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CDMA450 Regulatory Update

Safwan ZaheerSafwan ZaheerChairman, RSWG Chairman, RSWG –– IA450 IA450

zaheerzaheer@lucent.com@lucent.com+1-973-386-4317+1-973-386-4317

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Why deploy at 450MHz band in AsiaWhy deploy at 450MHz band in Asia

• A growing interest globally for:– Meeting the Universal Service Obligations– Providing connectivity to the rural and/or underserved areas– Provide E-learning or E-distance learning services to the underserved

areas– Provide public safety and national security services

A CDMA450 network can support multiple applications• Many countries have already allocated the 450 MHz band for mobile

services– The Nordic countries, Eastern/Western Europe, Central America, Asia

Pacific, Central Asia, Russia, and Africa.• When regulators allocate 450 MHz spectrum for cellular applications:

– New operators enter into the marketplace– An existing operator that is running out of capacity on its existing

networks can increase the capacity of its network by deploying systems inthe 450 MHz band.

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Asian consumers can benefit fromAsian consumers can benefit fromCDMA450CDMA450

• Asian consumers stand to benefit a great deal from CDMA450.• The CDMA450 network can provide mobility, limited mobility, and

fixed wireless access services to consumers. The same network cansimultaneous provide voice, high-speed data, and VoIP services.

• Governments recognize that new advances in wireless technologiesoffering high-speed portable and mobile connectivity can help bridgethe widening digital divide.

• CDMA450 cost advantages are of the greatest in rural areas whereaffordable access to communications is critical

• Deploying a CDMA450 system enables operators to significantlyreduce their expenses (both CAPEX and OPEX) since fewer basestations are needed to cover a given area providing larger cell sizes.

• The cost reduction can then be transferred to end user• It’s a win-win situation for governments, operators, and consumers !

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CDMA450 Deployments in AsiaCDMA450 Deployments in Asia

• Commercial CDMA450 networks have been deployed in both the rural andurban areas by operators in Cambodia, China (Tibet), Indonesia, Laos,Pakistan, Thailand, and Vietnam

• In the Philippines CDMA operations have been licensed in the 450–470 MHzband and commercial deployments are planned for this year.

• These networks are addressing a range of user needs:– From high speed data to basic voice,– From full mobility to wireless local loop replacement of fixed telephony

• Operators have found deploying a CDMA450 system cheaper and faster thandeploying a copper and other fixed line systems

• CDMA450, while capable of providing high speed mobile data, is also beingused to roll out voice service to rural residential areas

• Notwithstanding the suitability of CDMA450 for rural areas, CDMA450 whendeployed in dense urban areas provides significant benefits to the operatorsand consumers.

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CDMA450 Worldwide Deployments CDMA450 Worldwide Deployments –– Asia (Pacific Asia (Pacificand Central)and Central)

N/ACommercialAztrank LLC & CatelAzerbaijan

HuaweiCommercialTOTThailand

HuaweiCommercialSaudi TelecomSaudi Arabia

EricssonTrialJSC ALTELKazakhstan

ZTECommercialWinLineKyrgyzstan

HuaweiCommercialCambodia ShinawatraCambodia

HuaweiCommercialChina TelecomChina (Tibet)

HuaweiCommercialSTIIndonesia

HuaweiCommercialLao TelecomLaos

Huawei/Lucent/ZTEPre-commercialEV/VP TelecomVietnam

Huawei/LucentCommercialJSC UzbektelecomUzbekistan

HuaweiDeployingMCTTurkmenistan

ZTECommercialTajikistan TelecomTajikistan

Huawei/LucentCommercialSeveral OperatorsPakistan

VENDORSTATUSOPERATORCOUNTRY

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CDMA450 Worldwide Deployments CDMA450 Worldwide Deployments –– Europe and CIS Region Europe and CIS Region

