• Broadband market development and market drivers
• Changes in price and production costs
• LTE as a major enabler for high speed mobile broadband
• How to turn LTE into a success?

• Examining the performance gap between HSPA and LTE
• Between the LTE and WiMAX debate, does HSPA+ emerge as an alternative?
• Do operators need to deploy HSPA+ before evolving to LTE?
• Examining cost versus performance for HSPA+, what are the time scales and the silicon view?

• Mobile content as TV, VoD plays a differentiating role
• Is LTE offering advantages delivery or service advantage?
• Market timing of advanced integrated offerings vs. LTE roll-out

• Deploying LTE in TDD mode
• Analysing the technical and performance differences between LTE in FDD and TDD
• How will economies of scale be affected by deploying LTE in TDD rather then FDD mode?
• Should WIMAX to become the TDD Mode for LTE?

• When can the standards and system performance requirements be expected to be finalised?
• Beginning standardisation for LTE-Advanced, will it be a truly 4G technology?
• Looking at the standards for Release 9 and 10
• Timescales for standardisation of 4G

• Examining the various frequency bands that data services currently run on in Europe
• Ensuring service neutrality and pan European harmonisation of frequencies
• Allowing customers to benefit from economies of scale and giving rapid access to new technologies such as LTE, what are the challenges for operators and regulators?

• Growth and penetration of mobile broadband in Ireland including mobile vs. fixed
• What do we mean by spectrum efficiency, value, bits/Hz or end users per unit of spectrum
• 900MHz; technology and spectrum neutrality a.k.a spectrum liberalisation
• Scenarios and opportunities!

• Examining the need for smaller cell sizes to realize the potential throughput of LTE
• Viability of LTE hotspots/hotzones that can fall back on HSPA and the consequent issue of smaller, cheaper form factors to suit
• Deploying basestations in built up areas only; will there be a need for LTE in rural areas in the first few years of deployment?
• Will there be a need for LTE femtocells, or will HSPA and CDMA technologies dominate in that domain?

• Will LTE at 2.6GHz provide sufficient coverage indoors?
• What role will picocells play in LTE deployment?
• Examining planning solutions for in-building coverage

• What practical performance gains can HSPA+ and LTE deliver?
• Is the historical growth in wireless capacity sustainable and sufficient to deliver mobile broadband?

- Spectral efficiency, spectrum availability, cell size

• Understanding the link between spectral efficiency, system cost and system complexity
• What role can femtocells and WiFi play as part of an affordable high capacity wireless ecosystem

• Examining MIMO technology and spatial multiplexing features for LTE and HSPA+
• Can MIMO’ s be built on existing sites and basestations?
• How will MIMO increase the form factor in handsets?
• Analysing the importance of having antennas that can support multiple bands

• Will LTE terminals have separate chips for LTE, HSPA and GSM?
• What is the increased price pressure of having backwards compatibility with both HSPA and GSM and any other standards?
• Chip implications for regional markets

• Removing the need for drive testing - quantifying the cost saving for operators
• Examining the LTE standards for self optimisation, what is required?
• Challenges involved in writing self optimisation algorithms for something that has not yet been deployed
• Will self optimisation bring the end of managed networks?

• Is frequency re-use achievable with LTE?
• Can error detecting coding process data in spite of interference?
• Problems envisaged with cost, planning permission and cell planning for LTE cell sites
• Potential problems with multiple antennae and interference? Is frequency re-use achievable with LTE?

Cocktail Drinks Reception - Sponsored by LG

• Approaches to valuing spectrum adopted by both auction participants and regulators
• Development of business plan models for valuing spectrum for LTE
• Benchmarking approach to spectrum valuation
• Case studies - including digital dividend and 2.6GHz spectrum bands

• Identifying the main drivers and revenue opportunities that LTE enables
• Identifying key opportunities for optimized ROI for greenfield or existing carriers
• New business models enabled by LTE
• Addressing the pent up demand for true wireless broadband stimulating usage of value added services and applications in the mass market

• Examining operator partnerships, how beneficial can they be to operators?
• Evaluating the challenges of financing a whole new network
• Should new services evolve themselves or be pushed by the operator?
• Should LTE follow a different business model?
• Implementing a low cost strategy for LTE

• Challenges of deploying LTE network
• What is the killer application in LTE?
• Steps to making LTE a reality

• Examining for the EPC is optimised for IP transport
• Should operators upgrade or re-build their core network?
• What sis the best core strategy?
(a) overlay and later integration
(b) direct integration
(c) upgrade integration
• Can the EPC be used for UMTS?

