TMT Predictions 2025
In 2025 and beyond, what can we expect from gen AI, telecommunications, tech, entertainment, and sports?
As we look ahead to 2025, the TMT sector is poised for a significant leap forward, driven by rapid GenAI adoption. This year’s report highlights critical gaps that need to be addressed, predicting 2025 as a “gap year” with eight key areas to bridge. These include balancing GenAI infrastructure investments with monetisation, addressing gender disparities in GenAI usage, managing the energy consumption of GenAI data centers, and tackling trust concerns surrounding deepfake content.
In addition to these trends, this report also provides actionable strategies to address the critical gaps and seize new opportunities. Whether you are looking to innovate, grow, or transform your business, this report will help you navigating the TMT landscape in 2025 and beyond.
Read all the predictions below to learn more about what Deloitte predicts.
Generative AI
The tech industry should optimise infrastructure, rethink chip design, and collaborate with electricity providers to help secure a more sustainable future for data centers
For women to reap the full rewards of gen AI, tech companies should work to increase trust, reduce bias, and strive for more representative workforces
With specialised chips and extensive mobile OS integration, smartphones could become smart—even intelligent. Will users embrace the new approach?
Autonomous gen AI agents—agentic AI—could increase the productivity of knowledge workers and make workflows of all kinds more efficient. But the “autonomous” part may take time for wide adoption
As the effort to detect and combat fake content escalates, the costs of maintaining a credible internet may fall on consumers, creators, and advertisers alike
Media, entertainment, and sports
Sports owners transform stadiums into destinations, driving socioeconomic growth, community engagement, and revenue diversification
Video content creators may need more distributors to reach their total addressable market
Hollywood (and others) may be cautious about using gen AI for content creation, but they will likely be quicker to adopt it for operations and distribution
Telecom and technology
In many markets, smaller wireless telecoms see slow growth, low profits, and have debt to repay. M&A, specifically combining assets or even entire consumer-facing companies, may help where it gets approved by regulators
Enterprise cloud spend is growing, and using FinOps strategies can make each dollar work harder. Companies can save money, boost value, and build cross-functional cohesion
Looking forward … and back
TMT Predictions explores AI's impact on cyber defense, chiplets for higher semiconductor yields, telcos modernising with cloud-based systems, and silicon photonics for AI data centers
TMT Predictions revisits previous predictions on enterprise edge computing, 5G telecom, women’s sports, quantum-resistant encryption, and the geopolitics of open-source semiconductors
