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Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg Talks About Melding 5G and the Cloud

He has high hopes for the company’s partnerships with Apple, Disney, and Amazon.

Vestberg, who is Swedish, was CEO of Stockholm-based telecommunications giant Ericsson from 2007 to 2009. He took the top job at Verizon in 2018 after serving as chief technology officer, and was president of the Swedish Olympic Committee from 2016 to 2018.

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By Carol A Massar and Jason Kelly

February 7, 2020 at 11:00 AM UTC

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This article is part of the February 10, 2020 issue of businessweek.

Verizon Communications Inc.’s chief executive officer Hans Vestberg talks about partnerships with Disney, Apple, and Amazon, as well as the wonders of “edge computing” (think low latency—that is, quick response times) coming to the consumer marketplace.

Apple Music, definitely. Disney+ is still in its infancy, but we are happy with it.