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Market Study
Published: May 2010
Pages: 99
Tables: 30
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Research from: iDate
Sector: Mobile Networks

At a time where network congestion leads to dropped calls and interruptions in Internet access, this study presents the mobile traffic projections and capacity evaluation of IDATE experts’ based on several case studies. The aim of our in-depth analysis is, to determine the realities and to provide different scenarios for network saturation up to 2015.

 

Traffic Model & Scenarios
Conclusions of the study are based on the results of an in-house model

In this study, mobile broadband is considered as a service that provides user access to mobile services, via any mobile device and over any mobile technology at speeds higher than 2.75G.

Segmentation by network speeds
• GPRS roughly equates to 114 Kbps
• EDGE to 474 Kbps
• UMTS to 2 Mbps (stationary)
• HSPA to 7.2 Mbps
• HSPA+ to 28 Mbps
• LTE to 100 Mbps

Modelling methodology
All results below will be based on a simulation of an imaginary mobile operator already running a UMTS/HSPA network and later a LTE network in an imaginary territory.

1 step
We evaluated the capacity of a mobile network based on the following characteristics:
• 50 million population in a developed country
• Area: 400,000 – 500,000 km²
• Mobile operator has 33% market share.
• Spectrum availability: frequency band, number of channels, availability date… (see table below for detailed
values)
• Spectrum efficiency, maximum data rate for each technology
• Evaluation of the capacity of a cell
• Total monthly and yearly capacity of the network

2 step
We estimated the mobile traffic (voice and data), first on a worldwide basis and then for a network operator in a medium-sized country. This evaluation takes into account the following assumptions:
• Number of mobile subscriber and projections for 2010-2015
• % of broadband subscribers
• Voice and data traffic per user
• Total voice and data traffic

 

 

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