WTTx: one Way to Monetize the

Large Bandwidth

Dr. Guangyi Liu

CTO of Wireless and Device, CMRI
Contents

1 WTTx is one of Operator’s Basic Services

2 Key Issues to develop WTTx

3 Practice on TDD WTTx

 WTTx is suitable for Rural/Suburban HBB

• Terrain restricted: difficult to deploy cable/fiber, Philippines, Indonesi, Nigeria…

• Policy restricted: private property, difficult to trench, majority of countries except China /Vietnam.
• Population density restricted: low density suburban, high wiring cost, US, Canada, EU.
 WTTx Provide Lower Cost: Connect the Unconnected

Higher Power E2E Coordination More Antennas

4T4R 8T8R+SoftSplit
4x20w 4x40w 2.3X Coverage 1.7X Coverage
1.4X Coverage 1.5X Capacity 1.8X Capacity

Scenario 1:
1.4X -69% -74% 1.7X
Coverage
limited Single User Cost -41%
Single User Cost -30%

Scenario 2:
Capacity _ -33% -62% -44%
limited

• High power 4T4R / 8T8R RRU, lower per user cost

• E2E coordination further reduce per user cost
Note: if considering the increment cost of eNB, per user cost reduction should change accordingly
 Lower Cost: Massive MIMO Leverages Connections in Urban

Urban Scenario Great Saving of Sites Cost

3D BF 64T64R 8T8R x 5

Great Saving of Spectrum Cost Great Saving of Per-User Cost

Good capacity
650Mbps for urban scenario 5X

Single User Cost -80%

20MHz Capacity not enough
110Mbps for urban scenario Note: if considering the increment cost of eNB,
per user cost reduction should change accordingly
 Fiber-class wireless broadband needs large bandwidth

Sub-6GHz Above 6GHz

4.8GHz 200MHz
Group 80GHz
Large 4.4 GHz 100MHz

Contiguous 3.8GHz 400MHz

33.25 GHz
Group 50GHz
Bandwidth 3.5GHz 400MHz

3.3GHz 100MHz
Group 40GHz
2.6GHz 200MHz

2.3GHz 100MHz
1.9GHz 40 MHz Group 30GHz

Potential 1540MHz TDD Potential TDD Spectrum

Spectrum Released by 2020 6GHz above beyond 2020
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 Enable Fast & Precise User Development

WTTx Map Multi-Dimensions Evaluation

Outdoor CPE Indoor CPE

Value Cells
Distribution Where Deploy?
Heavy Load MBB Traffic
Distribution map
xDSL/FTTx Which Type?
Distribution
WTTx Map
Prohibited Area

Precise Post Analysis

Top N Related Cell Analysis: CPE Monitor & Detection: WBB & MBB
Comprehensive Analysis
Contents

1 WTTx is one of Operator’s Basic Services

2 Key Issues to Develop WTTx

3 Practice on TDD WTTx

3 Key issues to Develop WTTx

1）Customer’s requirement
2）ROI & Spectrum Resource
3）Device Ecosystem
 industry is ready to support the NBP goal

Country Pace: Most below 10Mbps Industry Pace: +25Mbps for vMoS 4.0 Exp
LTE-A capability not yet fully revealed Moving to 4K & Massive MIMO
1Gbps
VR
175Mbps 360º view
VR
20Mbps ½ Screen
8Mbps 4K
4Mbps 2K
2Mbps 1080p
720p

20MHz 100MHz+
with Massive-MIMO traditional macro
5x Efficiency vs. 8T8R
xGbps
~2Gbps nx20MHz
24x MU-BF
Massive commercial
US/EU: Increasing frequent review on NBP goal (>25Mbps) but 650+Mbps 3x20MHz 2018+
development still lag behind expectation (push for speed up 16x MU-BF
20MHz
implementation is needed)
Commercial 650Mbps 2017
Many countries still adopt old target (<10Mbps), many still focus 16x MU-BF
on fixed line. 2017 could be a chance to review target (push
2016~2017Q1 * Note: based on 2Rx UE
for planning is needed)
 WTTx require lower cost to speed up

WTTx & FBB Synergy Speeds Recent High Price Auction

Up HBB Development Discourage Deployment
Low Density Household%

Fast Thai India

Rural TTM WTTx has 900MHz 700/900MHz
advantage (2016) (2016)

Sub- WTTx &

urban Shorten MBB
ROI coordinated Sold at $2.125 Unsold
billion
FBB has (slow deployment
advantage
so far)
Speed Up Subs Increase
Household% without FBB
 Low + High Bands to balance coverage & per GB cost

Reasonable price for spectrum (700M/2.3/2.6/3.5GHz) facilitates to build a healthy ecosystem

Yearly WBB Cost /User ($)
The More Carriers, the
Lower Per Bit TCO 300

$3.5

$ 2.0
$1.5
250

200

150
WTTx
525M market
potential
2
Years
100 Return Of
925M market
WTTx
potential Investment
1-carrier 2-carrier 4-carrier 50

