EDGE and UMTS

High Speed Broadband Access for

Mobile and Fixed Internet Access

AHCIET-CITEL Broadband Wireless Access Seminar

Erasmo Rojas
Director Latin America & Caribbean, 3G Americas
El Salvador, October 20, 2003
3G Americas Members and Mission

Promote and
facilitate the
seamless
deployment of
GSM, GPRS, EDGE
and UMTS
(WCDMA)
throughout the
Americas.
 World Digital Cellular Subscribers

June 2003
Nearly 82%
of
Global
72.49 Digital
% Subscribers

990 Million Combined!

.07% 9.15% 13.18% 5.11%
WCDMA GSM TDMA CDMA PDC
159 62
Million Million

Source: EMC World Cellular Database, Sept 2003

 Top 10 wireless markets
in Latin America

Source: EMC World Cellular Database

Wireless penetration in top 10
markets in Latin America
 Latin American Growth
06/2002 06/2003

91.7 M 17.5% 110 M

annual
growth
60 9.5 M New
Millions of Subs

Subscribers 45
133% June
Annual 2002
30 32% annual
growth
Growth June
2003
15 6.3 M 7M
New New
Subs Subs
0
TDMA CDMA GSM
Source: EMC World Cellular Database, June 2003
 GSM OPERATORS IN LATIN AMERICA
& THE CARIBBEAN
El Salvador 2
French Guyana 2
Anguilla 1 French West Indies 2
Antigua & Barbuda 3 Grenada 2
Guyana 1
Argentina 1
Jamaica 2 77 Operators
Aruba 1
Bahamas 1
Mexico 2 40 Countries
Montserrat 1
Barbados 2 Netherlands Antilles 3
Belize 2 Nicaragua 2
Bermuda 2 Panama 1
Bolivia 2 Paraguay 2
Brazil 10 Peru 1
Cayman Islands 1 Puerto Rico 2
Chile 2 St. Kitts & Nevis 1
Colombia 2 St. Lucia 3
St. Vincent/Grenadines 3
Costa Rica 1
Suriname 2
Cuba 1 *Operator list includes
Trinidad & Tobago 1
Dominica 2 those currently in service
Turks & Caicos Isles 1
Dominican Republic 1 US Virgin Islands 1 and those to be launched by
Ecuador 1 Venezuela 3 YE 2003.
 LEVEL OF COMPETITION
Country Local Domestic Intnl XDSL Wireless Mobile Mobile Leased Data VSAT Paging Mobile Fixed Cable GMPCS IMT ISP
Servic long dist long local loop analog digital lines sat Sat TV 2000
es dist

Argentina C C C C C C C C C C C C P C C ... C

Brazil P P P ... ... P P C C C C C C P C P C

Chile C C C … … C C C C … C C C C … … ...

Colombia C C C C C … P C C C C … … C C … C

Mexico C C C … … … … … C C C C C C … … C

Peru C C C … C C C C C C C C C C C … C

Venezuela C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C

C = full competition
P = partial competition Source: http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/treg/profiles/LevelOfComp-withall.asp
M = monopoly
 COUNTRIES WITH A SEPARATE
REGULATORY AUTHORITY
Country Name of Authority

Year Created Independent from political Reports to Legal document that Financed by Is it a collegial body?
power created the authority

Colombia Comisíon de Regulación de Telecomunicaciones

1994 Yes Ministry and Head of State Ley 142 de 1994 Yes: 6 members
and Legislative Branch and
Other (Office of the
Comptroller General of
Columbia and National
Bureau of Accounts)

Consejo Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (CONATEL)

Ecuador
1995 No The Head of State Ley Reformatoria a la Ley Spectrum fees: 66% Yes: 7 members
Especial de
Telecomunicaciones

Mexico Comisión Federal de Telecommunications (COFETEL)

1996 No Ministry Decreto de creación de la Other: 100% Government Yes: 4 members

Comision Federal de appropriations
Telecomunicaciones

Organismo Supervisor de Inversión Privada en Teleconmunicaciones (OSIPTEL)

Peru
1993 Yes Other: Office of the Ley de Yes: 5 members
President of the Council of Telecomunicaciones
Ministers

CONATEL
Venezuela
1991 Yes Ministry & Other: The Decreto No. 1.826 del 5 Government appropriation: Yes: 5 members
Central Office of Budget de Septiembre de 1991 6%
(OCPRE) G.O. No. 34.801, 18 Other Special contribution
Septiembre 1991 charges, 34.8 per cent.
Fees for universal service,
37.5 per cent. Investment
Source: http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/treg/profiles/SepRegAuth.asp income, 2.3 per cent.
Miscellaneous sources, 4.1
per cent.
 Value Added Services Evolution

Bandwidth Streaming
(video, audio)

MMS
(electronic
Internet postcard)
access
(email, LBS)

SMS chat &

broadcast

Voice
Services
 EDGE offers average end-user data rates of 80-130 Kbps and
up to 473 Kbps, offering a cost effective upgrade to GPRS
and providing three to four times the data throughput of
GPRS.

