Operators face data cost-revenue crunch in 2017 – report

Veteran telecoms industry analyst Tom Nolle reckons this is the year the cost of delivering data becomes greater than the revenues derived from doing so, according to a Light Reading report.
This bleak assessment is the result of a survey of 47 operators around the world, in which the vast majority saw their revenues-per-bit falling below their cost-per-bit at some point in 2017.
The central problem is that, while data consumption continues to increase exponentially, thanks largely to video, the