GSA LTE Industry Overview APT700 Industry Seminar Barcelona 230214

1 Global mobile Suppliers Association www.gsacom.com

Alan Hadden, President, GSA

GSA - Global mobile Suppliers Association www.gsacom.com

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GSA Secretariat: email [email protected]

LTE one global standard for 4G mobile broadband


LTE-Advanced is commercially launched q150 Mbps peak downlink launched, 300 Mbps coming soon

1800 MHz continues as the dominant band for LTE network deployments (LTE1800)

Global traction for LTE TDD systems (TD-LTE) 30 LTE TDD systems commercially launched

2 Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA)

VoLTE is commercially launched Initially enabling HD voice for LTE users

GSA Evolution to LTE report February 17, 2014

Two Duplex Modes of LTE: 3GPP decided that LTE should support both FDD and TDD modes

LTE global success


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LTE growth


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Q3 2013 = 157.7 million LTE subs No. of subs more than tripled YoY (3.4 times) > 110 million LTE subs added in past year > 29.1 million LTE subs added in Q3 2013 Forecast: 2.6 billion subs by 2019

Market share Q3 2013 North America = 50% APAC = 41.6% Europe = 6.4% RoW = 2%

FDD bands in use in commercially launched LTE networks

LTE1800 is mainstream 1800 MHz (band 3) used in 43% of commercially launched LTE networks

Commercially launched LTE networks worldwide

350+ forecast by end 2014

FDD mode has been deployed by most LTE operators TDD gaining share; now deployed in 11% of LTE networks

LTE user devices ecosystem


FDD and TTD devices 705 new LTE terminals announced in 12 months = 106% YoY growth 132 manufacturers = 52% growth YoY

1,371 LTE User Devices GSA monitors and researches worldwide mobile broadband developments and publishes facts, statistics and trends. 263 LTE networks are commercially launched globally. GSA forecasts this will rise to 350 networks by end 2014 (see GSAs Evolution to LTE report January 15, 2014). There were 157.7 million LTE subscriptions worldwide by September 30, 2013. 1,371 LTE user devices including frequency and carrier variants are announced by 132 suppliers according to GSAs research to January 23, 2014. 705 new LTE devices were launched in the past year, representing 106% YoY growth. The number of manufacturers increased by 51.7% to 132 in the same period (January 2013 = 87). LTE devices address all product segments see chart below:

1,371 LTE user devices - form factors January 2014 GSA Global mobile Suppliers Association Smartphones are the largest LTE device category. 533 smartphones are announced, including operator and frequency variants, representing c. 39% share of all LTE device types. LTE-connected tablets and personal hotspots are also fast-growing segments. Most devices operate in the FDD mode. However, 304 devices now support LTE TDD mode (TD-LTE).

LTE user devices growth GSA Global mobile Suppliers Association

Download above charts via the links on www.gsacom.com

LTE network operating frequencies LTE networks are operating in many bands (see chart Spectrum used in LTE networks (FDD and TDD deployments) via the link on http://www.gsacom.com. The table below confirms which bands are most supported by the devices ecosystem. Several devices are multiband and/or multimode.

LTE FDD 2600 MHz band 7 493 devices 1800 MHz band 3 483 devices 2100 MHz band 1 354 devices 800 MHz band 20 335 devices 700 MHz bands 12 or 17 308 devices AWS band 4 303 devices 800/1800/2600 tri-band 298 devices 700 MHz band 13 261 devices 850 MHz band 5 243 devices 900 MHz band 8 205 devices 1900 MHz band 2 149 devices 1900 MHz band 25 92 devices

LTE TDD 2600 MHz band 38 215 devices 2300 MHz band 40 207 devices 2600 MHz band 41 81 devices 1900 MHz band 39 80 devices 3500 MHz band 42,43 15 devices

Note 1: Manufacturers have not declared operating frequencies or fallback modes for some products Note 2: Certain products are carrier or country specific and are therefore not available in all markets LTE / 3G fallback support

