GEC NEWS WIREBell Labs Consulting Mobility Report models how future human behavior will drive mobile demand by 2020 and how mobile operators should respond. As per the report, Audio and video streaming traffic will account for four-fifths of increased 2020 traffic, Internet of Things connected devices to potentially top 46 billion by 2020 and disrupt the way networks are managed, 81 percent of 2020 global demand will be met by Wi-Fi and mobile technologies, resulting in a 19-percent gap in unmet demand, Operators must accelerate their path to 5G and cloud technologies in order to meet all 2020 consumption demands.
Bell Labs Consulting models show that by 2020, 67 percent of the worldwide consumption demand forecast can be met by Wi-Fi. Another 14 percent can be addressed by the current adoption rate of 3G, LTE, small cells and the emergence of new technologies such as 5G. Between now and 2020, that leaves 19 percent of demand unable to be satisfied based on current and projected economics.
Marcus Weldon, President of Nokia Bell Labs and CTO, said: “The next evolution of humankind will involve ‘life automation’, and the creation of a world in which billions of interconnected things including smart objects, cameras, robots, sensors and processes exchange real time video and data streams – not only with people, but with cloud-based systems that extract knowledge from this data and perform tasks to make our work and home lives more convenient and our environments more intelligent.”
