The current Internet model could break as announced Telefónica
| Date: August 30, 2010 | Source: Europa Press |
| Category: REFLECTIONS | |
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Loading ... The CEO of Telefonica, Julio Linares, has warned of the risk posed by the "unstoppable" growth of data traffic and the "decoupling" between network costs and revenues of the operators that continue as at present, can "break the current model" prevailing in the telecommunications industry.
"The opportunities come with challenges that must be addressed, and this requires a collective response to the imbalance prevailing in the sector," said Linares for their participation in the XXIV meeting of telecommunications at the University Menéndez Pelayo of Santander (UIMP).
The manager said that as a result of data growth, costs of the operators are increasing and "stress" investments made by companies, and indicated that there is an "imbalance" in the current Internet model and a "decoupling" between the data growth and income.
For this reason, the CEO of Telefónica said that to continue and could lead to a breakdown of current model, so it stressed the need to act "urgently" and "collectively" to avoid this danger.
In this sense, Linares said that last year there were already 1,000 million homes, 4,600 million and 1,400 million connected machines and estimated that by 2020 those numbers to rise to 1,200 million homes, 6,000 million and 40,000 million of connectivity, which is 50,000 million devices, 90% via mobile communications.
"The first wave of growth was the household, which seems to have reached saturation, the second came from the hand of individuals and mobile phones becoming a third wave, the devices and machines, with a dimension much greater than the former. "
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