Ericsson highlights approach to enable data traffic growth and reduce carbon emissions

Erisson’s latest report, ‘Breaking the energy curve’, highlights a network-level approach that enables an exponential growth of data traffic without increasing energy consumption. The approach aims to do that by reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions in mobile networks.
Ericsson estimates the annual global energy cost for running mobile networks to be about USD 25 billion. From both cost and carbon footprint perspectives, energy is one of the industry’s biggest challenges. If 5G is deployed in the same way as previous generations in order to meet increasing traffic demands, then energy consumption in mobile networks will increase dramatically, claims the company.
In the report, Ericsson highlights the savings that can be achieved by preparing the network with latest technology solutions, activating energy-saving software, building 5G with precision, and operating site infrastructure intelligently. The 12-page report also shares real customer cases, that are currently live and are positively impacting energy consumption and reducing carbon footprints.