If I were you I'd be careful saying 'can't', give that Vodafone are
saying that for them it can.
As regards growth in cellular traffic; just because everyone has a
phone, that doesn't mean the market is anywhere near saturated. There's
currently 3-5 times more voice traffic originating on fixed networks
than on mobile networks in most European markets. That is unlikely to be
the case in 10 years.
-Benedict
>In Europe, 3G investments can't be justified simply with a capacity
increase
>or OPEX reduction, also because in most countries (Nordic, but also
Italy),
>2G has already saturated the market and it's difficult to predict a
relevant
>increase of (data) traffic in the next few years.
Received on Tue Oct 7 15:35:07 2003