Anders Lindblad is the president and CEO of Ericsson Middle East. Executive sat with him to discuss telecoms in the region. Why are your clients choosing Ericsson over Huawei? Huawei is working very hard. Overall I would say we are already in the undisputed lead in the telecom industry and that’s of course a privileged situation to be in. Of course when you are a market leader, I think, that comes with some responsibility, if you want to stay a market leader. And that means that you have to invest in research and development. You have to invest in getting the best people. [This long-term stratgey is] not for Ericsson, it’s for the society, for other businesses. Comparative advantage is all about who has more information about the consumers. You are providing and also assisting the operator at managing their data. The consumer data is the operator’s. It’s
