BE PREPARED FOR THE EVOLUTION OF SMS & VOICE

David O’Byrne GSMA

DRAFT H 23rd August 2016 What's it all about

Voice and SMS has changed. Advanced Communications provides a simple, CATALYST fluid way to connect to anyone, anywhere. Google Universal Profile client soon to be available for all SUBSCRIBERS Android devices. Say why you are calling before the call starts. Then chat. 22.6m OPEN PLATFORM Share pictures, location or switch to video. Subscribers to RCS services. Everything developers need Turn a plain call into a multimedia experience. to build and deploy advance communications applications.

AN EASIER WORLD NETWORKS NETWORK ANDROID DEVICES 2020 Any Universal Profile 507 1.4bn Developer works in a simple 6.7 billion SMS subscribers. Universal Profile. 1.4B Users. OEM standard way. Operator.

GLOBAL OPERATORS, OEMS, OS PROVIDERS AND GSMA ALIGN BEHIND RICH COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES.

2 Wide Industry Support

OPERATORS HANDSET The Universal Profile is a 48 MANUFACTURERS 10 GSMA led initiative backed by 60+ global operators and Operators - Leading handset manufacturers AIS, América Móvil, Axiata Group, Beeline, Bell (endorsement by 9 of the top 10 handset manufacturers. Mobility, Bharti Airtel Ltd, AIS, América Móvil, manufactures). Alcatel, , General Mobile, Axiata Group, Beeline, Bell Mobility, Bharti HTC, , Airtel Ltd, China Mobile, China Telecom, Ltd., LG Electronics, /, China Unicom, Claro Brazil, Claro Colombia, Electronics and ZTE. Deutsche Telekom, Etisalat, Globe Telecom, Indosat Ooredoo, KPN, M1, Millicom, Megafon, MTS, MTN, Optus, Orange, OS Personal Argentina, Personal Paraguay, PLAY, Reliance , Rogers Communications, Singtel, PROVIDERS 2 Smart Communications, Sprint, StarHub, 2 OS providers (two of the top three Telenor Group, Telcel Mexico, Tele2 Russia, Mobile Operating System providers). TeliaSonera, Telkomsel, Telstra,TIM, Telus Google and . Turkcell, T-Mobile US, VimpelCom, and IP COMMUNICATIONS LAUNCHES Vodafone. INTERCONNECTIONS

3 Industry collaboration

UNIVERSAL PROFILE DELIVERING SPECIFICATION SIGNUP RCS DEPLOYED

Global Operators 48 156 Simplicity OPERATORS LAUNCHED. DEVICES. Common feature set, and configuration. 56 & manufacturers. 35 22.6m UNIVERSAL PROFILE CLIENT COUNTIRES. SUBSCRIBERS. One Common Experience Across all devices and operators More Choice: - OEM clients. worldwide. Clients on open market devices. GSMA INITIATIVE

Reduced Time OPERATOR COMMUNITY to market and interoperability testing. LTE LAUNCED BY IN REACHING GSMA Accreditation 507 169 51% delivering confidence to mobile network OPERATORS. COUNTRIES. OF POUPLATION. operators and developers. Universal Profile - The big picture

Universal Profile v1.0 (RCC.61 v3) GOAL #1 Universal Profile 1.0 Technical Specifications (RCC.07 v7) Unified messaging experience1 Other supporting docs – RCC.14, RCC. 16 etc

Universal Profile v1.1 (RCC.61 v4 TBC) GOAL #2 Technical Specifications (RCC.07 v8) Universal Profile v1.1 Enabling innovation APIs, Plug ins, terminal 2 Future Evolution GOAL #3 Chabots, more APIs, partnering with third parties The future of messaging Leveraging Monetization opportunities 3 Next steps?

DRIVING SCALE OPERATORS OEMs

Global clients Already deployed plan for transition Participate in the GSMA Common network implementations to Universal Profile after Q1 2017 specification development Simplified Interconnect Launching prior to Q1 2017 deploy a Begin to develop Universal Profile Standard Contract mature profile with a minimal transition to devices Universal Profile Preparing to launch after Q1 2017 deploy Universal Profile.

Universal profile specification v1.0 Q4 2016*

Universal profile specification v1.1 Q1 2017*

* expected Network 2020 Programme Shaping the next generation in mobile