Title: What would it cost to store all phone calls in Norway?
Tags: english, personvern, surveillance
-Date: 2015-05-01 18:40
+Date: 2015-05-01 18:50
<p>Many years ago, a friend of mine calculated how much it would cost
to store the sound of all phone calls in Norway, and came up with the
and the cost of data storage.</p>
<p>The 2005 numbers are from
-<ahref="http://www.digi.no/analyser/2005/10/04/vi-prater-stadig-mindre-i-roret">digi.no</a>,
+<a href="http://www.digi.no/analyser/2005/10/04/vi-prater-stadig-mindre-i-roret">digi.no</a>,
the 2012 numbers are from
-<ahref="http://www.nkom.no/aktuelt/nyheter/fortsatt-vekst-i-det-norske-ekommarkedet">a
+<a href="http://www.nkom.no/aktuelt/nyheter/fortsatt-vekst-i-det-norske-ekommarkedet">a
NKOM report</a>, and I got the 2013 numbers after asking NKOM via
email.</p>
<p>The amount of data storage per minute sound depend on the wanted
quality, and for phone calls it is generally believed that 8 Kbit/s is
enough. Se for example a
-<ahref="http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/voice/voice-quality/7934-bwidth-consume.html#topic1">summary
+<a href="http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/voice/voice-quality/7934-bwidth-consume.html#topic1">summary
from Cisco</a> for some alternatives. 8 Kbit/s is 60 Kbytes/min, and
this can be multiplied with the number of call minutes to get the
storage requirements.</p>
estimated cost, which is within the budget constraint of most medium
and large organisations:</p>
-<table>
-<tr><th>Year</th><th>Minutes of calls</th><th>Size</th><th>Price in NOK</th></tr>
-<tr><td>2005</td><td>24 000 000 000</td><td>1.3 PiB</td><td>3 mill</td></tr>
-<tr><td>2012</td><td>18 000 000 000</td><td>1.0 PiB</td><td>2.2 mill</td></tr>
-<tr><td>2013</td><td>17 000 000 000</td><td>950 TiB</td><td>2.1 mill</td></tr>
+<table border="1">
+<tr><th>Year</th><th>Call minutes</th><th>Size</th><th>Price in NOK</th></tr>
+<tr><td>2005</td><td align="right">24 000 000 000</td><td align="right">1.3 PiB</td><td align="right">3 mill</td></tr>
+<tr><td>2012</td><td align="right">18 000 000 000</td><td align="right">1.0 PiB</td><td align="right">2.2 mill</td></tr>
+<tr><td>2013</td><td align="right">17 000 000 000</td><td align="right">950 TiB</td><td align="right">2.1 mill</td></tr>
</table>
<p>This is the cost of buying the storage. Maintenance need to be