We’ve all heard that the coming 5G networks promise low latency – as low as 1 ms – and very fast speeds up to and possibly over 1Gbps, as well as the increased capacity to carry many more simultaneous users.

Overall a massive net improvement in performance, but how can this be used?

imei is attending Mobile World Congress – MWC19 – in Barcelona to get the latest developments in mobile technologies and ecosystems directly from the world’s biggest mobile conference, where the talk of the conference is all about 5G.

In a very short space of time mobile has evolved from being another device for IT to support, to a new way of doing business. One that allows employees to do the same work they can do at their desk, from any location at any time. In the age of flexibility, employees are no longer shackled to their desks, but tethered to their mobile devices.

In the world of enterprise mobility, there are acronyms aplenty. As we mentioned in an earlier post on the evolving needs of enterprise mobility, MDM, EMM, and MTM are but the tip of the iceberg. What we didn’t talk about in that story is the growing trend to UEM.

In many organisations, the IT department is tasked with enterprise mobility management even though IT skills are not specifically required to manage a great many mobility tasks. Everything from creating a BYOD policy, to ordering and provisioning devices, to configuring smartphones, replacing lost or stolen devices, and managing data expenses is hardly the remit of computer science professionals.