[cooperation-wg] Net Futures 2016

Last week saw Net Futures 2016 in Brussels.

http://netfutures2016.eu/

A good opportunity to hear people like Andrus Ansip - Vice-President & Commissioner for Digital Single Market, Günther Oettinger - Commissioner for Digital Economy & Society, Lise Fuhr - Director General of ETNO, Mats Granryd - GSMA Director General and so on; people you tend not to get all together in the same place that often.

There are various videos available and I have been told slide-packs may be available soon. But I can recommend a look at the speeches given by the two Commissioners:

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/2014-2019/ansip/announcements/speech-given-vice-president-ansip-net-futures-2016-driving-growth-digital-single-market_en

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/2014-2019/oettinger/announcements/keynote-speech-closing-plenary-session-net-futures-2016-brussels_en

It was interesting how various ideas were presented. 

The current “consumer Internet” versus the future “industrial Internet”. 

The perceived need to move from "one size fits all" and "best effort", towards networks that can adapt to the different requirements of different vertical sectors, and that can deliver "guaranteed and ubiquitous quality of service”.

The tying together of “things" with 5G. So a “thing” is something with one or more sim’s? And so it is somehow tied to mobile operator? 

And anyway 5G does almost everything?

And so on.

I could recommend going to Net Futures 2017!

Gordon