Green light for Telcos.
How the Telecommunications industry can help other
industries reduce carbon emissions and therefore cost.
Executive summary Yet the growth of telepresence solutions has fallen
Since the late 1800s the Telecommunications far short of expectations. We believe that due to a
industry has played a major role in shaping how we combination of factors, conditions are now right for
live, and today it is the backbone of the global this to change. The opportunity for Telcos here is as
economy, with total revenues in excess of much about enabling best practise performance
$1.9 trillion (USD). However, energy consumption management through enhanced management
has grown in line with demand and this represents information as it is about driving adoption by
a major environmental challenge. Public awareness further enhancing existing collaborative working
of the impact of big business on the environment is solutions.
increasing and both governments and companies
are responding. As such, the strategic imperative The introduction of 2nd generation smart meters
for Telcos is to leverage solutions to reduce also represents a significant opportunity to drive
emissions and costs developed in their own industry further emission reductions and new revenue
to capitalise on the revenue opportunities streams derived from connecting these devices to
associated with deploying these solutions in other the smart grid. However, Telcos should also
industries. This is more about adapting existing capitalise on the customer insights that this energy
solutions to deliver sustainable changes in usage data will bring.
behaviour, and less about developing new ones.
Global IP traffic is forecast to grow fivefold
While current satellite navigation solutions are likely between 2008 and 2013.
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Yet while the financial
to achieve significant improvements in traffic benefits of this traffic to operators are clear, this
efficiency, there is a need to further enhance these level of growth is undesirable from an emissions
solutions to unlock additional reductions in CO
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perspective. Telcos can help other industries reduce
emissions. However, this technology could also be both emissions and costs by proactively supporting
adopted to encourage migration away from cars greater enforcement of anti-piracy legislation, by
towards public transport. adopting new pricing structures and by enhancing
existing throttling policies to discourage traffic with
It is widely acknowledged that teleworking can negative economic value.
substitute commuting and business travel, reducing
the negative environmental impacts and associated
costs.
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Methodology
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