66% organisations ready to switch to 5G networks by 2020, says Gartner

According to a new survey by Gartner, Inc, a majority, that is, 66 per cent of organisations have plans to use 5G by 2020. These expect 5G networks to be mainly used for Internet of Things (IoT) communications and video. Sylvain Fabre, senior research director at Gartner, says that in terms of 5G adoption, end-user organisations have clear demands and expectations for 5G use cases but an issue they face is the lack of readiness of communications service providers (CSPs). "Their 5G networks are not available or capable enough for the needs of organisations," says Fabre. On the basis of the survey findings, Gartner predicts that by 2022, half of the CSPs that have completed commercial 5G deployments will fail to monetise their back-end technology infrastructure investments, due to systems not fully meeting 5G use case requirements. "Most CSPs will only achieve a complete end-to-end 5G infrastructure on their public networks during the 2025-to-2030 time frame — as they focus on 5G radio first, then core slicing and edge computing," says. Fabre.

Looking ahead

LinkedIn, the world's largest professional network, has come up with a forecast report titled Big Ideas for 2019: What India can expect in the year ahead. The report makes 30 predictions on trends which are likely to define 2019 across business practices and even individual consumer behaviour. These could be in the areas of technology, geo-politics, environment, digitisation, etc. Among the predictions is that we are finally going to spend more time online than watching TV as it says that around the world it will happen. Another interesting change that we might witness is that the impact of other people questioning their screen addiction will be felt in all walks of life, it is predicted. Advanced camera technologies and machine learning are at a scale where user generated content won't just compete but even surpass professionally generated content, says LinkedIn.