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Ulf pehrsson, vice president3 december, 2013

Mobile Broadband spectrum allocations: Ericsson perspective

Mobile Broadband spectrum allocations: Ericsson perspective

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Mobile subscriptions outlook 2010-2019

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population Coverage

› Around 90% of world´s population covered by WCDMA/HSPA in 2019

› LTE network deployments continue in all regions of the world, as LTE population coverage doubled in 2012 compared to 2011 (10% vs. 5%)

› More than 65% of world’s population covered by LTE in 2019

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Speed increase with LTED

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Source: Speedtest.net

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performance drives loyalty

› Addressing network performance has largest impact on customer loyalty

› Four times as effective as introducing loyalty rewards

› Network performance is the principal driver of loyalty to mobile operators, followed by value for money (correlated parameters)

Relative impact between each driver and loyalty to operator brand

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Latin AméricaBase: 850 & 1900New: AWS & 26002014+: APT700

MEABase: 2100New: 900, 1800 & 26002014+: CEPT800 & APT700

APACBase: 2100, 900 & 850New: 1800, 2300 & 2600 2014+: APT700

JapanBase: 2100, 1700, JP850New: 1500, 900 &

APT700

EuropeBase: 2100 & 900New: 2600, 1800 & CEPT800

North AmericaBase: 850, 1900, US700 &

AWS New: 2600

spectrum for mobile broadband- Regional mainstream hspa & lte deployments

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Assumptions: Propagation based. Suburban environment. Reference frequency is 800 MHz. 5 dB higher antenna gain at 2,100 MHz and 6 dB higher antenna gain at 2,600 MHz. LTE and HSPA: re-use 1

Broadband capacity & coverage- typical deployment by a European operator

Relative cell coverage area0.5 1.0

DD 800 MHz900 MHz

2,100 MHz

1,800 MHz

2,600 MHz

HSPA

LTE

FDD DL 5 MHzFDD DL 10 MHz

FDD DL 20 MHz

FDD DL 15 MHz

FDD DL 10 MHz

Radio link throughput proportional to

Coveragebands

Capacitybands

Relative cell coverage area0.5 1.0

DD 800 MHz900 MHz

2,100 MHz

1,800 MHz

2,600 MHz

HSPA

LTE

HSPA

LTE

FDD DL 5 MHzFDD DL 10 MHz

FDD DL 20 MHz

FDD DL 15 MHz

FDD DL 10 MHz

Radio link throughput proportional to

Coveragebands

Capacitybands

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New momentum

Mainstream mobile allocationscurrent assumption for sub 1 GHz bands

Europe, Middle East & Africa190 MHz

880 915 925 960791 862

The 900 MHz band [B8]The CEPT 800 band [B20]

832821788703

The APT700 band [B28]– Low Duplexer

2x30 MHz

= Downlink

= Uplink

SDL = Supplementary Downlink

US & Canada160 MHz824 849 869 894

The E850 Upper band [B26]and the 850 MHz [B5] bandsThe band 700 MHz [B12,17,29,13,14]

716 746768 798

699 729 777 787756758728718

SDL

814 859

APAC & Latin America>200 MHz

803 814/824

844 859/869 890

The E850 Lower / Upper [B27/26] and the 850 MHz [B5] bands

889915

935 960

The 900 MHz band [B8]

703

The APT700 band [B28]– Low & High Duplexer

2x45 MHz 852807

788

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› To date, 25 countries have adopted the APT700 band.

› Japan, Australia, Mexico and Taiwan have licensed the band.

› Devices and infrastructure will become available mid-2014.

› Excellent potential for global roaming.

› Momentum in ITU Region 1 for a combination of the lower duplexer of the APT700 band with the CEPT800 band, currently being deployed in Europe.

› Ericsson recommends to license spectrum in blocks of 2x5 MHz.

APT700 – Current update

The APT700 band brings significant economies of scale and capabilities to cost efficiently cover also rural areas

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Options discussed in CEPT ECC PT1

CEPT will reduce the number of options for a preferred channelling arrangement for the band 694-790 MHz

Two main options – currently a majority is supporting Option 1

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Frequency vs. costsRelative number of base stations sites for UHF:

• 700 MHz set to 0 dB antenna gain for reference

• 900 MHz at 1.5 dB higher antenna gain

• 2.1 GHz at 5 dB higher antenna gain

• 2.6 GHz at 6 dB higher antenna gain

networks based on UHF need less than a 3rd of the sites compared with higher bands

200 100% 126%

328%

455%

675%

1,230%

400

600

800

1,000

1,200

1,400

700 850 / 900 2,100 2,600 3,500 5,800

[MHz] Source: BBC R&D

[%]

Relative CAPEX for UHF infrastructure investments

the low frequency UHF band is key for cost efficient coverage

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