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Briefing: Green ICT
Part 2: Operators’ power efficiency strategies
Service providers have set themselves ambitious targets to reduce their energy consumption by a fifth by 2020. This despite the expected traffic they will carry being thirty times today’s volumes. Given the cost of electricity and operators’ requirements, such targets are not surprising: KPN, with its 12,000 sites in The Netherlands, consumes 1% of the country’s electricity.
“We also have to invest in capital expenditure for a big swap of equipment – in mobile and DSLAMs"
Philippe Tuzzolino, France Telecom-Orange
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