Africa's demand for Internet links to the rest of the world will grow by an average of 51 percent every year until 2019, ahead of all other regions, according to a forecast by research company Telegeography.
Satellite-based data centers with room for petabytes of data may start orbiting Earth as early as 2019. But when it comes to keeping secrets safe from the long arm of the law, the black void may not be far enough.
Gartner says enterprise software spending is expected to increase 8.3% in 2019. And communications services such as MPLS and other WAN services will hit $1.4 trillion in 2018.
The international body crafting the 5G standard has approved an accelerated roadmap that could see large-scale trials and deployments in 2019 instead of 2020.
A 100 Megabit per second residential Internet service will be offered after 2019, a satellite Internet service provider says. And it will work almost anywhere.
Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) — a 50-50 joint venture between Vodafone and Hutchison Telecommunications Australia (HTA) — says that the uncertain environment it faced last year meant it had focused on maintaining rather than growing its customer base in 2019.
AI, augmented analytics, quantum computing, and blockchain are among technologies that soon could dominate the IT landscape, according to Gartner’s annual Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends.
Pundits say spectrum demand will overrun supply by 2018 or 2019. Grabbing someone else’s frequencies would be one solution. That could make LTE over Wi-Fi spectrum all the more important.