Alan Hadden, President, GSA

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GSA Secretariat: email info@gsacom.com

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LTE one global standard for 4G mobile broadband

LTE-Advanced is commercially launched

!! 150 Mbps peak downlink launched, 300 Mbps coming soon

Two Duplex Modes of LTE: 3GPP decided that LTE

should support both FDD and TDD modes

VoLTE is commercially launched

Initially enabling HD voice for LTE users

Global traction for LTE TDD systems (TD-LTE)

30 LTE TDD systems commercially launched

1800 MHz continues as the dominant band for LTE network deployments (LTE1800)
GSA Evolution to LTE report February 17, 2014

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LTE global success

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LTE growth
350+ forecast by end 2014

Q3 2013 = 157.7 million LTE subs

No. of subs more than tripled YoY (3.4 times)

Commercially launched LTE networks worldwide

> 110 million LTE subs added in past year > 29.1 million LTE subs added in Q3 2013 Forecast: 2.6 billion subs by 2019

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

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

FDD bands in use in commercially launched LTE networks

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

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

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 1800 MHz band 3 2100 MHz band 1 800 MHz band 20 700 MHz bands 12 or 17 AWS band 4 800/1800/2600 tri-band 700 MHz band 13 850 MHz band 5 900 MHz band 8 1900 MHz band 2 1900 MHz band 25 LTE TDD 2600 MHz band 38 2300 MHz band 40 2600 MHz band 41 1900 MHz band 39 3500 MHz band 42,43 493 devices 483 devices 354 devices 335 devices 308 devices 303 devices 298 devices 261 devices 243 devices 205 devices 149 devices 92 devices

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215 devices 207 devices 81 devices 80 devices 15 devices

39% of LTE devices are smartphones

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

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LTE evolution
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 !! Carrier Aggregation !! Higher order MIMO !! SON/Hetnets !! Interference management !! Relays

!! The two modes of LTE (FDD, TDD) each have similar performance and benefit equivalently from evolution of the LTE standard !! The commercial benefits arising from LTEs global economies of scale can be leveraged in FDD and TDD network deployments and user terminal production !! Suppliers are increasingly building in support for both FDD and TDD modes in their LTE systems and devices products

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 !! 142 models of Category 4 devices have been announced !! i.e. over 10% of all LTE devices !! Networks in over 25 countries can support Category 4 devices Category Peak downlink Peak uplink 3 100 50 4 150 50

300 Mbps peak downlink including support for Category 6 devices will soon be market reality !! 2 terminals support Category 6 devices have been announced
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Ensuring a consistent user experience using 4G/3G

547 commercially launched WCDMA-HSPA networks 1.4 billion subscriptions (Q3 2013)

42 Mbps DC-HSPA+ launched in 83 countries

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 344 LTE devices can operate on EV-DO networks 77 LTE devices can operate on TD-SCDMA networks

Improving performance HSPA peak downlink speeds

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APT700 band
Ideal spectrum for rural coverage, indoor urban penetration, making the business case for broadscale deployment of LTE service coverage

APT700 FDD band plan APT700 TDD band plan

3GPP band 28 3GPP band 44

703 748 MHz uplink

10 MHz

758 803 MHz downlink

703 803 MHz

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

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

APT700 band allocations already made to mobile network operators for LTE deployments: Australia Ecuador Fiji Japan New Zealand Papua New Guinea Taiwan

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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

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

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

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