Cellular network management based on automatic social-data acquisition

A method for predicting an increase in amount of traffic in a particular cell of a telecommunication network, wherein said telecommunication network comprises a plurality of access nodes, wherein each of said access nodes is arranged to serve a cell in said telecommunication network, wherein each cell covers a predefined coverage area, said method comprising the steps of receiving event information from at least one source which is external to said telecommunication network, wherein said event information comprises geographic data and temporal data of events that are to take place, associating said events with at least one particular access node of said plurality of access nodes based on said geographic data of each of said events and based on said predefined coverage areas of said cells and predicting an increase in amount of traffic in a cell of said telecommunication network based on said associated events with at least one particular access node and their corresponding temporal data.