#MWC14 Ericsson CTO Ulf Ewaldsson: Spectrum, Small Cell, 5G
Description
Ulf Ewaldsson, Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of Ericsson speaks with RCR Wireless News reporter Limor Schafman in an extended conversation at Mobile World Congress 2014. Topics discussed include:
* Record number of visitors to Ericsson's booth on Day 1 - 4,000!
* Virtualization & M2M - Ericsson's vision of a "networked society" with cloud computing
* Spectrum - Management both globally and in North America, including LTE carrier aggregation; predictions
* Ericsson's Radio Dot System
* Small cell's role in Ericsson's telecom plans
* Video optimization and enriching the customer experience
* Acquiring Microsoft's Mediaroom and their plans for it
* Net neutrality and the role of the Comcast/Netflix deal on content creators and those that own the pipelines
* 5G - How it's in "full innovation" mode, the 5Gppp collaboration in Europe, and the importance of standardization, celebrating collaboration, and the benefits of an open innovation platform