Assume 800M + 1800M + 2600M + 2600M 20% 40% 60% 80% WBB penetration
ratio

Can GSMA-industry work out some spectrum price design guidelines to prevent overcharge?
 Chipset: 4.5G Features are Becoming Mature
2016H2 2017H1 2017H2
MSM MSM MSM MDM
8976 8996 8998 9x6x(X20)
SnapDragon652 SnapDragon820 SnapDragon835 1.2Gbps
DL 2CC CA DL 3CC CA 1Gbps 4*4 MIMO + 3CC CA
UL 2CC CA 4*4 MIMO Single Carrier F+T 4CC CA DL 5CC CA
UDC DL 256QAM 4*4MIMO + 2CC CA 2018 Launch
UL 64QAM LTE-U LAA
1Gbps
Balong 4*4 MIMO (TM3/4/9) Balong F+T 5CC CA
750 4*4 MIMO + 2CC CA 765 256QAM
F+T 3CC CA LTE-U
UL 2CC CA 340M~Sub 6GHz
UL 64QAM

Helio Helio Helio

X20 X25 X30
Cat6 Cat6 Cat10
DL 2CC CA DL 2CC CA DL 3CC CA
G/U/T/L G/U/T/L G/U/T/L
XMM XMM
7480 7560
Cat6/7
Cat10/13 1Gbps
DL 4CC CA (up to 60MHz) 4*4MIMO
Cat9~11
UL 2CC CA DL 5CC CA Cat12/13
DL 256QAM UL 3CC CA Cat16
UL 64QAM DL 256QAM
Cat18
Enlarging the global scale help chipset manufactures to release high-performance low-cost chipsets
Contents

1 WTTx is one of the Operator’s Basic Services

2 Key Issues to Develop WTTx

3 Practice on TDD WTTx

WTTx: Usage scenario for the Last One Mile Solution

Value proposition: Bridge the digital divide

• No household broadband access for families in rural area and mountain
area

WTTx vs FBB
• FBB: Stable performance but huge cost for last Mile and long
time to market
• WBB: Effective solution for scenario with less user density, high
cabling and trenching construction cost

WTTx with MBB Evolution

• Reuse MBB network, co-site, co-carrier
 WTTx: Powers up High Value Services

Small/Medium
Internet + VoIP Home Entertainment
Enterprises

Basic Revenue of WTTx High Value Add-on High APRU Subscribers

• Fiber speed internet access • OTT Video / IPTV • Fiber speed internet access
• Voice Over IP • Video broadcasting • Guaranteed QoS
• L2/L3 VPN
 WTTx : Roadmap for further evolution

>120Mbps 5G
Efficiency : 4x
>60Mbps 10Gbps
3CC
30Mbps Efficiency: 2x
2 layers Efficiency : 5x
8 Rx 3D-MIMO 256QAM
2CC 2CC
UL peak data rate 1 layers 2 layers
64QAM 64QAM
Spectrum 2019
efficiency

2018 >1.5Gbps
TD-LTE Performance Now Efficiency : 4x
>800Mbps e3D-MIMO
DL peak data rate 330Mbps Efficiency : 2x 5CC
4 layers
Spectrum 8 Tx 3D-MIMO
efficiency 256QAM
3CC 3CC
2 layers 4 layers
64QAM 256QAM
3D-MIMO Launch in Commercial Network

Massive MIMO, Key Technology of 5G in 4G

Technology Advantages Tested in commercial network with 50+BS

in biggest cities of China

TXRU Facilitate 4G to Significant gain from Massive-MIMO than 8

TXRU

TXRU
TXRU
TXRU
TXRU evolve to 5G antenna 343%
TXRU TXRU 400%
TXRU
Coverage
TXRU
TXRU
280%
TXRU
TXRU TXRU

TXRU
TXRU TXRU enhancement 241%
TXRU
TXRU TXRU
TXRU TXRU

TXRU
TXRU TXRU Throughput 200%
improvement 100%
TXRU
TXRU TXRU
TXRU TXRU
TXRU
TXRU

3D-MIMO No change to 0%
existing TD-LTE
Commercial Commercial Commercial
device
Network Network Network
+8 video users+16 video users
8 Antenna Massive-MIMO
 Indoor CPE portfolio
Indoor CPE
Parameter configuration
• CPE deployed in 2016:
Memory Flash 16MByte,DDR 64MByte
Indoor CPE : 700,000
WiFi 2.4GHz，300Mbps

Outdoor CPE: 400,000 Low power consumption ,SMS, software

Features
upgrade remotely or locally

TDD-LTE Band38、Band39、Band40、Band41
Bands FDD-LTE Band1、Band3
supported TD-SCDMA Band34、Band39
GSM Band3、Band8

RJ45 Ethernet interface：4

User
Wi-Fi interface
interface
USIM card interface

Power
100V~240V，50Hz~60Hz
supply
Outdoor CPE portfolio

CPE for outdoor

Parameters Configuration

SIM card 1.8V/3V SIM/USIM card

WiFi 2.4GHz，2*2 MIMO

Web based remote management，simple installation, data

Feature
volume billing, Webpage based SMS

TDD-LTE Band38、Band39、Band40
Band FDD-LTE Band3、Band7、Band8、Band17
supported TD-SCDMA Band34、Band39
GSM 900/1800M

RJ45 Ethernet Interface：4

User interface Wi-Fi interface
SIM/USIM card interface

Power supply 100V~240V，50Hz~60Hz

Thank you