The GSM Family of services / The evolution of 3G

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The GSM Family of ServicesThe Evolution to 3G

Joe Barrett

Director, Market Development

Nokia Networks


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

•There is no doubt about this


GSM is still providing the majority of growth

Source EMC Database


GSM is growing by a different order of magnitude

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


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 for only 0.5% of revenue

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


WCDMA launches

Source EMC Database


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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