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TMT predictions 2010

What's going to happen in the Technology, media & telecommunications (TMT) sector in 2010? These reports offer our predictions of the trends and key issues facing the sector over the coming year. They have drawn on internal and external inputs from conversations with member firm clients, contributions from Deloitte member firms’ 7,000 partners and managers specialising in TMT, and discussions with industry analysts, as well as interviews with leading executives from around the world.

Technology predictions
Some important topics for the Technology sector for 2010 are:

  • IT procurement stands on its head
  • From grey to green: technology reinvents cement
  • Smaller than a netbook, bigger than a smartphone: net tablets arrive
  • Moore's Law is alive and well in 2010
  • Cloud computing: more than hype, but less than hyper
  • Thinking thin is in again: virtual desktop infrastructures challenge the PC
  • CleanTech makes a comeback. But solar stays in the shadows

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Media predictions
Some important topics for the Media sector for 2010 are:

  • Linear's got legs: the television and radio schedule stays supreme
  • Publishing fights back: pay walls and micropayments
  • The shift to online advertising: more selective, but the trend continues
  • eReaders fill a niche, but eBooks fly off the (virtual) shelves
  • Music as a service rises up the charts
  • TV and the Web belong together, but not necessarily on the same screen
  • Video-on-demand takes off - thanks to the vending machine
  • One step back, two steps forward for 3D TV

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Telecommunications predictions
Some important topics for the Telecommunications sector for 2010 are:

  • The smartphone becomes a search-phone
  • Mobile VoIP becomes a social network
  • Widening the bottleneck. Telecom technology helps decongest the mobile network
  • Paying for what we eat. Carriers change data pricing and make regulators happy
  • Nixing the nines
  • Contract 2.0: long-term solutions shorten and multiply
  • The line goes leaner. And greener
  • Reliability redefined and reassessed

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  • Read our press release
    Deloitte analyses top trends for the technology, media and telecoms industries for 2010