Hans Vestberg
Analyst · Edward Snyder from Charter Equity. Please go ahead
Yes. Starting with the China comment together in 5G, so when I talked about the utilization in China, it’s based on 4G, so we are clear on that. So that was related to 4G and IoT. Still I said in the beginning that many markets are now looking into 5G and China would be one of them. But when I talk about that the 21st century’s infrastructure would be mobility broadband and cloud. That is 4G-based in China, but 5G will come later on, so just to clarify that. If we then talk about the pattern and profile we could see, yes, I think Jan has talked about that several times that we have a pattern on coverage first and then depending a little bit how much capacity was in that coverage, you get to phase a little bit slower and then you cancel capacity. That’s how we work in all technologies. However, we don’t say that this is the case in China right now. We say it’s one quarter of a slowdown and it might not be – the underlying and the coverage is still there. So, I would say, you need more coverage in China. So, the coverage phase is not over in China, that’s what I am saying. But the pattern, as you described, that’s how it work between technologies. Then your next question is how will – how do you correlate the 2G, 3G and 4G? It’s a little bit early to say. We have standardization both this working on standardizing 5G to as much extent we would like of course, we would like to see that we can reuse as much as possible of the installed base when it comes to basebands, etcetera, when you move to 5G. However, the radio units have to be changed, because it’s going to be different frequencies. But we will only know that when we have decided what frequency is going to be and how it will define, but of course, one way to see it is that this could be upgradable from where we are, but it’s too early to say. We are now discreetly running 5G tests where you can – we can show 5 gigabits per second right now in our 5G test plants here in Kista, which enormous, but it can also give a latency it is 10 to 20 times lower than 4G. So, there is many new carrier guys on the network. And that’s why I am talking about many industries will be very interested, but we – we are trying to see that this is going to be as much reuse of the previous infrastructure, because that’s important of our customers and they don’t need to reinstall or reinvest again, but it depends a little bit how the standardization is going to be done. We will push for that.