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Nortel CTO John Roese was a speaker at this week’s GigaOM Mobilize conference in San Francisco.  John talked on-stage with GigaOM founder Om Malik.

You can see the entire Q&A on the GigaOM site here.

The Q&A started on the topic of Hyperconnectivity, then quickly moved to 4G and technologies like LTE.

John had a few interesting comments.  When asked what the “killer app” would be for 4G, John responded: “The killer application in the 4G world is the fact that now you will be able to take every application that you’ve had in the wired world and deploy that in a mobile context. And then everything across the communication ecosystem will just be an Internet app.”

Another intersting comment came in response to Om’s question on if Nortel was backing away from LTE: “We’ve been very clear from day one that 4G world cannot work if the infrastructure is the same as the 3G network. There’s too many competitors trying to do too much in a vertically integrated fashion. As we are looking at 4G, it is very much about saying ‘play your position.’ We do not believe that the current industry structure can work as we go into the 4G ecosystem. I think people took that as we’re backing away from it, but we mean it quite literally. We need to look to the Internet industry structure and the cellular industry structure to see what will work.”

These are just two of the questions from the interview.  You can see the entire Q&A on the GigaOM site here.