Theoretical
Optimal Data
Rates
 473 Kbps EDGE

CDMA
1xRTT
GPRS 153 Kbps
115 Kbps 80-130 Kbps
Average
Data Rates

30-40 Kbps 30-60 Kbps

 Evolution of Data Capabilities

Technology Benefits
General Packet Radio IP packet data service delivers effective throughputs
Service (coding schemes 1-2) of up to 40 Kbit/s
GPRS (coding schemes 1-4) Option for operators to boost speeds of GPRS service
by 33% and to increase capacity.
Enhanced Data Rates for Third-generation technology effectively triples GPRS
GSM Evolution (EDGE) data rates and doubles its spectral efficiency
(UMTS) Universal Mobile WCDMA radio link supports flexible, integrated
Telecommunications System voice/data services with peak rates of 2 Mbit/s
High Speed Downlink Option for WCDMA that boosts peak data rates to 10
Packet Access (HSDPA) Mbit/s, highest of any cellular system
Quality-of-service and Available for EDGE and UMTS/HSDPA, enables new
multimedia support applications such as video and voice over IP
WLAN Integration Integration of cellular and wireless hotspot services

Source: Rysavy, Nov 2002

 EDGE & UMTS for 3G Evolution
• EDGE Advantages
– Time to market
• Designed for existing spectrum: 800/900/1800/1900 MHz
• Low risk technology evolution from GSM/GPRS
– GSM global scale & scope
• Chipsets, handsets, infrastructure and applications
• Lower capital investment, better vendor selection
• Global roaming
• UMTS Advantages
• Designed for new spectrum: 2.1 GHz
• Deployment in re-farming of existing spectrum possible (i.e.
1900MHz)
• Uniform data rate across coverage area
• Symmetric uplink - downlink speeds
• Maximum supportable data rate is increased
• Greater spectral efficiency for higher average peak data rates
 EDGE and UMTS

EDGE
EDGE UMTS
UMTS
Equal
Equalcapacity
capacityand
andcoverage
coverageififall
allperformance
performance
<64...128 kbps
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enhancements techniques areutilized
techniques are utilized
Full
Fullcoverage
coverage
Suited for packet data
Suited for packet data
128 - 384 kbps
128 - 384 kbps without full coverage Higher
Higherspectral
spectral
without full coverage efficiency
efficiency thanEDGE
than EDGE
Suited
Suitedfor
forpacket
packetdata
data
>384 kbps
>384 kbps Future evolution
Future evolution without full coverage
without full coverage

 UMTS @ 5 MHz is more efficient for high service level due to the
wideband structure and QoS features

 EDGE @ 200 kHz is more flexible for narrow spectrum allocations and
performs well under about 128 kbps
 EDGE and UMTS share the same core network
 Upgrade from EDGE to UMTS is incremental with some projections of
about 60K per cell site
 GLOBAL EVOLUTION TO
3G MULTIRADIO NETWORKS

UMTS Multiradio
TDMA Network

GSM/GPRS GSM/GPRS/EDGE
GSM
WCDMA
PDC
?
cdmaOne cdma2000 1x
cdma2000 1xEV-DV

2G cdma2000 1xEV-DO

First Steps to 3G 3G Phase 1 Evolved 3G Networks

 Economies of scale will drive 3G evolution
Mobile Subscriber Percentages by
2006
Asia
Americas
cdmaOne/
Pacific
cdmaOne/
CDMA2000
CDMA2000
10%
4% Americas
GSM/EDGE
UMTS
Asia 23%
Pacific Europe
GSM/EDGE GSM/EDGE
UMTS UMTS
29% 34%
Over 85% of digital subscribers will be GSM/EDGE/WCDMA by end
2006
Source: Nokia 2002
 Muchas Gracias!

Erasmo Rojas
Director, Latin America & Caribbean
3G Americas
Office: 972 516 4213
Erasmo.rojas@3gamericas.org