Huawei/ ZTECommercialWinLineKrygyzstan

Lucent/ HuaweiCommercialTelecom Inc.Uzbekistan

N/APre-commercialNordisk MobiltelefonSweden

Huawei/Lucent/Nortel/ZTE

Commercial/Pre-commercial

Skylink (64 carriers)Kuzbass Cellular

Communications (KCC)Volga Telecom

RTCSSB

UralSvyazInform

Russia

Pre-commercialMoldtelecomMoldova

HuaweiCommercialAztrankAzerbaijan

HuaweiCommercialRadiomovelPortugal

Lucent/HuaweiTrialsCenterelPoland

ZTEDeployingNordisk MobiltelefonNorway

NortelCommercialTelecom BaltijaLatvia

HuaweiCommercialIberiatelGeorgia

NortelCommercialEurotelCzech Rep

ZTETrialBTCBulgaria

HuaweiCommercialBelcelBelarus

N/APre-commercial/PAMR systemDolphin TelecommunicationsGermany

LucentCommercialTelemobile/ZappRomania

VENDORSTATUSOPERATORCOUNTRY

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CDMA450 Worldwide Deployments CDMA450 Worldwide Deployments –– Africa Africa

N/ACommercialBenson OnlineTanzania

N/ACommercialTelecom KenyaKenya

N/ACommercialMobitel SudanSudan

N/ACommercialTelmaMadagasgar

HuaweiCommercialUganda telecomUganda

HuaweiTrialTelecom NamibiaNamibia

InvestigatingNigeria

Huawei/ZTECommercialTDMMozambique

HuaweiTrialAngola TelecomAngola

HuaweiPre-CommercialTogo TelecomTogo

ZTETrialSotelmaMali

HuaweiCommercialCamtelCameroon

HuaweiCommercialEthiopian

TelecommunicationsCorporation

Ethiopia

VENDORSTATUSOPERATORCOUNTRY

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CDMA450 Worldwide Deployments CDMA450 Worldwide Deployments –– Americas Americas

Band AuthorizedMexico,Ecuador

InvestigatingHondurasN/ATrialCVG TelecomVenezuelaZTEPre-commercialValtronPeruZTETrialUnicelBrazil

HuaweiTrialTelefónica dePerúPeru

HuaweiPre-commercialCoTeCalArgentinaLucentTrialAnatelBrazil

Huawei/ZTETrial/DemoCotecalArgentinaVENDORSTATUSOPERATORCOUNTRY

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ITU and APT Activities

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IMT-2000 BackgroundIMT-2000 Background

• ITU adopted an industry standard for 3G wireless networks called IMT-2000.This family of standards include five distinct radio interfaces, the majority ofwhich are based on CDMA technology

• ITU has so far identified the following frequency bands for use byadministrations wishing to implement IMT-2000:

– 806-960 MHz– 1710-2025 MHz– 2110-2200 MHz– 2500-2690 MHz

• ITU has been careful to ensure that each of the five IMT-2000 technologies canbe deployed in each of the four IMT-2000 frequency bands – TechnologyNeutrality

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ITU World Radio Conference 2003ITU World Radio Conference 2003BackgroundBackground

• World Radio Conference 2003 (WRC-03) approved plans for the futuredevelopment of IMT-2000, and created a new agenda item on IMT-2000 forWRC-07:

– Agenda Item 1.4 states “To consider frequency-related matters for the futuredevelopment of IMT-2000 and systems beyond IMT-2000 taking into account theresults of ITU-R studies in accordance with Resolution 228”

• WRC-03 invited further studies on the lower frequency bands for IMT-2000– Resolution 228 invites ITU-R “to conduct regulatory and technical studies on the

usage of frequencies below those identified for IMT-2000 in No. 5.317A for thefuture development if IMT-2000 and systems beyond IMT-2000.”

• Several developing countries requested language to be included in the WRC-03report encouraging the Conference to consider the bands below 600 MHz forIMT-2000 at WRC-07.

