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Börje Ekholm
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President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Ericsson
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India में 5G और Digital Transformation पर Ericsson CEO Borje Ekholm ने जानिए क्या कहा?

📅 Feb 15, 2025 ET Now Swadesh 8 MIN 704 VIEWS 14 SEGMENTS · 2 SPEAKERS
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  1. 0:24Can you talk about the presence, the importance of India in the overall scheme of things — where does India really fit in?
  2. 1:38And what about the 5G technology adaptation in India?
  3. 2:49So Börje, how do you foresee the 5G technology contributing to India's growth?
  4. 3:56And are there any use cases within India which others perhaps can take inspiration from?
  5. 4:50How do you see yourself partnering with the developer ecosystem, and how can essentially the 5G service providers really benefit from it?
  6. 6:34So as the entire telecom network has evolved — it started with voice, moved to data, started with pictures, now has moved to videos — how do you see the entire network or the mobile network really evolving in the future?
Interviewer 0:06 ↗
Since we're talking technology, I just thought the best way to really talk to the REN Global Head is to really connect technology.
Wonderful. Now, Ericsson has been in India for about 120 years. Can you talk about the presence, the importance of India in the overall scheme of things — where does India really fit in?
Börje Ekholm 0:41 ↗
Thank you for having me first of all. Yes, India is one of our most important markets. We've been in India since, as you noted, 120 years. I think we built the first switch in 1903. But since then, of course, we have evolved. We've been part of 2G through 5G. And today, India is one of our most important countries with the largest workforce. So we have more than 20,000 colleagues in India. Here we're of course doing service delivery, but I would also say it's a key hub for our research in AI, 6G, as well as network APIs. So for us, it's really a very important presence. And when you now see a very fast 5G rollout, of course that's something that we have been a key partner for the Indian operators in achieving. So we're very excited about our presence.
Interviewer 1:38 ↗
So Börje, how has India's strategic investment in digital infrastructure and efficient spectrum allocation really positioned you on the digital forefront? And what about the 5G technology adaptation in India?
Börje Ekholm 1:56 ↗
That's a great question. You know, to participate in the future and to digitalize a country, it's all about the digital stack, and building out that whole stack is critical. The first and very important step here is of course the connectivity layer, and there India has done a very, very strong job. So if we look today, it's built out 5G coverage for I think 80% population coverage, 270 million subscribers of 5G already. So I think India is by far one of the fastest buildouts of 5G we have seen in the world. And today it's actually a very strong network — probably one of the absolutely highest consumption of data in any network around the world will be found in India.
Interviewer 2:49 ↗
So Börje, how do you foresee the 5G technology contributing to India's growth? Because with 5G comes speed, with speed comes productivity and connectivity, and when productivity and connectivity come together, that always will lead to economic growth.
Börje Ekholm 3:07 ↗
I think it already has, actually. So if you look at the strategies around Digital India, it's all built on the connectivity. You have, of course, 4G networks played a role, but now it's migrating over to 5G. And what I'm really excited about is to see the way India has been able to digitalize the whole country. But what I'm also excited to see is what's going to happen in the future, because we'll add new use cases, entrepreneurs, innovators — call it a startup ecosystem in India will actually have a chance here to develop new types of solutions, new products on top of the networks. And I think that's going to pivot India towards a very exciting future.

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Ekholm, B. (2025, February 15). India में 5G और Digital Transformation पर Ericsson CEO Borje Ekholm ने जानिए क्या कहा? [Interview transcript]. ET Now Swadesh. CEOInterviews.AI. https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/1156423/

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Börje Ekholm. "India में 5G और Digital Transformation पर Ericsson CEO Borje Ekholm ने जानिए क्या कहा?." ET Now Swadesh, 15 Feb. 2025. Transcript, CEOInterviews.AI, https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/1156423/.

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  author       = {Börje Ekholm},
  title        = {India में 5G और Digital Transformation पर Ericsson CEO Borje Ekholm ने जानिए क्या कहा?},
  howpublished = {Interview transcript, ET Now Swadesh. CEOInterviews.AI},
  year         = {2025},
  month        = {feb},
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  note         = {Speaker-attributed transcript with timestamps}
}