Broadband Strategies for the Mobile Market
Published February 2006
This Report looks at the key technologies, standards, regulatory situation, and market dynamics. It takes as its starting point the growth in broadband access using 3G mobile technologies. With new IEEE standards supported by the WiMAX Forum, what are the prospects for alternative carriers, incumbents and mobile operators over the next 5 years and how will that impact the 3G market?
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Mobile services will increasingly deploy broadband wireless technologies to improve ARPU by increasing the proportion of users accessing data services because of
- the higher speed, lower latency and
- basket of services that will be offered.
- These technologies will be a combination of 3G with enhancements like HSDPA, 1xEV-DO Rev A along with WiMAX using IEEE802.16e-2005 standards.
- The reason 802.16e-2005 has a role to play is based on its higher performance and lower costs compared with 3G technologies.
- 802.16e-2005 is an all-IP network, using VoIP, hence lower OPEX.
- It uses OFDM which has better performance in larger bandwidths than WCDMA or CDMA, hence greater spectral efficiency and coverage at the same frequencies.
- It will improve performance using MIMO, AAS and other advanced techniques, which will be available before the equivalent from the 3G community.
- 3G will evolve to 4G at the end of the decade. Many of the likely characteristics of 4G are already available in 802.16e-2005.
SOFDMA used in 802.16e-2005 will improve upon OFDM256 used in 802.16-2004 for NLOS applications by:
- Improving NLOS coverage by utilizing advanced antenna diversity schemes, and hybrid-Automatic Retransmission Request (HARQ)
- Increasing system gain by use of denser sub-channelization, thereby improving indoor penetration
- Introducing high-performance coding techniques such as Turbo Coding and Low-Density Parity Check (LDPC), enhancing security and NLOS performance
- Introducing downlink sub-channelization, allowing administrators to trade coverage for capacity or vice versa
- Improving coverage by introducing Adaptive Antenna Systems (AAS) and Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) technology
- Eliminating channel bandwidth dependencies on sub-carrier spacing, allowing for equal performance under any RF channel spacing (1.25-14MHz)
- Using an enhanced Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm which can tolerate larger delay spreads, increasing resistance to multipath interference
There are some potential barriers to this happening however
- Spectrum availability-will regulators allow fixed line or mobile operators to use spectrum for portable or mobile applications given the investment by mobile operators in expensive 3G spectrum?
- 3G is building a 3-4 year lead in the market in deployment and development of handsets compared to 802.16e-2005.
- 3G operators may decide to wait for 4G rather than use another standard in the interim.
The net effect of this is that TelecomView believes that by 2011 some 16% of broadband mobile subscribers will be using 802.16e-2005 technology-some 130 million out of almost 900 million users. This forecast is based on our analysis that the cost of deploying 802.16e-2005 for high-speed mobile data services is between one half and one fourth of the cost of 3G technologies. This cost differential provides an irresistible opportunity for wireline carriers that want a piece of the mobile action as well as for mobile operators looking to lower the cost of their data networks.
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