The GSM Family of Services
The Evolution to 3G
Joe Barrett
Director, Market Development
Nokia Networks
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Facts not Hype
• Globally GSM today is providing the most
growth and providing the best data rates
• GSM operators are ranked higher than any
other operators when it comes to the
percentage of data generated from ARPU
• GSM/EDGE will offer the highest data rates at
the lowest cost and the best Quality of Service
classes of any technology during 2003
• WCDMA will be needed for future capacity,
delivery cost, speed and quality of service in
mobile networks
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GSM is still providing the majority of
growth
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Source EMC Database
GSM is growing by a different order of
magnitude
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Source EMC Database
GSM Data Rates are Global
• GSM data rates with GPRS are in all operator cases across
the globe are between 30-40kb/s
• CDMA 1X user data rates vary from up to 90kb/s in a
fragmentated Korean market where they have a mixture of
proprietary solutions to 43kb/s in the US, which has been
measured by Nokia
• GSM/EDGE user data rates will be 80-100kb/s with the first
handsets and then 160 to 200kb/s by end of 2003
• WCDMA networks are already in working trials and the
terminals have passed regulatory type approval (dual mode) in
Europe and Japan
• Immediacy of service will have the biggest impact on the
network load and impact costs
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GSM is driving data ARPU
• The top data operators are
using GSM technology
• The top Japanese operators
have chosen the GSM
evolution path i.e. WCDMA
• KDDI is the only ranked
CDMA operator in the top 40
at 12th
• The Korean operators are
ranked 42nd, 47th & 49th and
will deploy WCDMA
• Roaming accounts for 7% of
Western European
Operator’s revenue
• In Korea roaming accounts
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Source EMC Database
Nokia EDGE Availability
• EDGE is an inherent part of Nokia's GSM evolution strategy
• Nokia EDGE infrastructure mass deployment has started
• Roll-outs are supported for all continents and markets
• Full commercial system support in networks in 05/03 for
ANSI and 07/03 for ETSI markets
• Nokia terminals availability
• First EDGE terminals for US market in 1Q03
(800/1800/1900)
• Followed by terminals for other markets from 2Q03
onwards (900/1800/1900)
• EDGE will be introduced progressively to several product
categories in 2H03 and through the terminal range in 2004
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WCDMA launches
Source EMC Database
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Summary
• We believe that the GSM Family of Services
offers the overall best evolution to 3G and the
most viably economic business case of any
technology that can be deployed today
• Our analysis is based on facts not hype
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