A method and system in a wireless communications system enables a network operator to accommodate subscriber demands by matching resources to current, congested traffic levels and future, predicted traffic levels. The accommodation may be effectuated at the cell level, and the applicable resources include transceivers (TRXs). A given base station in a network records variables on preferably at least three occasions. The variables include time of measurement, mean traffic level (TL), busy hour TL, and current number of TRXs. These four variables may then be used in a non-linear optimization formula applied to a growth equation. Three vital coefficients are produced for the equation. Future traffic levels, as well as a maximum expected subscriber population, for the given cell can be estimated from the growth equation with the vital coefficients. A possible busy hour TL and the predicted future TLs may be used to determine an optimized number of TRXs.