• Recognizing the work of the 3GPP in standardising IMS
• Utilising IMS to handover to legacy networks to enable voice and SMS for LTE customers
• What are the timing and cost implications of this network upgrade?
• How will the re-coding of information degrade the quality of voice services?

• Building a core network to support all technologies that provide data services as well as LTE
• Is this a cost operators are willing to bear?
• How can the IP core network be optimised to support new technologies when required?
• Is IMS or SIP the best way for the core network to support all access technologies?
• How can operators provide VoIP in a fixed and mobile domain?

Cocktail Drinks Reception - Sponsored by LG

• Taking existing end-user expectation and enabling it in LTE
• Requirements for interoperability in the device and the network
• Next Generation Roaming - moving the GRX into the LTE world
• The plan for enabling LTE Roaming

This interactive Q& A session will allow delegates to ask Remi Thomas, Director of NGMN Project and Head of Network Strategy, about France Telecom’s network strategy and their plans for LTE.
Send your questions to Sabah.Hussain@Informa.com or ask on the day!

• Content owner requirements and opportunities with LTE
• How do content owners expect demand for their services to increase as data rates increase with LTE?
• Mobile internet access business models - open access or walled garden?
• Is there a right answer for operators?

• What is needed to take LTE from specification to commercial deployment?
• Latest results from the Proof of Concept group. What is LTE capable of today?
• Roadmap for interoperability testing and field trials

• Mobile Broadband extended to new devices
• Recent updates in LTE implementation trials
• Harmonized LTE FDD and TDD framework for efficient use of spectrum
• Requirements for self optimizing networks (SON)
• LTE cost efficiency, performance and end user experience

• Differentiating between the peak and average data rates for LTE
• Can LTE really provide mobile broadband to the mass market?
• Which applications do we foresee for the next 5 year timeframe which require LTE versus HSPA/HPSA+ capability with existing 3G spectrum?
• Can LTE support high-bandwidth streaming applications such as video? What are the implications for the amount of spectrum required and the number of cell sites?

• Is LTE sized to handle Video? Capacity, user experience, device type
• What video quality is realistic on LTE
• Video usage cases, On-demand and MBMS
• Impact and consideration of video applications on LTE
• How to monetize video applications on LTE

• Examining the benefits of phasing out HSPA, would this simplify the network in the long term?
• With three different networks, which one should operators continue to invest in?
• What are the implications of global roaming?
• What are the IPR benefits of phasing out HSPA?

• Which challenges operator faces introducing LTE to existing 2G/3G networks?
• How to minimize the risk of several radio access technologies operated simulteanously
• LTE as general radio access platform mid to long term
• Examining the introduction costs for LTE, how can they be minimized?

• Requirements of initial testing
• Simulating the mobile terminal
• Network loading
• Evolution of test towards deployment

• What are the backhaul requirements for LTE with data, video and multimedia services driving the demand for more bandwidth?
• Examining the limitations of current backhaul technologies
• How important is it to remove TDM from the network given the rise in data traffic expected with LTE?
• Examining how the EPC makes that backhaul a point to multi-point network

• Analysing the future challenges of building an LTE backhaul infrastructure
• How can operators converge the 2G/3G and LTE backhaul infrastructure?
• What are the potential pitfalls with this move?
• Is MPLS as an overlay to package 2G, 3G and LTE the most future proof solution?

• Differences between 3G and LTE Femtocells
• What are interference challenges with the macro network that still remain?
• Examining how the backhaul needs to be up to the task to support femtocells
• Can LTE handover to WiFi and will LTE devices have WiFi capability?

