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Nokia Siemens Networks is predicting that by 2015, only 5 years from now, mobile data usage will hit 23 exabytes (24,696,061,952 gigabytes) per year. That’s a 10,000% increase from today.
Whether or not that number is even remotely accurate is irrelevant, we all know data usage is skyrocketing and doubling every few months. Nokia Siemens Networks is in the business of selling network equipment so they’ll throw you a big number so you buy a large amount of their stuff. The message they’re trying to put out in their press release is that you can’t just throw additional capacity at this problem. You have to do more.
What exactly that “more” is … I’m still trying to figure out. Any network engineers know?
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Stefan Constantinescu
Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.
