In its 14th year Deloitte's Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) Predictions presents our view on the major trends that will impact UK businesses in 2015. Knowing what will come next in tech, media and telco trends has become a key competitive differentiator and can give your business a leading edge. Deloitte's predictions are based on hundreds of conversations with industry executives, and tens of thousands of online interviews with members of the public around the world.

Our endeavour is to provide a considered point of view on key industry trends. In some cases we seek to identify the drivers behind major inflection points and milestones, such as the first billion-unit year for the smartphone sector, or the take-off of contactless mobile payments. In others our intent is to explain why we are not expecting fundamental change, such as in the use of drones for home deliveries, or in smartphone battery technology. We also consider it critical to examine sub-trends. For instance, broadband speeds are, on average, increasing at a double-digit pace, but in many markets the average is being lifted by significant performance improvements among the fastest connections, while slower connections remain sluggish.