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+Title: What would it cost to store all 2018 phone calls in Norway?
+Tags: english, personvern, surveillance
+Date: 2019-11-25 20:15
+
+<p>Four years ago, I did a back of the envelope calculation on
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_would_it_cost_to_store_all_phone_calls_in_Norway_.html">how
+much it would cost to store audio recordings of all the phone calls in
+Norway</a>, and came up with NOK 2.1 million / EUR 250 000 for the
+year 2013.  It is time to repeat the calculation using updated
+numbers.  The calculation is based on how much data storage is needed
+for each minute of audio, how many minutes all the calls in Norway
+sums up to, multiplied by the cost of data storage.</p>
+
+<p>The number of phone call minutes for 2018 was fetched from
+<a href="https://ekomstatistikken.nkom.no/">the NKOM statistics
+site</a>, and for 2018, land line calls are listed as 434 238 000
+minutes, while mobile phone calls are listed with 7 542 006 000
+minutes.  The total number of minues is thus 7 976 244 000.  For
+simplicity, I decided to ignore any advantages in audio compression te
+last four years, and continue to assume 60 Kbytes/min as the last
+time.</p>
+
+<p>Storage prices still varies a lot, but as last time, I decide to
+take a reasonable big and cheap hard drive, and double its price to
+include the surrounding costs into account.  A 10 TB disk cost less
+than 4500 NOK / 450 EUR these days, and doubling it give 9000 NOK per
+10 TB.</p>
+
+<p>So, with the parameters in place, lets update the old table
+estimating cost for calls in a given year:</p>
+
+<table border="1">
+<tr><th>Year</th><th>Call minutes</th><th>Size</th><th>Price in NOK / EUR</th></tr>
+<tr><td>2005</td><td align="right">24 000 000 000</td><td align="right">1.3 PiB</td><td align="right">1 170 000 / 117 000</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>2012</td><td align="right">18 000 000 000</td><td align="right">1.0 PiB</td><td align="right">900 000 / 90 000</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>2013</td><td align="right">17 000 000 000</td><td align="right">950 TiB</td><td align="right">855 000 / 85 500</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>2018</td><td align="right">7 976 244 000</td><td align="right">445 TiB</td><td align="right">401 100 / 40 110</td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>Both the cost of storage and the number of phone call minutes have
+dropped since the last time, bringing the cost down to a level where I
+guess even small organizations can afford to store the audio recording
+from every phone call taken in a year in Norway.  Of course, this is
+just the cost of buying the storage equipment.  Maintenance, need to
+be included as well, but the volume of a single year is about a single
+rack of hard drives, so it is not much more than I could fit in my own
+home.  Wonder how much the electricity bill would raise if I had that
+kind of storage?  I doubt it would be more than a few tens of thousand
+NOK per year.</p>