UMTS 900MHz Overview

March 2006
Agenda

Executive Summary
Spectrum Update
Drivers and Benefits
Deployment Considerations
Industry Support

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Executive Summary

UMTS900 combines superior performance of UMTS with

coverage benefits of 900MHz spectrum

UMTS900 provides excellent coverage in rural areas

UMTS900 improves in-door coverage and augments

capacity in urban areas

UMTS900 can co-exist with GSM900

UMTS900 has broad based industry support

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3GPP Defined UMTS Frequency Bands

UMTS900

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UMTS Spectrum is Expanding
Current Spectrum
China Proposed Spectrum
N America Europe
UMTS2100
UMTS1900 UMTS2100
UMTS1800
UMTS850 UMTS1800 Korea
UMTS900
UMTS1700/2100 (AWS) UMTS900 UMTS2100

Japan
UMTS2100
UMTS1700
UMTS800
LATAM India
UMTS2100 UMTS2100
UMTS850 Australia
UMTS1900 /NZ
UMTS2100
UMTS850

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UMTS900 Drivers and Benefits

Ideal for Rural Coverage

900MHz has better RF propagation
3G License coverage obligations More capacity with same no. of sites
Including rural coverage OR Less numbers of sites with same
requirements coverage/capacity than GSM900
Indoor coverage in Urban areas Cost Effective Option for Urban In-
Subscribers expect good indoor door coverage

UMTS 900
coverage Better in-door coverage
Traffic Growth Cost-effective than in-door sites
Demand for both voice and data
continue to grow
Higher capacity than GSM900
Leverage Available Spectrum Supports future Voice and Data
growth
Efficient use of available 900 MHz
spectrum Provides homogenous network
Option for operators without 3G Single network for both voice and
spectrum
data
Reduced CAPEX and OPEX

UMTS900 combines spectral efficiency of WCDMA

with coverage benefits of 900 MHz band
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Advantages of UMTS900

RF propagation of 900MHz signal is good in Rural and Suburban morphologies

Cell radius of 900MHz site is more than double of that of 2.1GHz
Better outdoor coverage of 900MHz band provides increased in-building
penetration margin

UMTS900 Cell radius is about 50% greater than that of GSM900

UMTS link budget is at least 6dB better than that of GSM

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Rural Deployment Strategy - 1

Provide efficient 3G voice and data coverage

GSM900

UMTS900
Selective
overlay

UMTS900
GSM900

Extend 3G coverage to rural areas

Low-cost solution - selective overlay (over GSM900)
UMTS link budget is better than GSM providing similar coverage and
capacity with less number of sites than GSM900
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Rural Deployment Strategy - 2

Provide full range of ubiquitous 3G services and augment capacity

One-on-one
overlay

UMTS2100 UMTS900

GSM900

Ubiquitous feature rich 3G services all across the network

Easy deployment with One-on-one overlay (over GSM900)
UMTS900 video service link budget is equal to that GSM900 voice
Cost efficient solution
More capacity than GSM900 with same number of sites, less number of
sites than 2100

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Urban Deployment Strategy
Improve in-door coverage and augment capacity

GSM Capacity
sites removed UMTS900

GSM900

UMTS2100

Improve indoor coverage, network performance and hence user

experience
Cost efficiently augment capacity
More capacity than GSM
Eliminate GSM capacity sites in dense urban areas
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UMTS900 Co-existence with GSM900

UMTS900 can co-exist with GSM900

Two possible configurations based on deployment strategy
Coordinated UMTS900 and GSM900 are collocated
Un-Coordinated - UMTS900 and GSM900 are not collocated
3GPP and CEPT have studied various co-existence scenarios and
provided recommendations
Coordinated
UMTS (macro) - GSM (macro), rural
Uncoordinated
UMTS (macro) - GSM (macro), urban
UMTS (macro) - GSM (macro), rural
UMTS (macro) - GSM (micro), urban
UMTS (macro) - GSM (pico), urban

Operators can reduce interference through intelligent spectrum

assignment frequency assignment and planning

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Coordinated Configuration
Carrier separation of 2.2 MHz or more is needed
3GPP estimates that a separation of 2.6MHz may be needed
Under worst case scenario - GSM/UMTS mutual interference only meets,
but not exceed, 3GPP minimum performance requirements
3GPP minimum performance specs are purposely relaxed to allow
product differentiation on performance vs. cost.

