Telefónica, Telia, Globe indulge in some 5G back-slapping

There are all manner of metrics that telcos cite when crowing about their 5G milestones, and these last few days have seen some top-notch braggadocio.
Telefónica Germany let everyone know this week that its mobile network carried 1 billion Gigabytes – or 1 Exabyte – of data during the first six months of 2021, representing a doubling of data usage in just two years. Go back just five-and-a-half years, and O2 Germany’s network carried 178 million Gigabytes in the whole of