Managing Growth and Profits in the Yottabyte Era (Replacement)

It is clearly a very exciting time in the mobile industry. The growth has been spectacular; its resilience a model for other industries, and its promise is something that keeps entrepreneurs on their toes. Within the next few months, for some of the leading operators like NTT DoCoMo and KDDI, the data revenues will overtake voice revenues for the first time. Gradually, rest of the world will follow suit. However, this growth comes at a price that of managing growth of data consumption from billions of devices and trillions of sensors around us. To be able to stay ahead of the demand, significant planning needs to go in to deal with the bits and bytes that are on the verge of exploding. New technical and business solutions will be needed to manage the growth and profit from the services.