• It is expected that developing countries will coordinate their efforts bysubmitting appropriate inputs to the ITU-R WP8F and WRC-07, to ensurethat the 450-470 MHz band is considered for IMT-2000 identification at WRC-07.

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ITU-R WP8F UpdateITU-R WP8F Update

• ITU-R WP8F recently developed “IMT-Advanced” as the name for“systems beyond IMT-2000”. The term “IMT” is now used as a wholefor “IMT-2000, future enhancements to IMT-2000, and systemsbeyond IMT-2000”.

• ITU-R WP8F is developing Report ITU-R M.[IMT.CANDI] that isexpected to be finalized at the August 2006 meeting.

– IMT.CANDI evaluates suitable frequency bands for the futuredevelopment of IMT (IMT-2000 and IMT-Advanced).

– Good News: In the current draft, 450-470MHz is listed as a candidate forIMT.

• ITU-R WP8F is preparing draft text on Agenda Item 1.4, which willreflect their findings on the use of various bands and recommendcertain bands for consideration as IMT at WRC-07.

– ITU-R WP8F is still accepting input contributions from administrationson Agenda Item 1.4

• There is significant interest from many countries to identify the 450-470MHz band as IMT for WRC-07.

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APG UpdateAPG Update

• Asia-Pacific Telecommunity (APT) is the regulatory forum for the Asia region(ITU Region 3).

• APT Preparatory Group (APG) harmonizes the views of the APT membersand develops common proposals for submission to the ITU.

• Working Party 1 (WP1) within the APG is responsible for developing APTviews on Agenda item 1.4

• At the last APG meeting in Malaysia, WP1 developed preliminary APT viewson Agenda Item 1.4

– The 450-470MHz bands is not yet listed in the APT preliminary views.– However, suitable language in support of lower bands (below 1GHz) is present in

the draft:“Identification of frequency bands for future development of IMT-2000 and IMT-Advancedshould take into account various elements referred to in Resolution 228 (Rev. WRC-03). Cost-effective coverage extension of IMT-2000 services into regional and rural areas is an importantaspect of Resolution 228 (Rev.WRC-03) considerations and, in this respect, some APTadministrations support the new identification of bands below 1 GHz that are already allocatedto the Mobile Service, in addition to those already identified for IMT-2000 based on the studiesreferred to in 4) paragraph above. In this regard, particular attention should be given to therecognizing j) of Resolution 228(REV.WRC-03) in the frequency band 470-862 MHz heavilyused and under planning by RRC-06, particularly in Region 1.”

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CEPT UpdateCEPT Update

• The European Conference of Postal and TelecommunicationsAdministrations, CEPT, is the regulatory forum of Europe (ITURegion 1).

• Within CEPT, ECC Project Team 1 (PT1), provides recommendationsto the ITU on the future use of spectrum for IMT and developsappropriate ECC decisions.

• In Europe the 450-470MHz band, in addition to 410-430MHz and 870-876/ 915-921MHz, is harmonized for Public Mobile Radio (PMR) andPublic Access Mobile Radio (PAMR) systems, including WidebandPAMR systems (includes CDMA450).

• The preliminary CEPT view for bands below 1GHz, under AgendaItem 1.4, is that it does not recommend the identification of the 450-470MHz band as IMT.

• The CEPT administrations, who have deployed CDMA450, still havean opportunity to enlist the 450-470MHz band as a candidate for IMTin the CEPT view on Agenda Item 1.4

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CITEL UpdateCITEL Update

• The Inter-American Telecommunication Commission, CITEL, is theregulatory forum of the Americas region (ITU Region 2).

• PCC-II, within CITEL, is responsible for coordinating andharmonizing standards related to the spectrum use by radio services,including broadcasting.

• CITEL recently approved the Recommendation PCC.II/REC. 10 (V-05)on the “Use of the 410-430 MHz and 450- 470 MHz bands for fixedand mobile services for digital communication particularly in lowpopulation density areas”

• A few CITEL members have provided positive response on the use of450-470MHz in response to the Agenda Item 1.4 of WRC-07.

