Predictions

TMT Predictions 2016 | Middle East

Discover the major Technology, Media & Telecommunication trends that will impact your business

Welcome to the 2016 edition of Deloitte’s predictions for the Technology, Media, and Telecommunications (TMT) sectors. In our 4th year of releasing MENA specific analysis on major market developments, we continue to supply industry insights based on deep analysis, built around meetings with industry experts and field executives, as well as our proprietary programs of research with tens of thousands of consumers worldwide.

Executive summary

Our objective with TMT Predictions is to identify critical inflection points that we believe should inform industry strategic thinking, and to explain how we think these will manifest over the next 12-18 months for companies in Technology, Media, Telecommunications (TMT), and other industries.

Explore the future in Technology:

Hybrid Cloud Computing in the Middle East
Women in IT jobs: it is about education, but also about more than just education
Trailing millennials are the pro-PC, not the post-PC, generation
Touch Commerce: the mobile online checkout gets an express lane
Graphene: research now, reap next decade
Cognitive technologies enhance enterprise software

Explore the future in Media:

Music Usage Rights in MENA Region
Virtual reality (VR): a billion dollar niche
Mobile games: leading but less lucrative
Mobile ad-blockers: saved by the app?
The award for stable box office revenues in the face of digital media goes to…
US TV: erosion, not implosion
European football scores $30 billion
eSports — Bigger and smaller than you think

Explore the future in Telecommunications:

The dawn of the Gigabit Internet age: every bit counts
Used smartphones: the $17 billion market you may never have heard of
The rise of the data exclusive
VoLTE / VoWiFi — capacity, reach, and capability
Photo sharing: trillions and rising

The future in Technology, Media & Telecommunications