With so much recent focus on 5G, it is easy to overlook the importance to mobile operators of continuing to drive up usage over their LTE networks.

The Ovum analysts’ expectations from the world’s largest mobile conference

It is also the only vendor in Australia to offer full suite of enterprise SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS cloud services.

It's still very early days for Android Instant Apps, with no solid information existing at present as to when a wider release may happen.

5G service will have 25 million subscriptions globally, with the U.S, China, Japan and South Korea dominating the market.

Digital skills and "new collar jobs" are vital to economic development, growth, and consumption.

Artificial Intelligence to the rescue! AI is widely seen by scientists, vendors and even enterprise IT professionals as the next step in cyber defense

Vendors are making strides in wearables outside of fitness trackers and smart watches.

"All the Internet of Things in the world will not stop a hurricane, flood, or people just plain breaking things."

"We’re beginning to see strong growth from SaaS companies plus emerging subscriptions-based business within health, education and financial services."

“The uneven maturity of digital transformation by industry and country has created a complex landscape."

“Under the covers, machine learning is already becoming ubiquitous as it is embedded in many services that consumers take for granted."

In the run-up to Christmas season, several vendors in the smart home market took advantage of Black Friday and Cyber Monday’s shopping frenzy.

CIOs are concerned about analytical talent both among technical staff and within business units.

“To improve cloud adoption, cloud service providers must simplify how they articulate the benefits of their cloud services to Singapore businesses."

Operators will expect guidance from vendors and professional services providers.

While the smart home is becoming more and more present and understood, OEMs and service providers still have a long way to go before it's ubiquitous.

Research suggests that there are significant educational benefits to some old-fashioned analogue skill sets that can be critical to the way we think.

The distance between thinking about that first step and actually taking it is a chasm that many customers view as extremely challenging.

"The outlook for tech vendors remains positive even if the future direction of U.S policy is unclear."

The “law of unintended consequences” may yet present users with some unexpected outcomes, especially where human-centric data is concerned.

"Investment into digital technologies continues to grow as government CIOs seek new ways of creating value."

One of the key concepts is moving from viewing servers as “pets” (cherished and long-lived) to viewing them instead as “cattle”, immutable objects.

Is there a genuine need for speeds of 1Gbps or more? Equipment vendors want to think so, but service providers Ovum has spoken to are less certain.