Best use of wifi MEO Product/Service: MEO Wifi ENTRY SYNOPSIS: The Sudoeste Festival is the most important summer festival in Portugal. More than 200.000 festival- goers and 30.000 campers going to the “Herdade da Casa Branca” to spent more than 5 days listening live music. In order to promote the brand Meo and give new experiences to the festival- goers Meo deployed an WiFi solution to cover all the festival and Apps tailored to the festival-goers. More than 25% of this users will connect to the WiFi. The consumption data will exceeded more than 5 TB. With this solution we can offload 4G data and give a better service. MAIN ENTRY: 1.1 Scope The Southwest Festival “Festival Sudoeste” is a summer festival held in Portugal. It take place in the Herdade da Casa Branca, at Zambujeira do Mar (Odemira) in Alentejo. Over the years it was visited by more than one million people. It takes place at the beginning of August. During the several festival’ editions the organization has made available to the public various facilities such as camping, showers, bathrooms; free parking during the week of the festival, ATMs, emergency medical help 24 hours a day, food area, tickets, free shuttles to the nearest beach (Zambujeira do Mar). The campsite also has a water channel in which campers can have a shower. The 2015 edition premiered free Wi-Fi in all the festival grounds. The Festival Sudoeste is divided in two distinct areas: • Fair - where stages are mounted for concerts and various tents of sponsors and some amusement. • Camping - is free for all those who purchase the ticket for all days of the festival. It is planned for this year the presence of about 197,000 festival-goers and 30,000 campers. About 50 thousand people connect to the MEO Wi-Fi network, registering a consumption data that exceeds Please return your completed form to [email protected] by Friday 25th September. Best use of wifi 5 TB.. The enclosure has an approximate area of 35 hectares. 1.2 Solution Description 1.2.1 Wireless Infrastructure 1.2.1.1Purpose Implementation of a high-density coverage design, with wireless features Wi-Fi dual band, with centralized control, interconnection with the Core MEO Wi-Fi for free internet access. This system should allow the collection of traffic statistics processed by time and number of users per radio band and terminal type. The areas of Wi-Fi coverage project should include the following areas of the Fair: 1.2.1.2Technical Specifications The project was scaled to the bands 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz frequency, the IEEE 802.11 a / b / g / n bandwidth of 20 MHz and 40 MHz. For 802.11n supported features and interoperability with the 802.11a / b / g It was specified. 1.2.1.3 Supported Terminals The project support the following types of terminals: laptops, tablets and smartphones of any Operating System currently available. 1.2.1.4 Example of supported applications General public: video, email and internet access; Private network: video, VoIP, POS, ticketing, printers, AppS MEO Cloud, Meo Sudoeste e Meo Music. 1.2.2Sizing The project should be sized in order to (with a maximum number of users) allow a minimum bandwidth of 500kbps per active user. Presuming an event at full capacity, some reasonable numbers for the planning phase should be based on the following table: % captation Nº of customers/day Maximum capacity 100% 50.000 Participants with WI FI devices 70% 35.000 Network-connected devices 80% 28.000 Please return your completed form to [email protected] by Friday 25th September. Best use of wifi Devices on at the same time 30% 8.400 Supporting documents: http://awards.telecoms.com/files/gravity_forms/73- f52155fa0e99d2674b01ef147b37fd42/2015/08/MEO_WiFi-MeoSudoeste.pdf Please return your completed form to [email protected] by Friday 25th September. Best use of wifi Nelson Bostock Communication Product/Service: Wifi Calling from EE ENTRY SYNOPSIS: In April 2015, EE became the first UK MNO – and the first in Europe – to launch an in-built WiFi Calling service. WiFi Calling allows users to make and receive calls and texts via their phone’s native UI with just a WiFi connection. The service has the potential to connect millions of people across the UK, and massively expand the coverage reach of EE, from rural homes to urban basement flats. 