• What features, applications and software will be available on LTE handsets?
• How will the handsets differ from current models?
• What are the challenges with handsets working on multiple bands?
• Providing seamless mobility between different access technologies

• Will voice continue to be handled by legacy CS networks?
• Examining how current IMS and SIP can be used to manage VoIP
• Ensuring support and handover when LTE isn’t available

• Creating differentiation through mobile web friendly features
• Enabling operator and developer partnerships
• What new revenue streams can be generated for mobile operators other then flat rate subscriptions?
• Ensuring user experience with web applications, what are the handset requirements?

• Enabling web connectivity and performance on handsets
• What are the main difficulties in developing mobile applications on handsets?
• Exploring terminals software development strategies

• Migration path through HSPA, HSPA+, LTE
• Multi-mode/multi-band capability
• LTE support for converged devices - computing, communications and consumer electronics

• What are the cost drivers and what determines wholesale handset selling prices?
• What are the challenges for handset manufacturers in minimising costs and form factors?
• Is there a need to limit royalty rates to 10% and will this help improve the case for LTE?
• Long term effects on the industry and innovation of efforts to reduce the value of essential IPR?

• What are the industry expectations for NGMN?
• The importance of having well defined standards and expectations
• Are the standards defined well enough for technologies such as LTE and WiMAX?
• What are the performance targets, recommendations and deployment scenarios?

• Overview from region to region
• Latest technical/regulatory actions regarding specific LTE bands
• Implications of the digital dividend
• Usage conditions, timeframes and band arrangements currently under discussion

• Key learning from DVB-H and MFLO field trials
• Comparison with MBMS
• Challenges of deploying Mobile TV today
• Providing Mobile TV with LTE

• Market and KDDI Business Overview
• Brief Introduction of KDDI cellular services
• Wireless Broadband (WiMAX)
• KDDI Concept for FMC“Ultra 3G”
• Functions required for Evolution toward 3.9G Systems

• Analysis of the business case for NGMN’s, will they be profitable?
• What migration issues and obstacles will affect the business case and deployment strategy?
• What is the expected uptake from customers and the revenue that is expected to be generated over the coming years from NGMN’s?

• Sensitivity analysis of the operator business case
• Identifying the parameters with the biggest impact
• Analyse the impact of LTE on those parameters.

• Understanding the advantages and disadvantages of this move
• Is a merger of the two technologies technically possible? What is the cost?
• How will the industry benefit from economies of scale if LTE and WiMAX did merge?
• How likely is a merger between the two technologies or with WiMAX and LTE Advanced?

• How do operator and customer requirements vary between emerging and developed markets?
• Have many emerging market operators opted for WiMAX because it is available now?
• Examining the availability of spectrum in emerging markets

• Analysing the level of penetration of WiFi
• Where in the market does WiFi belong, what is the gap they are filling
• Will NGMN’s need to be interoperable with WiFi
• Will there be a role for UMA to help interoperability between standards?

• What is the business model for iBURST? What does it offer that other, more conventional networks don’t?
• Is iBURST more expensive given that it does not benefit from economies of scale?
• Will iBURST customers be able to roam on other networks?
• What are the number and quality of handsets that are available for iBURST customers?

• Recognising the importance of IPR as one of the most important price component of any technology
• How essential is it to have transparency and predictability in the cost of IPR?
• Will ex-ante disclosure of licensing terms provide the desired transparency?
• If so, how does one deal with later releases of LTE standards when new technologies are introduced or technologies that are not clearly identifiable as essential or nonessential in advance of standardisation?

• Will the move to keep essential LTE patents at below 10% marginalize small and innovative manufacturers?
• Comparing the LTE and WiMAX IPR models, does this make one technology cheaper then the other?
• Why are standards setting organisations prohibited from being forums for commercial discussions, negotiations and agreements on licensing terms and conditions?
• What antitrust authority concerns are there on collective discussions on licensing conditions such as royalty caps and proportionality?
• Which practices are acceptable and which are unacceptable under Article 82 of the EC Treaty?