Title: What would it cost to store all phone calls in Norway?
Tags: english, personvern, surveillance
-Date: 2015-05-01 18:50
+Date: 2015-05-01 19:30
<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
the 2012 numbers are from
<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>
+email. I was told the numbers for 2014 will be presented May 20th,
+and decided not to wait for those, as I doubt they will be very
+different from the numbers from 2013.</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
+enough. See for example a
<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>
+on voice quality 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>
<p>Storage prices varies a lot, depending on speed, backup strategies,
availability requirements etc. But a simple way to calculate can be