Consideration on the future development

of mobile service

Zhang Dongchen
China Mobile Communication Corporation, China
March 2011
Contents

The Network Development of China Mobile

Considerations on Spectrum Insufficiency of

IMT

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The development of mobile service in China

 In the past decade, mobile communications have been growing rapidly in

China, which makes a strong impact on our daily lives

Fixed telephone users Mobile telephone users

The proportion of mobile telephone users The growth rate of mobile phone in every month

 By the end of 2010, the total number of national telephone users has reached
1153.39 million.
 The number of mobile telephone users has reached 859 million
 The number of 3G users has reached 47.05 million
 The mobile tele-density in China is: 64.4 telephones /100 people
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GSM and TD-SCDMA network

 As the largest telecom operators in the world, China Mobile

has played a very important role in the development of mobile
service in China
 The world's largest GSM network
 More than 500,000 GSM Base Stations
 More than 580 million users

 Continued expansion in TD-SCDMA

network coverage
 Covering 656 cities with 135,000 base
stations in operation at the end of 2010
 Steady growth of 3G users:
22.636 million at the end of Jan 2011

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The development of TD-LTE network

 TD-LTE is China Mobile’s future

 Successful TD-LTE demonstration during Shanghai World Expo
世博中心
 Coverage: 5.28 square km
 Data rate: 70Mbps
演艺中心
 Outdoor BS: 17
中国馆  Indoor coverage system: 8
 Operating band: 2.3GHz
主题馆 世博轴

 Successful TD-LTE demonstration

during Guangzhou Asian Games
 Provide service such as high definition
broadcast, mobile video monitoring, 3D
games and high-speed Internet access etc
Users are enjoying various high quality
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 The development of TD-LTE network

 Trials are ongoing in China

Lab Test: all system testes have been finished by Jan. 2010 Field Trial: Field Trial:
Field Test: finished by the end of 2010 4 Vendors 5 Vendors
Results show networking capability starts to be supported

Beijing Lab Test: Beijing

9 Vendors

Nanjing  Large-scale pre-commercial trial will

Shanghai be carried out in 6 cities this year.
Hangzhou  Will deploy more than 3600 base-
X iamen stations by the end of this year
Shenzhen  Operating band: 2.6GHz&2.3GHz
Guangzhou

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Service provided by multiple networks

 The traditional voice service is mainly carried by GSM network, and will
grows steadily in the future
 value-added data service will mainly carried by TD-SCDMA and future TD-
LTE network
 The income of data service has increased very rapidly due to the application
of smart terminal and increase in mobile network bandwidth

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Service provided by multiple networks

Data traffic becomes driving force for the growth of value-added business revenue

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The problem of spectrum insufficiency

 As the traffic capacity of mobile communications, especially the data

traffic, increased rapidly, the spectrum of IMT is increasingly
insufficient

Traffic trends of mobile communication

•Constructing and operating multiple networks at the same time

will further aggravate spectrum insufficiency
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 Solution to the spectrum insufficiency

 Method 1: Network optimization

Technical Method

Improve network capacity by Maximum the network

narrowing the distance between BSs potential by automatic
the distance between some base stations frequency optimization
in urban is less than 200 meters It has been widely adopted in
China mobile’s network

Further improvement of current network is limited

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Solution to the spectrum insufficiency

 Method 2:
Accelerate the frequency arrangement for implementation of IMT
ITU region 1 being arranged has been arranged
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450 470
470 790 862 960
790 862 960 1710
1710 2025
2025 2110
2110 2200
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3600

ITU region 2
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450 470
470 698 806
698 806 960
960 1710
1710 2025
2025 2110
2110 2200
2200 2300
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2400 2500
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3600

ITU region 3
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450 470
470 698
698 790/806
790/806 960
960 1710
1710 2025
2025 2110
2110 2200
2200 2300
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2400 2500
2500 2690
2690 3400
3400 3600
3600

ITU-R will finish the arrangement of IMT spectrum allocated at WRC07 in 2011
This is a very effective method which can obtain obvious effect in a short period

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Solution to the spectrum insufficiency

 Method 3: Acquire more frequency spectrum for IMT

ITU forecast on the spectrum requirement in the future
requirements

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and before
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2010 2015 2020 2010 2015 2020
（ a) Developed area for mobile service (b) Developing area for mobile service

According to the prediction from ITU, the requirement for mobile service frequency will be around
1300MHz.
At present, only about 1100MHz spectrum identified for IMT, still has hundreds of MHz
frequency gap
Although this method will take a long time, it is the basic and most effective solution to fulfill
the frequency requirement in the future
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Solution to the spectrum insufficiency

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 Some techniques to enhance spectrum efficiency, i.e. SDR &CRS, are

studied.
 Considerations:
QoS of IMT service should be guaranteed sufficiently when the new techniques are
implemented
Some time, supports from administrative policy are needed
Cannot solve the issue in recent years.
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More spectrum to unlock the constraints on IMT development!

Thank You!

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