25,000 people were concurrently using EE’s WiFi Calling service just 14 hours after the service went live, and there are now more than 1.5 million regular users. MAIN ENTRY: BACKGROUND EE’s network progress has been an incredible journey in a relatively short space of time. We have the fastest 4G uptake in Europe, a world-leading dropped call rate and a network that is consistently named number one by a host of independent organisations (including Ofcom and RootMetrics). However, through extensive research of our customer base we can see that indoor voice coverage is the thing that drives the most frustration. Research carried out by ICM on behalf of EE in March 2015 found almost one in ten people have one room or more in their home where they have no mobile connectivity, and this increases to 15 percent for those living in rural and semi-rural areas. There is a real need for being able to make calls over WiFi, but existing VoIP services are not reliable enough, are not user-friendly, relying as they do on customers using a separate app to make calls. WiFi Calling – one of many major innovations that we’ve invested in over the last three years – is the answer. WHAT IS WiFi CALLING Please return your completed form to [email protected] by Friday 25th September. Best use of wifi EE was the first – and as of today only – UK MNO to launch a native Voice-over-WiFi service to its customers. EE’s WiFi Calling allows customers to use a wide range of smartphones to make phone calls and send text messages in places where there isn’t a mobile signal but there is WiFi connectivity. It means we can provide voice coverage to anywhere with 2Mbps broadband connectivity – whether from a rural home, urban basement apartment or tube station platform. The carrier grade service allows people to make calls with a higher quality and greater degree of reliability than unmanaged VoIP services, from their home, office, corporate or public WiFi connection. And calls can be made through the phone’s native dialler, and SMSs sent and received through the SMS button, with no need to rely on an app or share messages only with a closed user group. OTT services – including the likes of WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and even iMessage – are innovative and an impactful way of allowing customers to use WiFi for an SMS-like service, but they are inherently closed user groups. WiFi Calling gets around that by allowing users to message anyone, on any device. LAUNCH WiFi Calling from EE was first mentioned in the Apple Keynote in September 2014, as we had worked closely with Apple to develop the capability. Our close work with Apple, as well as a range of Android device manufacturers, enabled us to launch the service ahead of any other MNO and with a dropped call and call success rate in line with our core macro network. We launched first to iPhone users via the iOS 8.3 update, and then to Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge shortly afterwards. In fact, despite Samsung being scheduled to be the first to launch the service with EE, the strength of media coverage following the announcement led to Apple bringing their iOS update forward in order to pip their competitor to the post. The service is now available on nine smartphones across the EE range, with more to come in 2015 including the EE own brand ‘Harrier’ range, making the service accessible at the low end of the market. RESULTS Some key results, just four months after launch, include: • More than 1.5 million customers regularly using the WiFi Calling service Please return your completed form to [email protected] by Friday 25th September. Best use of wifi • 25,000 people concurrently used EE’s WiFi Calling 14 hours after PR launch • 9 devices already supporting WiFi Calling on the EE network Please return your completed form to [email protected] by Friday 25th September. Best use of wifi Aptilo Network AB Product/Service: Aptilo SMP Wi-Fi Calling ENTRY SYNOPSIS: Aptilo SMP Wi-Fi Calling™ is an advanced vendor-agnostic 3GPP AAA system to enable carrier-class, next-generation Wi-Fi Calling. It goes beyond the standard functionality of a 3GPP AAA system (SIM authentication & authorization) with ground-breaking technology to enable Wi-Fi Calling in real- world deployments. Aptilo SMP Wi-Fi Calling allows mobile operators to apply intelligent policy decisions to the Wi-Fi Calling service, dynamically in real-time, based on information retrieved from multiple sources such as CRM and PCRF. Additionally it enables Wi-Fi Calling for non-SIM devices, in concert with a third- party app, enabling legacy devices and tablets for mass-market deployments. MAIN ENTRY: Wi-Fi Calling is truly a game-changer for mobile operators. Now they can use any Wi-Fi network, even the ones in people's homes, to reach subscribers with voice and text (SMS) services. The main reason for service providers to deploy Wi-Fi Calling is to obtain enhanced indoor coverage and more satisfied customers.