Understanding the demand growth for digital connectivity

Tommy van der Vorst and Reg Brennenraedts

22nd ITS Biennial Conference, Seoul 2018. Beyond the boundaries: Challenges for business, policy and society from International Telecommunications Society (ITS)

Abstract: While connectivity supply is growing exponentially, likely as a result of developments in the semiconductor industry, research on connectivity has mostly focused on the demand side. Such approach is however unable to account for the introduction of unforeseen ser-vices, which is also supply-driven. In this study we seek to validate the existence of a 'residual' of unexplained growth and quantify it as the difference between supply of con-nectivity and demand from existing service category. The hypothesis is confirmed: an increasing fraction of internet traffic volume expected at high levels of aggregation (i.e. an internet exchange) is unexplained by existing service category growth.

Keywords: digital connectivity; bandwidth; internet traffic; exponential growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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