The Buzz from Barcelona: MWC16Geoff Ballinger

Founder & Organiser, Mobile Monday EdinburghSystem Architect, deltaDNA@geoffballinger, #MoMoEdi

Takeaways …

5G

• 10s of millions of IOT devices• autonomous vehicles with real time needs• human users want more and more capacity & coverage

• heterogeneous – 2.5G+3G+4G+WIFI+???• ultra low power radio tech for IOT etc. c.f. SigFox• “wireless fibre” on mmWave w/ MiMo directional antennas• demand attentive – appropriate speed & latency

• 2020 – and there will be no 6G “if we get it right” …

mHealth• “The future of health is wearables & v.v.”

• Start w/ consumer e.g. ivyhealth & Withings et al• e.g. post surgery monitoring / followups• e.g. chronic care

• Need to move beyond the “post traumatic healthcare system• Big opportunity for long term preventative care• Changes the economic model potentially?

• Apple placing Healthkit as the “trusted intermediary”

Privacy• e.g. Apple vs FBI!• The Right to Privacy – Harvard Law Review 1890• EU General Data Protection Regulation by 2018• e.g. EU cookie law. Focus on UX!

• Stephen Deadman,FB,4YFN – “Trust, Transparency, and Control”• Personal data: not commodity, identity key, value in UX• Value is in the “small data”, i.e. the individual experience.• HW identity vs individual identity – a problem• Unintended implications/associations

• Right to privacy may become difficult to exercise e.g. insurance

Crazy talk … ???“privacy will almost vanish in future - but security is important”

(Sanjiv Ahuja, ex CEO orange, tillman global holdings, 4YFN 2015)

And finally …• Microsoft buys Xamarin – perhaps the

beginning of the end for Windows as a mobile platform?

• Google partners with GSMA on Rich Communication Service (RCS) - vs iMessage, WhatsApp, FB messanger …

Thanks for listening!