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EDGE, HSPA and LTE Continue to Lead and Innovate Mobile Broadband
(Marketwire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) BELLEVUE, WA, September 3 / MARKET WIRE/ --
"UMTS/HSPA has exploited tremendous innovation
to deliver capabilities on a global scale never achieved by any other
technology, offering operators key technical and business advantages,"
concluded Peter Rysavy, President of Rysavy Research and author of the
white paper published today by 3G Americas. "EDGE, HSPA and LTE Broadband
Innovation" discusses the significant evolution of these 3GPP technologies,
their capabilities and their positions relative to other primary competing
technologies. Rysavy continued, "Because of the practical benefits and
deployment momentum, the migration path from EDGE to HSPA then to LTE is
inevitable. Benefits include the ability to roam globally, huge economies
of scale, widespread acceptance by operators, complementary services such
as messaging and multimedia and an astonishing variety of competitive
handsets and other devices."
Some key observations and conclusions highlighted in the "EDGE, HSPA and
LTE Broadband Innovation" white paper include:
-- GSM/UMTS has an overwhelming global position in terms of subscribers,
deployment, and services. Its success will marginalize other wide-area
wireless technologies.
-- In current deployments, HSPA users regularly experience throughput
rates well in excess of 1 megabit per second (Mbps), under favorable
conditions, on both downlinks and uplinks. Planned enhancements will
increase these peak user-achievable throughput rates, with 4 Mbps on
commercial networks being commonly measured.
-- HSPA Evolution (HSPA+) provides a strategic performance roadmap
advantage for incumbent GSM/UMTS operators. HSPA+ with 2x2 MIMO, successive
interference cancellation, and 64 QAM is more spectrally efficient than
competing technologies including WiMAX Wave 2 with 2x2 MIMO and EV-DO Rev
B.
-- The LTE RAN technical specification was approved in January 2008 and
is being incorporated into 3GPP Release 8, which is close to completion.
Initial deployments are likely to occur around 2010. The 3GPP OFDMA
approach used in LTE matches or exceeds the capabilities of any other OFDMA
system.
-- LTE has become the technology platform of choice as GSM/UMTS and
CDMA/EV-DO operators are making strategic long-term decisions on their next-
generation platforms. In June of 2008, after extensive evaluation, LTE was
the first and only technology recognized by the NGMN alliance to meet its
broad requirements.
-- GSM/HSPA will comprise the overwhelming majority of subscribers over
the next five to ten years, even as new wireless technologies are adopted.
The deployment of LTE and its coexistence with UMTS/HSPA will be analogous
to the deployment of UMTS/HSPA and its coexistence with GSM.
-- 3GPP is now studying how to enhance LTE to meet the requirements of
IMT-Advanced in a project called LTE Advanced.
-- UMTS/HSPA/LTE have significant economic advantages over other wireless
technologies.
-- WiMAX has developed an ecosystem supported by many companies, but it
will still only represent a very small percentage of wireless subscribers
over the next five to ten years.
Building on a customer base exceeding 3.3 billion connections today
including an estimated 251.5 million UMTS/HSPA mobile broadband
subscriptions (September 2008), the GSM family of technologies is available
on 750 networks in 218 countries of the world. EDGE is commercial on 350
networks and UMTS has proven to be the most widely deployed 3G technology
with more than 290 operators in various stages of deployment in 120
countries, of which 211 operators in 90 countries have upgraded to HSDPA
services and continue network improvements to HSPA. Announcements have
already begun in support of the next 3GPP evolutionary step to LTE,
including trials and anticipated deployments, by the world's most prominent
operators including AT&T, China Mobile, China Telecom, NTT DoCoMo, Verizon
and Vodafone. In fact, combining the existing customer bases of the 20 or
so operators, both GSM and CDMA operators, who have announced intentions to
follow the LTE migration strategy, there are more than a billion
connections represented today within their networks.
Chris Pearson, President of 3G Americas, stated, "The mobile broadband
internet highway is being built by the GSM family of technologies in an
eloquent, efficient and robust manner. The high speed wireless data
capabilities and efficiencies of HSPA, HSPA+ and LTE deliver on the promise
of a fast and efficient wireless super highway for business and consumers
throughout the world. Other technologies attempt to challenge the GSM
family of technologies with pledges, vows and suggestions of greater
capabilities and greater efficiencies, however, as the wireless
superhighway comes closer to reality, the clear winner is HSPA, HSPA+ and
LTE and the customers these technologies will serve." Pearson continued,
"Furthermore, the GSM family of technologies including GSM, EDGE, HSPA and
LTE will continue to lead the world not just this day, this year or next,
but for years to come."
In addition to the technical and business investigation and examination,
numerous technical details and comparisons were researched and analyzed by
Rysavy Research in writing this instrumental research paper. The white
paper provides detailed analysis and specific charts and comparisons of
EDGE, Evolved EDGE, HSPA, HSPA+, LTE, EV-DO, UMB, and Mobile WiMAX. Graphics and charts are provided throughout the white paper for
ease of use and understanding by the reader.
"It is EDGE/HSPA/LTE that provides one of the most robust portfolios of
mobile-broadband technologies, and it is an optimum framework for realizing
the potential of this market," said Rysavy.
This white paper "EDGE, HSPA and LTE Broadband Innovation," as well
its accompanying slide presentation, was created collaboratively
with Rysavy Research by the member organizations of 3G Americas and is
available for free download at the 3G Americas website: www.3gamericas.org.
About 3G Americas: Unifying the Americas through Wireless Technology
3G Americas is an industry trade organization composed of
telecommunications service providers and manufacturers. The organization's
mission is to promote and facilitate the seamless deployment throughout the
Americas of the GSM family of technologies, including LTE. 3G Americas has
contributed to the successful commercial rollout of GSM across the Americas
and its place as the number one technology in the region, as well as the
global adoption of EDGE. The organization aims to develop the expansive
wireless ecosystem of networks, devices, and applications enabled by GSM
and its evolution to LTE. 3G Americas is headquartered in Bellevue, WA
with an office for Latin America and the Caribbean in Dallas, Texas. More
information is available at www.3gamericas.org.
Glossary of Terms
3GPP - Third Generation Partnership Project
EDGE - Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution
EV-DO Rev B - Evolved Data Optimized Revision B
HSDPA - High Speed Downlink Packet Access
HSUPA - High Speed Uplink Packet Access
HSPA - High Speed Packet Access (both HSDPA and HSUPA)
HSPA Evolution, HSPA+ or HSPA plus - further evolution of HSPA
LTE - Long Term Evolution
MIMO - Multiple Input Multiple Output [antenna]
msec - milliseconds
NGMN - Next Generation Mobile Network
OFDMA - Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access
QAM - Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
RAN - Radio Access Network
UMTS/WCDMA - Universal Mobile Telephone Service/Wideband Code Division
Multiple Access
WiMAX - Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access
Contact:
Vicki Livingston
(262) 242 3458Email Contact
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