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Maximizing Interoperator Efficiency in Mobile Multi-Service Networks Gary Miller Executive Director, Business Development How Complex is Today’s Mobile Environment? 3UK - AT&T Mobility – Alltel – ACS Wireless – ANCEL Uruguay – Appalachian Wireless - Africell Burundi - Africell Gambia - Africell Sierra Leone –Aircel -AIS -AKOS -AkTel -Albanian Mobile Communications - Algérie Télécom - Altaisvyaz - Altel - AM Wireless Uruguay - America Movil DR - America Movil Jamaica - America Movil Peru - America Movil PR - AMX Paraguay -Applifone -APUA -Areeba Afghanistan-AreebaCyprus -AsiacellCommunications -ASTCA -AtheerTel-Atlantic Wireless -Atlantique Cellulaire RCA T - Atlantique Telecom Cote GSM/3Gd'Ivoire - Babilon Mobile - –Baikalwestcom 860 - Bakcellnetworks - BashCell - Bashinformsvyaz - Batelco Bahrain – Belcel - Beeline- Bell Benin Communications - Benin Telecom - Benson Informatics Limited - Bhutan Telecom - BITEL - Blue Sky Communications – Bell Mobility – Bluegrass Cellular - B-mobile Communications - Botswana Telecom – Bouygues Telecom – Bug Tussel Wireless - Bryansk Cellular Networks - BSNL - BTC Total - Cable & Wireless Anguilla - Cable & Wireless Antigua & Barbuda - Cable & Wireless Barbados - Cable & Wireless BVI - Cable & Wireless Cayman Islands - Cable & Wireless Dominica - Cable & Wireless Europe - Cable & Wireless Falkland Islands - Cable & Wireless Grenada - Cable & Wireless Jamaica - Cable & Wireless Montserrat - Cable & Wireless St. Kitts & Nevis - Cable & Wireless St. Lucia - Cable & Wireless St. Vincents & Grenadines - Cable & Wireless Turks & Caicos - CaboCDMA/3G Verde Telecom - Cadcomms -– Cambodia 378 GSM - Cambodianetworks Shinawatra - Caribbean Cellular Telephone – CCT Communications - Caprock Cellular – Carolina West Wireless - CariGlobe – Catel - CCT Total – CTC Telecom - Cell C Total - Cellcom Guinée - Cellcom Israel - Cellcom Liberia - Cellplus Mobile Communications - Cellular Communications of Bashkortostan - Cellular Communications of Birobidzhan - Cellular Communications of Mordovia – Cellular One – Cellular South - Celtel Burkina Faso - Celtel Chad -Celtel DRC - Celtel Gabon -CeltelHonduras -CeltelKenya -CeltelMadagascar -CeltelMalawi -CeltelNiger -CeltelNigeria -CeltelSierra Leone -CeltelTanzania - Celtel Uganda - Celtel Zambia - Centennial de Puerto Rico - Cherkessk Cellular Communications – China Mobile – China Unicom - Chinguitel - Chuvashia Mobile - Claro Chile – CMPak - Codotel - Colombia Movil - Comcel - Comium Côte d'Ivoire - Comium Gambia - Comium Liberia - Comium Sierra Leone - Comores Telecom - Comunicaciones Celulares Colombia - Comunicaciones Celulares Guatemala -Conecel-CorporaciónDigitel-Coscom-Cosmo Bulgaria Mobile -Cosmofon–Cosmote-CosmoteRomania -CSL New World -CTBC TelecomMobile -CTI Holdings -CTMIM - Dagestan Cellular Communications - Dalsvyaz - Datatel – Dhiraagu - Digicel Anguilla - Digicel Antigua & Barbuda - Digicel Aruba - Digicel BarVoicebados - Digicel Bermuda - Digicel Cayman Islands - Digicel Dominica -Digicel El Salvador - Digicel French Guiana - Digicel Haiti - Digicel NetherlandsVideoShare Antilles - Digicel Papua New Guinea - Digicel Samoa - Digicel St. Kitts & Nevis - Digicel St. Lucia - Digicel St. Vincent & Grenadines - Digicel Suriname - Digicel Tonga - Digicel Trinidad & Tobago - Digicel Turks & Caicos - Digicel Vanuatu - Digital Expansion - Digitel Mobile - DNA Comms - DNA Finland - DSTCom – DTAC - eAccess – E-Plus - East Caribbean Cellular – EDGE Wireless - ECMS - Econet Ezi-Cell Lesotho - Econet Wireless Burundi - Econet Wireless Kenya - Econet Wireless Zimbabwe - El Madar Telephone Company -Elisa -Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company -Emtel-EMTS -eNIC-E-Plus -Eritel - Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation - Etihad Etisalat Afghanistan - Etihad Etisalat Egypt - Etihad Etisalat Saudia Arabia - Etihad Etisalat UAE – ETL - EVN Telecom – Excelcomindo - Extelcom - FarEasTone - Faroese Telecom - FSM Telecommunications - FTML - G Telecom - Gabon Telecom - GamcelMobile - GETESA - GibralSMStar Telecom - Globacom Benin - Globe Telecom – Globecomm Systems - G-Mobile – Golis - GrameenPhone - GSM BiH - GSM Kazakhstan - Guam Telephone Authority - Guam Wireless Telephone Co - GuernseyLocation Airtel - Guyana Telephone & Telegraph - Hormuud Telecom Somalia - HPT Mostar – Hutchison 3G - Hutchison Hong Kong - HutchisonCommerce Indonesia - Hutchison Macau - Hutchison Sri Lanka - Hutchison-CAT Wireless - Iceland Telecom – iConnect - Indosat - Innovative Wireless - Intelfon El SalvadorMMS - Intelsur - Intercel Holdings - Intercellular Nigeria – InterDnestrCom - Investcom Guinée - iPCS (Sprint Affiliate) - Ipko Net - Irancell – IUSACELL, Ittissalat Al-Maghrib - Jersey Telecoms - Jersey Telenet – JMTS - Kabardino-Balkaria Cellular Communications - KALL (Vodafone Faroe Islands) - Kalmyk Cellular Communications - Kasapa - Katel - Kibris Telsim - KKTCell - K-Telecom – KPNSocial - KTF – KubTelecom - Kuwait Telecom Company - Lao Telecom - LAT – Leap Wireless - LibanCell - Libyana - Lonestar Communications Corporation - M.Teko - Magticom - Mahanagar Telephone Mauritius - Martelcom - 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Nationlink - Natrindo Telepon Seluler - Nawras - NEAT&T -Nepal Telecom -Net* One -Nextel ArgentinaMobile -Nextel Brazil -Nextel Chile -Nextel Mexico - Nextel Peru - Nizhegorodskaya Cellular Communications - Nordisk Mobiltelefon Norway - Nordisk Mobiltelefon Sverige - Norfolk Telecom - Nova - Novaya Telefonnaya Companiya - Núcleo–O2 -Oasis Telecom -Omantel-Onatel-One Touch -OPT -Optus -Orange Austria -Orange Botswana -Orange CameroonGaming -Orange Central African Republic - Orange Côte d'Ivoire -Orange Guinee-Orange Madagascar -Orange Mayotte -Orange Niger - Orange Poland - Orange SlovakPoC Republic - Orange Spain - Orange SwitzerlandVideo - Orascom Telecom Algeria - Orascom Telecom Tunisia - Oricel - Otecel - Outremer Telecom – OUI -Outremer Telecom La Reunion - Outremer Telecom Mayotte - P&T Luxembourg -P4 Total -Pacific Telecom - Pakcom - Palestine Cellular Communications - Pannon - PBTL – PCCW – Penza - Pelephone - PMCL - PNCC - Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa - PowerCallingcom - Prestel - ProMonte - ProxtelWireless -PTC -PTML -Q-TEL –Radiomovil–Revol-RCC Ingushetia -RCS&RDS -Reliance Telecom -RIC Total –Rogers Wireless -Rostov CDMA - Rubicon Wireless Communications – RusSDO – RwandaTel – Safaricom - Sahelcom Total - SamoaTel – SaskTel – Saudi Telecom – SK Telecom - Sampoerna (STI) – Sagebrush Cellular - Saratov-Mobile Source:-Scancom-SCO Global Mobile -Sentel-Sercomde Suppliers Honduras Association -SercomtelCelular-Setel–SFR GSM/3G Market Intelligence -Sheba Telecom -Si.mobil-SkyLink-Smart Communications -Smart Telecom - SMTC – Sprint/Nextel - Somafone - Sonaecom Servicos Comunicacoes - Sonatel-Mobiles – Sonofon - Sotel-Astrakhan - Sotel-Chuvashia - Sotelgui - SOTELMA -Spacetel-SpacetelBenin -Spice Nepal -Spice Telecom -SRR Mayotte -SRR Reunion -Starcomms-StarHub-STeK–Sudatel-Supercell-SvenskaUMTS-Nät-SwisscomMobile -Swisscom Mobile Liechtenstein - 2 Syriatel–Tata –TNZ -Taiwan Mobile Company -TashiInfocomm-TCI -TDC Mobil -TDC Switzerland -Telcel–Telefonica-TelCel-Telcom-Tele2 Croatia - Tele2 Estonia - Tele2 Annual Wireless Data Revenues Are Up 39% $35,000,000 $32,321,149 $30,000,000 $25,000,000 $23,228,529 $20,000,000 $15,216,735 Thousands $15,000,000 $10,000,000 $8,581,783 $4,604,795 $5,000,000 $1,858,064 $- 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Source: CTIA 2009 Semi-Annual Wireless Survey 3 620,177,649,358 384,966,493,778 SMS Traffic Growth 215,559,498,838 4 146,990,032,334 Reported Six-Month Text Traffic Grows 188% Year-Over-Year 93,827,072,943 64,821,473,855 9,304,980,514 48,664,220,098 Traffic Measures – Six-Month MMS 32,544,005,669 Traffic 24,714,952,924 Reported six-month MMS traffic up 166%5,627,905,174 year over year Dec-04 Jun-05 Dec-05 Jun-06 Dec-06 Jun-07 Dec-07 Jun-08 Dec-08 Reported six-monthMMS Traffic SMSGrowth traffic up 188% year over year 3,494,686,474 2,605,243,207 1,588,444,746 1,138,563,387 848,021,269 284,754,607 Jun-05 Dec-05 Jun-06 Dec-06 Jun-07 Dec-07 Jun-08 Dec-08 Source: CTIA 2009 Semi-Annual Wireless Survey Mobile Data Peering Evolution vs. Signaling P CC /S Operator B Upside SIP 7 Downside SS Operator B • One network SIGTRAN PSTN •• Multiple One contract networks TDM Operator A RTP IPX •• Multiple New IP contractsservices Operator A Data Roaming • No new IP Dat • Quick service IPX a R MMS oaming servicesinterconnect – MMS GRX SMS Operator C • Longpacket time voice, to video GRX/CRX S Operator C market of new MS share/calling, PoC, servicesIM
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