing ones over time and more.
China can be a difficult market for IP in general and IP compliance.
We have to take a long view on net neutrality.
You cannot prevent collisions if the data that can prevent them is still making its way through the network.
We are rapidly approaching a world where everybody and everything will be connected and where all that connectivity will be bound together, acting with intelligence in a way that simplifies and improves people's lives.
The coming changes in technology will be as profound as the creation of the Internet.
We see some positive signs coming from our North American customers. The desire to move fast to 5G is certainly there.
I didn't dream that I would become the CEO of the company when I joined as a systems marketing engineer back in 1995. Sometimes, I don't really reconcile to it; it's a bit of an odd sensation which is under the surface.
The world does not wait for you.
You want to be inclusive, but you can't be to the extent of having so many people involved that it slows you down.
We are focusing on four vertical markets - utilities, public sector, large enterprises, and transportation. And, we are building a software business as well that includes analytics, security, IOT platforms, and AI.
