Ericsson’s high-profile industry forecast of 50 billion mobile connections by 2020 has created headlines in the last year, but operator Sprint Nextel believes this could be just the starting point. In a new feature video, Sprint Nextel’s Wayne Ward, VP of the US carrier’s Emerging Solutions business unit, comments:  “You know you see statistics today of 50 billion, 100 billion, I've seen statistics that say a trillion. So I think it’s a matter of endless possibilities… if I had to guess I'd say 50 billion is conservative.”