Mobile Broadband. For today. For the future.

Key benefits: HSPA builds on the successful GSM business model, offering users secure network interoperability access and global roaming Global adoption, delivering significant economies of scale Large ecosystem of operators and vendors True broadband alternative, providing access to urban and rural communities Simultaneous voice and high-speed data connections

Mobile Broadband, today HSPA networks in service - 290 Countries with HSPA network coverage - 123 HSPA Device Models - over 1800 HSPA Operators - 295 WCDMA / HSPA connections - over 170 million

What is Mobile Broadband?

With 295 commercial networks launched around the world, HSPA is today driving development of the Mobile Broadband sector.

It also provides the ability to stream videos with very highresolution results, to enjoy a huge variety of multimedia entertainment services, and to access music online with ease.

HSPA is the set of technologies defining the migration path of 3G/W-CDMA operators worldwide. HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) delivers a 5-10 fold increase in downlink data rates of standard 3G/W-CDMA networks, enabling users to access the Internet on mobile phones and laptops, at speeds previously associated with fixed line DSL. But HSPA is not just about opening large email attachments on the go, or updating corporate databases in realtime.

High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) technology is already enabling the delivery of commercial Mobile Broadband services in excess of such speeds, and is proving itself as the logical choice for operators wanting to offer Mobile Broadband services to both urban and rural consumer and enterprise users.

Mobile Broadband typically refers to the delivery of enduser downlink data rates of 500 kbps or more while providing full mobility.

A network enhancement with HSUPA (High Speed Uplink Packet Access) will dramatically increases the uplink data rates of todays current 3G/W-CDMA networks. This technology is likely to boost the amount of data uploaded over mobile networks, especially user-generated content.

This clear technology path will ensure that the HSPA family of technologies will continue to dominate alternative Mobile Broadband offerings. Digital Dividend planning new spectrum for rural broadband Digital Dividend spectrum is low frequency spectrum, in which radio signals travel long distances and can easily penetrate the walls of buildings and other obstacles. It is approximately 70% cheaper to provide Mobile Broadband coverage over a given geographic area using this low frequency spectrum than with the 2100 MHz spectrum widely used for Mobile Broadband services today.

This makes this spectrum particularly well-suited to providing Mobile Broadband coverage in rural areas, deep inside buildings and other hard-to-reach places. www.gsmworld.com/DDoverview

Mobile Broadband Evolution

HSPA HSPA, is the umbrella term to include the downlink enhancement - HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access), and the uplink enhancement - HSUPA (High Speed Packet Access). Unlike many other Mobile Broadband technologies, HSPA provides very efficient voice services in combination with Mobile Broadband data, enabling mobile operators to continue to pursue their conventional business models for voice services whilst at the same time driving new revenues through increased uptake of high-speed data services. HSUPA vastly improves uplink peak rates, enabling uplink speeds of up to 5.7 Mbps. HSUPA also significantly improves the network capacity, as well as reducing uplink packet latency to better enable packet-based communication services. HSPA+ Also known as HSPA Evolution, HSPA+ involves a series of technical enhancements that can dramatically enhance the speed and responsiveness of existing HSPA networks, while potentially doubling their capacity. Telstra, in Australia, has already commercially launched with peak rates at 21Mbps, and through 2009 we can expect to see a growing number of operators supporting peak downlink speeds of 21 to 28 Mbps through HSPA+, with the capacity to upgrade to peak bit rates of 42 Mbps. LTE Designed to be compatible with GSM and HSPA, Long Term Evolution incorporates MIMO in combination with OFDMA in the downlink and Single Carrier FDMA in the uplink to provide peak end user data rates up to 172 Mbps, coupled with major improvements in capacity and reductions in latency. Developing in parallel, LTE and HSPA+ are expected to achieve similar levels of spectral efficiency.The Worlds 1st 21 Mbps Network

The very latest HSDPA networks, such as that deployed by Telstra in Australia, support a downlink peak rate of up to 14.4 Mbps. In most HSDPA networks around the world, the enduser can expect to enjoy speeds of at least 1Mbps depending on how many people are using the network at the time, how far the user is from the base station and other factors. Equally important, HSDPA increases UMTS capacity approximately three fold, and reduces latency substantially. HSDPA network services were first deployed in 2005 by AT&T (formerly Cingular) in the United States and Manx Telecom in the U.K.

Mobile Broadband For Today. For the Future.

WCDMA / HSPA / LTE provides backwards and forwards compatibility and evolution

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DL / UL: 384kbps DL (HSDPA): 14.4Mbps UL (HSUPA): 5.72Mbps HSPA+ DL: 42Mbps * UL: 11Mbps LTE DL: 172Mbps UL: 50Mbps

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HSPA Networks Global

Global Mobile Broadband Applications Tanzania

Community shared access to data
HSPA Network: 7.2 Mbps Vodacom Tanzania is defying the countrys extreme poverty and bridging the digital divide, by using Mobile Broadband to deliver low-cost, shared access to the internet. Vodacoms 7.2 Mbps HSPA network has brought low-cost, ultra fast internet access to a country that had barely experienced broadband. Vodacom sees significant potential in lower ARPU segments, driven largely by Vodacom Internet cafes using Vodacoms shared access to data services. Housed within a refurbished shipping container, the shared facilities have lowered the barriers to access the inter

Excerpts from HSPA operator case study series, available on our website: www.gsmworld.com/mbb

Brazil
Broadband access, where fixed lines dont reach
HSPA Network: 7.2 Mbps Claro spent much of 2008 expanding its HSPA network coverage and capacity. By the beginning of the year, only a few months after the initial launch, many Brazilians were calling on Claro to provide a Mobile Broadband service in their neighbourhoods. The volume of data traffic carried on the network has soared twentyfold since the launch of the HSPA network. Customers stream or download videos and swap files the far more bandwidth hungry applications than email or web browsing.

