mr. vestberg, first of all, welcome to las vegas. >> guest: thank you. >> host: and if you would, tell us about the ericsson company. >> guest: the ericsson company was found in 1876, and we have since then been the world leader in telecommunication equipment, first in fixed, now in mobile. today 40% of all mobile networks in the world are ericsson mobile networks supporting operators. we have roughly 100,000 employees worldwide, we are based in 180 countries. so we are a company that are doing research and development, getting out products in order to enable the mobile broadband and mobility networks all around the world. we spend roughly $4.5 billion u.s. a year for research and development. >> host: where are you based, and how large in the u.s.? >> guest: we're base inside sweden, it's a swedish company since its inception, however, u.s. is by far our largest market both on volume wise, but also one of the largest -- [inaudible] we have some 15-16,000 -- [inaudible] in the north american market today. >> host: now, when mobile phones in the u.s. started to become ubiquitous, the erics