"This is traditionally a slower period for high-speed data growth," Mr. Noski said.
"These companies have been seeing tremendous data growth, and they need help dealing with it," he said.
"One caveat there is that data growth doesn't always come without cannibalizing voice minutes," Mr. Hand said.
"We see plenty of opportunities for data growth, driven by new enhanced devices and innovative content.
Facebook has signed up almost half the countries in Africa – a combined population of 635 million – to its free internet service in a controversial move to corner the market in one of the world's biggest mobile data growth regions.
Morgan Stanley cut its target price from 190p to 170p, saying: The reduction is due to lower near-term profitability at C&W international and lower longer-term value at C&W worldwide as data growth is slower.
The fastest growth in device adoption over the next five years will be for tablets, Cisco says – predicting an average 46% growth year on year, and data growth more than doubling, by 113% annually.
But the head of the Federal Communications Commission seemed more interested in finding technological solutions to deal with the problem of surging wireless data growth.
More important, a wireline "Marshall Plan" would do absolutely nothing to address our most pressing broadband need — freeing more spectrum to handle wireless data growth.
Chief executive Vittorio Colao said Vodafone had made "strong progress" on mobile data growth and cash generation: The £1 billion cost reduction programme is expected to be delivered a year ahead of plan and we have extended this to a further £1 billion of cost savings by 2012 Elsewhere...the City will soon have another female chief executive.
Managing Explosive Data Growth.