Sri Lanka
Mobile Broadband for all
HSPA Network: 14.4 Mbps Dialog has leveraged Mobile Broadband technology to deliver affordable internet access to all levels of society. By upgrading its 3G network to HSPA it could bring low-cost broadband to homes, businesses and internet cafes in Sri Lanka. To deliver access to the poorer people, it provides sachet marketing allowing regular small pre-paid top-ups. For the very bottom of the pyramid, Dialog has addressed Sri Lankas low PC and internet penetration rates, by establishing over 25 shared access internet cafes, operated by a local entrepreneur. Running on their HSPA network, the cafes provide a low-cost opportunity for the community to gain a broadband connection and the social and economic benefits from internet access.

The number of subscribers was a surprise, and the traffic used by each subscriber was higher than expected. Where the fixed internet didnt reach, we reached with 3G [HSPA]. DecioFarias, Claro Brazil

Middle East
Consumer data-rich applications
HSPA Network: 14.4 Mbps United Arab Emirates is accustomed to rapid growth, as has Etisalat experienced in subscriber volumes since the launch of its HSPA network. Consumers have had a healthy demand for content, using Flickr, Youtube and mobile TV from their handsets. 20% of Etisalats HSPA subscribers are watching Mobile TV. With great success, Etisalat streamed live cricket to fans handsets during the world cup. MobileCam, a remote monitoring camera, uses video telephony capabilities to keep an eye on the children, the office or adhoc filming. A wireless, hand-held HSPA-enabled camera with SIM, is accessed and controlled by a 3G phone.

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The Worlds 1st 21 Mbps Network
HSPA Network: 21 Mbps The first commercial Mobile Broadband network world-wide capable of delivering traffic at a blazing 21 megabits per second 375 times the speed of a dial-up connection is now live in Australia. Before the end of 2009, Telstra expects its Next G networks peak transmission rate to rise to 42Mbps through the use of multi-carrier technology, which enables users to receive data simultaneously via two frequency channels. Telstras Next G network is used by consumers and enterpise customers to deliver a broad range of applications from health care to mobile TV.

The rural American Mid-West is very poorly served by broadband services. Users rely on dial-up, limited lowspeed cable and DSL broadband, or expensive satellite and microwave services. This means that isolated communities that would greatly benefit from services such as online healthcare or ecommerce are being left behind. Why HSPA? The operator chose HSPA for its network after carefully studying all the options available for wireless broadband within its AWS 1700/2100 MHz spectrum. When we started the project, we planned to use WiMAX, but when looked deeper into it, we discovered that WiMAX simply wasnt advanced enough, said Ed Evans CEO of Stelera. We were concerned about the lack of WiMAX vendors and the more we dug, the more it looked like vapourware. The alternative, HSPA, however, ticked all the boxes for Stelera: there were many more vendors in the market and it offered a clear upgrade path through to the very high speed services via 3GPPs Long Term Evolution (LTE).

HSPA plugs rural broadband gap

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Mobilising enterprises
HSPA Network: 7.2 Mbps When AT&Ts Mobile Broadband services were launched in 2005, they were initially aimed at business customers. Early adopters were attracted to dual-mode HSDPA/EDGE data cards that plugged directly into laptops giving them super fast, unlimited connectivity anywhere within its nationwide footprint. For even greater convenience, notebook manufacturers began embedding HSPA chips in their notebooks so the user doesnt require an additional connection device. This is now commonplace in over 350 notebooks.

Innovative networks such as Steleras are essential for bridging the digital divide in the worlds largest economy. Stelera has proved that HSPA is well suited for bringing broadband services to rural communities. It offers much higher network speeds than comparable fixed technologies and the vast majority of users are able to access the service without needing expensive truck roll installation. The majority-wireless network can be deployed very quickly and the all-IP architecture keeps the deployment costs low.

The HSPA ecosystem continues to thrive with a growing number of operators launching HSPA networks. View the full network listing and details at www.gsmworld.com/mbb

HSPA Global Networks January 2010

In Service Committed No 3G Licence

HSPA Networks Global

In Service: Countries: 7.2Mbps and faster: Enhanced Uplink (HSUPA): HSPA+ Operators: 295 123 115 92 37

Q1 2010 World Forecast

Europe: Western North America Middle East Americas Africa Europe: Eastern Asia Pacific 1,000 900

North America
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Q1 2010 Forecast Data

World (Total) Africa Americas Asia Pacic Europe: Eastern Europe: Western Middle East North America 217,229,934 5,243,910 9,687,072 75,619,147 5,830,304 68,879,035 6,664,583 45,305,883

For further information Email: mbb@gsm.org Visit: www.gsmworld.com/mbb Source: GSMA and Wireless Intelligence, January 2010