Qualcomms studies show that even with 2.2MHz of separation the

capacity loss is limited to 5% for UMTS (Macro) GSM (Macro)
coordinated scenario

WCDMA GSM

2.2 MHz

2.6 MHz
Sources: 1. Compatibility Study for UMTS Operating within the GSM 900 and GSM 1800 bands ECC/CEPT
2. Paper titled Frequency coordination between UMTS and GSM systems at 900 MHz submitted by Qualcomm and Huawei to
8th Annual IEEE International Symposium (PIMRC
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Uncoordinated Configuration

Carrier separation of 2.8 MHz or more is needed

3GPP recommends 2.8 MHz or more of separation for negligible capacity
loss for all Uncoordinated scenarios
Un-coordinate scenario might be unavoidable in Urban areas
GSM900 Micro/Pico Cells and Capacity Sites may not be overlaid
because of higher capacity provided by UMTS900

WCDMA GSM

2.8 MHz

Sources: Compatibility Study for UMTS Operating within the GSM 900 and GSM 1800 bands ECC/CEPT

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Interference Minimizing Techniques
Operators can employ few techniques to minimize interference
Sandwich type spectrum assignment to reduce interference between operators
Assign Non-BCCH carriers to frequencies next to UMTS spectrum

GSM GSM
WCDMA

Non-BCCH

BCCH

Deploy Macro cell sub-band between UMTS and Micro/Pico cell sub-band to
reduce impact on GSM Micro/Pico cells

GSM
WCDMA
Macro Cell Sub Band

Micro/Pico Cell Sub

Band

Source: Compatibility Study for UMTS Operating within

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Spectrum Reframing and Deployment
Considerations

Spectrum Refarming
Some of refarming techniques Incentivising upgrades, early
seeding, limiting new GSM additions etc.
Trading spectrum to get contiguous 5 MHz
Network deployment strategy
Separate/Combined Infrastructure/BTS/Antenna systems
Clear network access strategy
UMTS900 <-> UMTS2100
Optimized mobility
Limited transitions between technologies (UMTS/GSM)
Limited transition between bands/networks (UMTS900/UMTS2100/GSM)

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UMTS900 has Broad Industry Support

Standards Operators Vendors Regulators

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Standarization and Regulatory Support
Standardization
GSM900 bands are identified by ITU-R as part of IMT-2000 family
3GPP and ETSI have approved UMTS900 Technical Specifications
3GPP and CEPT (ECC) have provided recommendations for
UMTS900/GSM900 collocation
GSMA has formed a group (SMG) to co-ordinate harmonization of UMTS
spectrum across the world

There is significant support for UMTS900 from ECC member countries

ECC issued decision designating GSM900 bands for IMT-2000 in Dec 2006
Finland and Belgium, and Portugal are the first countries to adopt ECC decision
Regulators

France Spain
- UMTS900 licenses awarded in 2006 - Regulatory approval expected
Switzerland in 2007 and commercial in 2008
- ComCom (regulator) authorized use of UK
UMTS in 900MHz spectrum in March 2007 - Auctions expected in in 2H07
- Others to follow soon Germany, Ireland, Romania, Netherlands

United States, Australia, and /NewZealnd allows UMTS900 (850MHz

spectrum is technology agnostic )

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Operator Trials and Interests

Vodafone Portugal made the first 3G/UMTS voice, videocall and data calls in the 900
MHz frequency band in Portugal in Dec 2006. Indicated that as soon as it is possible
in technical and regulatory terms, they intend to use UMTS 900 technology on its
3G/UMTS network expansion.

Manx (O2 subsidiary) and ALU announced successful completion of

their first UMTS900 deployment (Trial) in March 2007
"UMTS 900 may help solve the 3G coverage issues in Europe, we hope to demonstrate
how UMTS 900 can complement deployments at 2100 MHz, improve coverage, lower
capital expenses and improve the customer's experience." - Dave Williams, CTO

"UMTS in the 900 MHz band is a complementary solution to existing 3G services that will
enable Orange to provide high speed wireless Internet to both rural and urban areas of our
different geographies," - Vivek Badrinath, EVP - Products, Technology and Innovation

We are impressed by the voice quality of the call, and the HSDPA user data transfer speed reached our
expectations. The WCDMA 900 MHz variant brings us an efficient solution, which could allow us to extend
our 3G services to rural areas cost-effectively, says Paul Corbel, Chief Technical Officer, SFR.

Telstra has commercially launched UMTS network on 850MHz in Australia

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Vendor Support

Alcatel-Lucent
ALU provided the systems for O2 (Manx) UMTS900 deployment/trial in UK
Nokia/Siemens
Nokias Flexi WCDMA BTS were used for SFR UMTS900 trails in France
Huawei
Huawei technologies has completed video phone and HSDPA 3.6 Mbps services
trials on a network in Europe and has indicated it plans to continue to conduct
multiple UMTS900 MHz field trials in Australia and Europe.
Nortel
Vodafone Spains UMTS900 trial used Nortel Infrastructure
Ericsson
Telstras commercial UMTS network (850 MHz) uses Ericssons infrastructure
Qualcomm
- All of Qualcomms UMTS chip sets will support UMTS900 from 2007

Most of the major UMTS infrastructure and device vendors

support UMTS900
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Executive Summary

UMTS900 combines superior performance of UMTS with

coverage benefits of 900MHz spectrum

UMTS900 provides good coverage in rural areas

UMTS900 improves in-door coverage and augments

capacity in urban areas

UMTS900 can co-exist with GSM900

UMTS900 has broad based industry support

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