Ericsson is predicting that traffic in fixed as well as mobile networks to grow tenfold by 2012, said company CEO Carl-Henric Svanberg, speaking at Ericsson’s Capital Markets Day conference in Stockholm.
“Our way of communicating is changing rapidly with the rollout of mobile and fixed high-speed broadband”, said Svanberg. “As a result, we expect traffic in fixed as well as mobile networks to grow tenfold by 2012. With high-speed broadband, we will see multimedia to start a new era in telecom.”
Some other observations from Svanberg:
- GDP growth increases 0.6% for every 10% of mobile penetration.
- The new generation of mobile base station will be 80% more power efficient that models from a few years ago.
- There will be 4.5 billion mobile users in 2012.
- Time-to-market is key for capturing the new opportunities.
- New operator business models will emerge to accommodate the new opportunities.
The event featured speakers from Telstra, Tandberg TV, and T-Mobile.
