New year, new trends?

摘要

While much of this issue has focused on the past, over these two pages we'll turn to the future. As has become an industry tradition, many well-known figures have made their predictions for what 2019 will bring, for two-way radio and the telecoms industry. Tim Cull, head of business radio at the Federation of Communication Services (FCS), expects that "2019 will see the start of a regulatory focus on data air traffic", with a focus on "accommodating new and important operational needs while not messing up the essential communications that already exist The problem is that there isn't enough radio spectrum in the allocated bands to support the existing communications to the required resilience and also accommodate a vast increase in operational data traffic. Ofcom correctly believes that now is the time to address this before it gets completely out of hand."