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Africa UpdateAfrica Update

• There has been a long standing interest from a number of Africancountries in the use of the 450MHz band for IMT systems, led byCameroon.

• It is expected that Cameroon may lead an initiative within the AfricanTelecommunication Union to seek regional harmonization of the 450-470MHz band.

– Cameroon is also hosting the next ITU-R WP8F meeting in January 2007.• A number of CDMA450 licenses has already been issued in some

countries and commercial trials are underway in a few other countries.• Cameroon has also provided a positive response on the use of 450-

470MHz band in response to Agenda Item 1.4 of WRC-07.

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CDMA450 Industry GroupCDMA450 Industry Group

• The CDMA450 Industry Group is collaborating to promote regional use andharmonization of the 450 - 470 MHz band for wireless mobile and fixed applicationservices.

• Participants include (alphabetically): Huawei, Lucent Technologies, Nortel,QUALCOMM, ZTE, CDMA Development Group, and the IA450

• Goals of the CDMA450 Industry Group:– Present to the administrations the benefits of deploying wireless mobile and fixed

communication systems in the 450-470MHz frequency bands.– Encourage administrations to domestically allocate 450-470 MHz band to provide

mobile and fixed services to the rural and underserved regions using the IMTtechnologies (CDMA450).

– Enlist support from the administrations to identify the 450 - 470 MHz band forIMT at the ITU World Radio Conference in 2007 (WRC-07).

– Encourage administrations to submit input documents to ITU-R WP-8F, APG,CITEL, CEPT, and WRC-07 groups proposing to identify the 450-470MHz bandfor IMT.

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Benefits of ITU Identification ofBenefits of ITU Identification of450-470 MHz band as IMT450-470 MHz band as IMT

The identification of 450-470MHz band as IMT would facilitate thefollowing:

• Economies of scale will drive reduced prices for Infrastructure andHandsets

• Greater harmonization of frequency usage among different countriesand regions of the world

• Greater acceptance by administrations to use the frequency band forCDMA450 networks

• Strengthen development and growth of the CDMA450 market• 450–470 MHz is the only band in which commercial IMT-2000

technologies are being deployed that is not yet identified by the ITU asan IMT-2000 band.

– All other frequency bands where IMT-2000 or 3G networks are beingdeployed (e.g., 806-960 MHz, 1710-2025 MHz, 2110-2200 MHz, 2500-2690MHz) have already been identified by the ITU as IMT-2000 bands.

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RSWG RecommendationsRSWG Recommendations

• Administrations that have deployed or plan to deploy CDMA450 networks have theopportunity to provide support to the industry within the ITU-R WP8F, APG, CITEL,CEPT, and WRC-07.

• Proposals identifying the Advantages of the 450-470MHz band are urgently needed forthe upcoming ITU-R WP8F meeting in Denver (August 2006)

• Individual contributions to the next APG meeting in Thailand (January 2007) proposingto identify the 450-470MHz band as IMT are needed.

– The proposal would highlight the need to explicitly reflect the 450-470MHz band range in theAPT Preliminary Views section of the WP1 report.

– Excellent opportunity to propose a common APT proposal for identification of the 450 – 470MHz band for the future development of IMT

– APT administrations, such as Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Pakistan, Philippines, Thailand, andVietnam may have interest in proposing the same to the APG

• Similar contributions, by the relevant administrations, to the upcoming CEPT andCITEL meetings are needed.

– Next CEPT meeting is in Norway, Oslo (June 27-29)– Next CITEL PCC-II meeting is in Peru (June 20-23)

• The RSWG, in cooperation with the CDMA450 Industry, group is willing to assist andwork with the operators and administrations on preparing contributions to the ITU andother regional regulatory bodies.

• I encourage everyone to be an active participant of the IA450 RSWG!

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