EDGE and UMTS High Speed Broadband Access for Mobile and Fixed Internet Access

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EDGE and UMTS High Speed Broadband Access for
Mobile and Fixed Internet Access

• AHCIET-CITEL Broadband Wireless Access Seminar
• Erasmo Rojas
• Director Latin America Caribbean, 3G Americas
• El Salvador, October 20, 2003

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3G Americas Members and Mission
Promote and facilitate the seamless deployment of
GSM, GPRS, EDGE and UMTS (WCDMA) throughout the
Americas.
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World Digital Cellular Subscribers June 2003
Nearly 82 of Global Digital Subscribers
72.49
990 Million Combined!
13.18
9.15
5.11
.07
GSM
CDMA
TDMA
PDC
WCDMA
159 Million
62 Million
Source EMC World Cellular Database, Sept 2003
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Top 10 wireless markets
in Latin America
Source EMC World Cellular Database
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Wireless penetration in top 10 markets in Latin
America
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Latin American Growth
06/2002
06/2003
110 M
91.7 M
17.5 annual growth
60
9.5 M New Subs
Millions of Subscribers
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133 Annual Growth
June 2002
30
32 annual growth
June 2003
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6.3 M New Subs
7 M New Subs
0
GSM
TDMA
CDMA
Source EMC World Cellular Database, June 2003
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GSM OPERATORS IN LATIN AMERICA THE CARIBBEAN
El Salvador 2 French Guyana 2
French West Indies 2 Grenada
2 Guyana 1 Jamaica 2 Mexico
2 Montserrat 1 Netherlands
Antilles 3 Nicaragua
2 Panama 1 Paraguay 2 Peru
1 Puerto Rico 2 St.
Kitts Nevis 1 St. Lucia
3 St. Vincent/Grenadines 3 Suriname
2 Trinidad Tobago 1 Turks Caicos
Isles 1 US Virgin Islands
1 Venezuela 3
Anguilla 1 Antigua Barbuda 3 Argentina
1 Aruba 1 Bahamas 1 Barbados 2 Belize
2 Bermuda 2 Bolivia 2 Brazil
10 Cayman Islands 1 Chile 2 Colombia
2 Costa Rica 1 Cuba 1 Dominica 2 Dominican
Republic 1 Ecuador 1
77 Operators 40 Countries
Operator list includes those currently in
service and those to be launched by YE 2003.
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LEVEL OF COMPETITION
C full competition P partial competition M
monopoly
Source http//www.itu.int/ITU-D/treg/profiles/Lev
elOfComp-withall.asp
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COUNTRIES WITH A SEPARATE REGULATORY AUTHORITY
Source http//www.itu.int/ITU-D/treg/profiles/Sep
RegAuth.asp
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Value Added Services Evolution
Bandwidth
Streaming (video, audio)
MMS (electronic postcard)
Internet access (email, LBS)
SMS chat broadcast
Voice
Services
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EDGE offers average end-user data rates of 80-130
Kbps and up to 473 Kbps, offering a cost
effective upgrade to GPRS and providing three to
four times the data throughput of GPRS.
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Theoretical Optimal Data Rates
EDGE
473 Kbps
CDMA 1xRTT
GPRS
153 Kbps
80-130 Kbps
115 Kbps
Average Data Rates
30-40 Kbps
30-60 Kbps
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Evolution of Data Capabilities
Source Rysavy, Nov 2002
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EDGE UMTS for 3G Evolution

• EDGE Advantages
• Time to market
• Designed for existing spectrum 800/900/1800/1900
  MHz
• Low risk technology evolution from GSM/GPRS
• GSM global scale scope
• Chipsets, handsets, infrastructure and
  applications
• Lower capital investment, better vendor selection
• Global roaming
• UMTS Advantages
• Designed for new spectrum 2.1 GHz
• Deployment in re-farming of existing spectrum
  possible (i.e. 1900MHz)
• Uniform data rate across coverage area
• Symmetric uplink - downlink speeds
• Maximum supportable data rate is increased
• Greater spectral efficiency for higher average
  peak data rates

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EDGE and UMTS

• UMTS _at_ 5 MHz is more efficient for high service
  level due to the wideband structure and QoS
  features
• EDGE _at_ 200 kHz is more flexible for narrow
  spectrum allocations and performs well under
  about 128 kbps
• EDGE and UMTS share the same core network
• Upgrade from EDGE to UMTS is incremental with
  some projections of about 60K per cell site

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GLOBAL EVOLUTION TO 3G MULTIRADIO NETWORKS
UMTS Multiradio Network
GSM/GPRS/EDGE
WCDMA
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2G
3G Phase 1
Evolved 3G Networks
First Steps to 3G
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Economies of scale will drive 3G evolution Mobile
Subscriber Percentages by 2006
Over 85 of digital subscribers will be
GSM/EDGE/WCDMA by end 2006
Source Nokia 2002
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Muchas Gracias!
Erasmo Rojas Director, Latin America
Caribbean 3G Americas Office 972 516
4213 Erasmo.rojas_at_3gamericas.org