Spectrum for Mobile Broadband

Mobile Broadband: The path to 5G ITU/SPBPU SEMINAR FOR CIS AND EUROPE “DEVELOPMENT OF THE MODERN RADIOCOMMUNICATION ECOSYSTEMS” 6-8 June 2018, St. Petersburg

Andy Hudson – Head of Policy About the GSMA

2 Relentless growth in mobile data

Data usage continues to grow

. Consumers appetite for data, especially video still on the rise

. Millions of “things” also expected to add to mobile data traffic

. Some estimations suggest that capacity of mobile networks will need to grow by a factor of 1,000,000 Graphics: GSMA | Source: Cisco VNI 2017

3 …and IoT is gaining momentum

2016 GROWTH 2025

Asia Pacific 2.3bn 8.7 11.0bn

North America 1.6bn 4.2 5.9bn

Europe 1.5bn 3.5 4.9bn

Latin America 0.4bn 0.9 1.3bn

Middle East & North Africa 0.3bn 0.8 1.1bn

CIS 0.2bn 0.5 0.7bn

Sub-Saharan Africa 0.1bn 0.3 0.3bn

Source: GSMA Intelligence

4 Mobile technology: Ideal solution for low power wide area (LPWA)

CHOICE OF KEY FEATURES KEY BENEFITS TECHNOLOGIES

Low Cost Module 3GPP Standards LTE-M

Better Coverage Global Coverage NB-IoT

Long Battery Life Secure

Low Data Needs Scalable

2-Way Communication

5 Mobile IoT Popular Applications

UTILITIES LOGISTIC INDUSTRIAL SMART CITIES Logistic Tracking Smart screwdriver Smart Grid Smart Lighting Smart shelving Pallet Tracking Waste Management Power Meters Safety shoes Smart Parking Water Meters Electric car charging station Smart Gas AGRICULTURE SMART BUILDINGSmart Bikes & ENVIRONMENT CONSUMER IoT button Alarms Water quality General purpose tracker Smoke detectors Compost monitoring Safety jackets Flood detectors Irrigation monitoring Wearable Environmental monitoring Pet tracker Live stock monitoring MIoT Global Coverage

48 Mobile IoT Commercial Launches LTE-M NB-IoT Both LTE-M and NB-IoT Five mobile industry goals with 5G

8 Mobile operators are getting ready for 5G

South Korea – KT has China – China Mobile plans to announced it will launch deploy 10,000 base stations by 2020 commercial services in 2019

Europe – in July 2016, the major Japan – NTT DoCoMo has operators published a 5G manifesto, announced it will launch which indicated a target of launching commercial services in 2020 5G in at least one city in each of the member states by 2020

US – operators have been testing and developing fixed-wireless solutions Middle East – Etisalat has indicated that using mmW technologies, and are it will launch a nationwide 5G network in expected to be among the first to time for Expo 2020 in the UAE launch commercial services Source: GSMA Intelligence

9 5G around the World

10 Investment cycle for 5G

“Intra-generation” evolution more significant than generational leap

11 Evolution or Revolution?

5G and 4G are expected to work together

. 3GPP specified in December 2017 a new 5G

access network (NR) and by June 2018 will 4G 4G Core 5G 5G Core specify a new 5G core network (5GC)

. Operators will have several alternatives for Controlplane introducing these two new components

? alongside their existing 4G infrastructure 4G 4G Radio 5G 5G Radio consisting of 4G radio (LTE) and 4G core (EPC)

User User plane . The “hybrid” configurations using both 5G and 4G elements are referred to as non- standalone

12 Mobile technologies that will impact 5G

Antenna Densification New Radio Virtualisation Massive Connectivity

Massive MIMO Self backhauling Below 1 GHz: Virtualisation Optimisation for Active Antenna Energy for IoT and NFV and SDN to millions of Multiple antenna Efficiency mobile adapt the network connected devices models Adapts to broadband Service enabler Multi-year battery Long range transport 1 GHz to 6 GHz: for network slicing life deep coverage requirements for mobile Massive broadband connectivity Above 6 GHz: extreme mobile broadband

13 Coverage comparison

Notes RAT/Band Illustrative coverage comparison Scenario

Local coverage . LTE not suited for mmWave deployment > 6 GHz NR mmWave NR Peak data rate: 10Gbps . Higher propagation loss at 3.5GHz NR 3.5GHz NR Reuse of 1800 grid compensated by mMIMO possible for Downlink < 6 GHz . Massive MIMO LTE 1800 LTE Peak data rate: 1Gbps . Beamforming NR 700MHz NR Deep indoor penetration < 1 GHz LTE . Limited availability of spectrum below LTE 800 MHz Peak data rate: 100Mbps 1GHz limits performance

NR gNodeB LTE eNodeB

14 5G requires significant amounts of spectrum

. Significant new globally harmonised mobile spectrum is needed to ensure 5G services meet future expectations and deliver on the full range of potential capabilities

. Spectrum blocks per operator need to be sufficiently wide to allow the data throughput needed for 5G • ~ 50 to 100 MHz in mid-band spectrum • ~ 500 MHz to 1 GHz in mmWave spectrum

15 5G spectrum – an international summary

. The below 1 GHz range will be 600 MHz characterised by reframing old GSM/LTE frequencies like the 900/800/700 and potentially the new 700 MHz 600 MHz in some markets

. The 1 GHz – 6 GHz range will initially 3.5 GHz look predominantly at the C-Band

. Above 6 GHz frequencies are more 26 GHz fragmented globally in the 26 GHz and the 28 GHz bands, but tuning ranges could help to bridge the gap initially 28 GHz

16 WRC-19 AI 1.13 bands above 24 GHz

Millimetre wave spectrum is essential for the future of 5G

17 The road to success in four steps

18 References: 5G

19 References: WRC-19

https://www.gsma.com/spectrum/wrc-series