The NGMN Alliance publishes spectrum statement regards ITU-R World Radiocommunication Conference 2012

The NGMN Alliance today published an official statement regards ITU-R WRC-12 - please find the statement below:

 

STATEMENT OF THE NGMN ALLIANCE REGARDS WRC-12 (Version 5 111216)

 

NGMN notes future mobile broadband spectrum shortage and supports Agenda Item 8.2 at ITU-R WRC-12 towards spectrum studies and possible additional allocations to the mobile service and identification of bands for IMT at ITU-R WRC-15. NGMN urges that ITU-R Working Party 5D have the lead role in conducting the relevant studies.

 

NGMN supports the ITU-R World Radiocommunication Conference 2012 in its deliberation on Agenda Item 8.2, and seeks a positive outcome on future spectrum and band discussions to support the on-going deployment of terrestrial mobile broadband applications utilizing IMT wireless technologies and systems.

 

NGMN recognizes that mobile broadband delivered by the IMT technology families has had immense success around the world. Mobile communications and the on-going mobile broadband deployments have been playing very positive roles in the economic and social developments of both developed and developing countries.

 

Mobile broadband traffic and the number of subscriptions have dramatically increased in the last few years. In 2010 alone growth in global mobile traffic has seen an increase of over two-and-a-half times, nearly tripling for the third year in a row. The number of global mobile subscriptions has increased from 3.9 billion in 2008 to 5.3 billion in 2010. New types of mobile devices, such as smart phones and tablets, and new user behaviours have emerged and are now a well-established demand dynamic. Smart phones are expected to increase from 23% of total phone shipments in 2010 to more than 45% in 2015. Machine type communications (M2M) and embedded devices are a fast growing-market segment which is seen to have the possibility for 20 billion connections by year 2020. These and other factors are triggering an ever greater need to deliver not only high data rate services but also high quality of service to mobile broadband consumers.

 

It is recognized that spectrum is the fuel for the mobile broadband engine and that the spectrum situation now and in the near future in many Regions of the world is not sufficient even with the pace of technology evolution producing significant advances in spectral efficiencies to keep up with the rampant demand.

 

NGMN supports the ITU-R World Radiocommunication Conference 2012 in its deliberation on Agenda Item 8.2. NGMN supports putting into play towards decisions in WRC-15, the discussions and studies in ITU-R on spectrum demands and requirements for the development of terrestrial mobile broadband applications focused on IMT and possible regulatory actions, including additional allocations to the mobile service and identification of bands for IMT. NGMN recognizes the successful contribution that ITU-R Working Party 5D has made to the advance of IMT and is of the opinion that the relevant ITU studies related to a future agenda item on mobile broadband focused on IMT at WRC-15 should be conducted by WP 5D. It is recognized that the discussions and studies on additional spectrum for IMT systems will be a difficult process. WP 5D has shown in the past how reliable and efficient it is with dealing with such complex issues, and should be involved to minimize the risk that the necessary studies will not be completed in time for WRC-15.

 

Sandro Dionisi

 

Chairman of the Board of the NGMN Alliance

 

Download: Statement of NGMN Regards WRC-12



The NGMN Alliance celebrates today its 5th Anniversary!

Frankfurt/London, 16th November 2011



5 years ago, NGMN was founded by leading international Operators to support and complement the work within the standardisation bodies and industry forums for successful deployment and delivery of mobile broadband technology. Today, NGMN is established as the primary telecom industry organization dealing with next generation mobile network related matters.


"On behalf of the Board I would like to take the opportunity of the 5th Anniversary of the NGMN Alliance, to thank all NGMN partners - operators, vendors and universities - for supporting our efforts in these essential years for the organization.", said Sandro Dionisi, Chairman of the NGMN Board and Head of Telecom Italia lab. "I would also like to thank the initiators, and the initial working group leaders for their personal commitment and important contributions. Building on the alliance's key strengths and based on the new working scope and processes, I am sure that we are now best positioned to implement and further develop the NGMN requirements, to share experiences and to assess new technology trends."



NTT DOCOMO presenting ORI Implementation and future devices for the LTE Rollout

NTT DOCOMO representatives at the NGMN Operating Committee (OC) meeting in Frankfurt on 15 November presented DOCOMO's LTE rollout status and achievements. DOCOMO launched LTE service 'Xi' on 24 December 2010, first in Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka areas and initially with data terminals. A maximum download speed of 75 Mbps on a network with large capacity and low latency are the major differentiators to the legacy 3G network. NTT DOCOMO is on plan to achieve network coverage on all prefectural capitals and similar sized cities in Japan within 2011 and is even increasing the rollout speed.

 

For the network deployment with remote radio heads DOCOMO is making use of the ETSI ORI based interface, thereby allowing DOCOMO to use different vendor combinations throughout the network. Furthermore, the architecture allows for highly flexible and efficient deployment scenarios.
This was only made possible by the work undertaken by the NGMN Alliance in their OBRI (Open BBU RRH Interface) project and by the standardisation work afterwards initiated within the ETSI ISG ORI.

 

In a major next step, NTT DOCOMO started rollout of LTE tablets in October 2011 followed by LTE enabled smartphones from November 2011.
CS fallback will be used as the initial method for implementation of voice services. However, it is planned to move to VoLTE soon, which will provide simultaneous voice and data services on LTE as well as improved spectrum usage.



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