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Telecommunications equipment suppliers and operators see in mobile broadband the growth driver that is indispensable for their expansion. But implementing data services on mobile networks poses a series of both technical and economic problems for players in the ecosystem. In this study, we will analyse the issues in mobile broadband for these players, notably with services aimed at moving fixed Internet into a mobile environment.
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1. Mobile broadband already a reality
1.1. Services: promises and challenges of 3G/3G +
1.2. 3G rollouts
- 3G infrastructure coverage
- Number of 3G subscribers
1.3. Mobile data in the most mature markets
- Mobile ARPU levelling off in the major markets
- Growth of data services and ARPU
1.4. Mobile broadband: both an opportunity and threat for operators
- Vehicles of change: regulation and level of competition
- Opportunities inherent in data ARPU
1.5. Growing number of data flat rates
2. Technologies: the era of choice
2.1. Operators’ expectations: performances, IPR, handsets and cost
- Operators take the wheel: the NGMN alliance
- Gains and performance: speed and latency
2.2. Consensus on innovation
- Technological convergence
- Intellectual property rights: major holders and costs
2.3. Wireless spectrum issues
- Regulatory changes
- Spectrum requirements
- IMT Advanced and CMR 2007 candidate frequencies
3. Opportunities and threats for equipment manufacturers
3.1. The mobile equipment market
- Network equipment market still at the centre of the mobile ecosystem
- Handset market
- Competition and concentration
3.2. Ultra-fast mobile broadband rollouts will reshuffle the cards
- Operators’ investments driving the equipment market
- Making the transition from one generation to the next
- TD-SCDMA: competitor in the Chinese market
- South Korea: development of WiBro and contribution to the different standards
3.3. 3GPP LTE ecosystem dominates
- LTE: the choice of operators and equipment manufacturers
- WiMAX ecosystem: smaller and dependant on Intel
3.4. SWOT analysis of the different standards
4. Central issues for operators: rollout timetable and the technical-economic equation
4.1. Growing capacity requirements
- Increasing number of mobile broadband subscribers
- Capacity needs of mobile data services
- Mobile internet connectivity needs weighing on the networks
- Massive surge in data traffic
4.2. Stepped-up timetables
- Accelerated growth of sales for the latest generation of handsets
- New rollouts required starting in 2012 - 2014
- Deployment of LTE: acceleration in Japan and the US, possible delays in Europe
4.3. Meeting the rise in traffic: an insoluble technical-economic equation for operators?
- One objective: reduce the cost per Mb transported
- Improving technological performance not a cure-all
- More spectrum for greater capacity: a limited, medium-term solution
- Network densification: complicated and expensive
- Femtocells and convergence between fixed and mobile networks: the miracle solution that still needs to prove itself
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