985 LTE devices also operate on either HSPA, HSPA+ or DC-HSPA+ networks

480 LTE devices support DC-HSPA+ 344 LTE devices also support EV-DO 77 LTE devices also support TD-SCDMA

99% of LTE phones are multimode/3G capable

33% of LTE phones support DC-HSPA+ 93% of LTE tablets are multimode/3G capable

24% of LTE tablets support DC-HSPA+

Category 4 devices LTE UE device Category 4 offers an enhanced user experience supporting a peak downlink data rate up to 150 Mbps and peak uplink up to 50 Mbps. Operators in at least 25 countries have

39% of LTE devices are smartphones

GSA Status of the LTE Devices Ecosystem report January 24, 2014

1,371 LTE user devices by form factor

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LTE evolution


Category

Peak downlink

Peak uplink

3

100

50

4

150

50

LTE-Advanced improves spectrum efficiency, delivers increases in capacity and coverage, and the ability to support more customers/devices more efficiently, to maintain and improve the user experience of mobile broadband qCarrier Aggregation qHigher order MIMO qSON/Hetnets q Interference management qRelays

LTE-Advanced is market reality today Carrier aggregation is commercially in service, today enabling theoretical peak downlink data throughput of 150 Mbps Several operators are deploying up to 20 MHz paired spectrum using the carrier aggregation feature intraband with contiguous or non-contiguous spectrum to achieve similar performance when used with Category 4 terminals q142 models of Category 4 devices have been announced

q i.e. over 10% of all LTE devices

qNetworks in over 25 countries can support Category 4 devices

300 Mbps peak downlink including support for Category 6 devices will soon be market reality q2 terminals support Category 6 devices have been announced

q The two modes of LTE (FDD, TDD) each have similar performance and benefit equivalently from evolution of the LTE standard

q The commercial benefits arising from LTEs global economies of scale can be leveraged in FDD and TDD network deployments and user

terminal production q Suppliers are increasingly building in support for both FDD and TDD

modes in their LTE systems and devices products

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Ensuring a consistent user experience using 4G/3G


Improving performance HSPA peak downlink speeds

344 LTE devices can operate on EV-DO networks

547 commercially launched WCDMA-HSPA networks

42 Mbps DC-HSPA+ launched in 83 countries

1.4 billion subscriptions (Q3 2013)

99% of LTE smartphones are multimode, capable of operating on 3G networks (i.e. HSPA/HSPA+ or EV- DO or TD-SCDMA). This shows how it is key to ensure consistent user experiences for data and voice with broad coverage (wherever users need it). o 985 LTE devices can operate on either HSPA, HSPA+ or

DC-HSPA+ networks

o 33% of LTE phones can operate on 42 Mbps DC- HSPA+ systems

77 LTE devices can operate on TD-SCDMA networks 7

APT700 band


APT700 FDD band plan

The FDD band plan has attracted the most support identified for use in markets covering almost 2.2 billion people

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3GPP band 28 703 748 MHz uplink 758 803 MHz downlink 10 MHz

APT700 TDD band plan 3GPP band 44 703 803 MHz

Commitments/endorsements to allocate APT700 spectrum include: Latin America and the Caribbean:

Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Venezuela APAC/Oceania: Australia, Brunei, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Tonga UAE confirmed its adoption of the lower 2 x 30 MHz duplexer. This is also the preferred frequency arrangement for the 700 MHz band in Europe/ITU Region 1

APT700 band allocations already made to mobile network operators for LTE deployments:

Australia Ecuador Fiji Japan New Zealand Papua New Guinea Taiwan

This is the first time that a technology in one band is available almost globally !!

Ideal spectrum for rural coverage, indoor urban penetration, making the business case for broadscale deployment of LTE service coverage

APT700 Ecosystem


Standardised by ETSI (band 28), supported by infrastructure vendors

Trials at an advanced stage, network deployments progressing in several markets

Choice of user devices today is limited - adding APT700 to a terminal not a major issue

Telstra, GSA and GSMA launched a joint campaign to promote APT700 http://www.gsacom.com/news/gsa_389.php

Information papers, news/updates www.gsacom.com/apt700

APT700 band http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4759091

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GSA LTE Industry Overview APT700 Industry Seminar Barcelona 230214