Member Article

Do you need to adapt for 4G?

The past 12 months has seen technological advancements that are not only beneficial to consumers for entertainment and day to day living, but for businesses too. Jason Yeomans managind director of PMGC Technology Group looks forward at which advances will bring in the biggest change, and what that means for business.

From our perspective the top business opportunities coming up in 2013 has to be 4G. Regardless of how fast technology develops, any solution or service is only as good as its weakest link which, unfortunately in the UK, is still connectivity. That is both from a fixed line perspective as well as mobile, albeit mobile is developing faster due to the relative ease of scaling the networks.

As connectivity improves, then companies and individuals are already placed and ready to take advantage; smartphones and tablets really begin to add value when companies are able to move infrastructure into the cloud, deploying lighter and faster devices running more integrated systems (applications) creating real mobile working and quite literally changing the way companies do business on a fundamental level. Upside? Greater productivity and efficiency and lower costs.

The increase in tablet and Smartphone sales and the relative decrease in laptop and PC sales presents another challenge; Laptops and PC’s are typically capital expenditure, yet Smartphones are expected to be provided FOC to customers, Tablets fit somewhere in the middle. Reality is, as mobile costs are driven down and hardware prices rise, this becomes unviable (providing devices FOC). Asset finance companies have to now look at new ways to supplement their income as laptop and pc sales drop – I believe this gap can be filled by funding and supporting Smartphone and Tablet purchases – that would provide a real catalyst to the market and would increase the adoption of new ways of working.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by PMGC Technology Group .