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GSM to 3G and Beyond
June 2009


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3.7 Bi llion GSM-HSPA subscriptions worldwide today and growing

Largest scope and scale: over 750 mobile GSM network operators in 219 countries

GSM family technologies held an estimated 89% market share of global digital wireless
subscriptions as of March 2009 and an estimated 72% Western Hemisphere market share
that continues to grow

GSM technologies have an estimated 89% market share in the Latin America and Caribbean
region today and growing

Worldwide, there were nearly 330 million UMTS-HSPA subscriptions as of March 2009, and
over 474 million are projected by year end 2009

GSM-UMTS-HSPA customers will comprise the overwhelming majority of subscribers over
the next ten years, even as new wireless technologies are adopted


UMTS-HSPA accounts for the majority of worldwide broadband networks today, and wil l continue its
leadership for the next decade.

HSPA is faster than any other mobile broadband technology ever deployed

285 commercial UMTS-HSPA networks in 125 countries (J une 2009)

Over 1,389 commercial HSDPA devices from 138 suppliers have been made available
worldwide since the technology's launch (GSM Association, J une 2009)

329 million UMTS-HSPA subscriptions worldwide in March 2009

By end of 2013, the global 3G wireless market will include over 2 billion subscriptions, of
which 1.6 billion will be 3GPP family technologies with 80% share of market

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The GSM-UMTS technical migration from HSPA to HSPA+ and LTE wil l be the most compelling
choice for most operators around the world.

HSPA
HSPA is an enhancement to UMTS and offers a successful combination of spectral
efficiency (3 times that of UMTS) and high speed data throughput, thus enabling true mass
market mobile broadband

HSPA users can expect typical downlink throughput rates of 700 to 1700 Kbps. Planned
enhancements will increase peak user-achievable throughput rates, with operators already
measuring 4 Mbps on some networks.

HSUPA users experience typical uplink throughput rates of 500 to 1200 Kbps today

UMTS-HSPA technology and its evolution beyond 3G will compete with any and all mobile
wireless technologies available today and in the near future.


HSPA+
HSPA+, a simple upgrade to the HSPA networks today, protects an operators investment in
the network

HSPA+provides a strategic performance roadmap advantage for incumbent GSM-HSPA
operators providing OFDMA-equivalent performance in 5X5 MHz spectrum allocations with
only incremental investment

HSPA+will significantly increase HSPA capacity as well as reduce latency below 50 msec

The first phase of HSPA+with 64 QAM is already being deployed by some carriers providing
a peak theoretical downlink throughput rate of 21.6 Mbps

HSPA+with 64 QAM and 2X2 MIMO can deliver 42 Mbps theoretical capability on the
downlink and 11.5 Mbps on the uplink and could be ready for deployment in 2010. This is
afforded by the standards although there have only been announcements of trials to date.


LTE
Most leading operators, device and infrastructure manufacturers, as well as content
providers support LTE as the mobile technology of the future

LTE, a high data rate, low latency radio-access technology, is the next evolution beyond
UMTS-HSPA and will utilize Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA)
technology

LTE trials are now underway with early stages of LTE deployment expected in 2010

LTEs OFDMA approach matches or exceeds the capabilities of any other OFDMA system

LTE uses advanced antenna techniques such as Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO),
which will allow operators to achieve even higher peak throughputs in higher spectrum
bandwidth. 3GPP reports peak theoretical downlink throughput rates of up to 326 Mbps and
86 Mbps uplink in 20 MHz with 4X4 MIMO.
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LTE assumes full-IP network architecture, and is designed to support voice in the packet
domain. Other features include:
o Scalability to operate in bandwidths from 1.4 to 20 MHz
o Operability in both TDD and FDD modes
o Reduced latency, to 10 milliseconds round-trip time between user equipment and
the base station, and to less than 100 milliseconds transition time from inactive to
active


Evolution of TDMA, CDMA and OFDMA Systems



Source EDGE, HSPA and LTE Broadband Innovations. 3G Americas and Rysavy Research, September 2008



3G Americas member companies are fully engaged in defining future IMT-Advanced (so-called 4G )
requirements through the ITU process and will have supporting technology i n place.

The ITU has provided the term IMT-Advanced to define further generations of mobile
wireless technology

3GPP is working on LTE-Advanced which will meet IMT-Advanced requirements with a time
line for deployment expected to begin sometime after 2012