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Message from 3GPP for LTE India - Edition 2014
The LTE India conference has provided a shop window for 3GPP for a number of years now. We held our first workshop linked to the conference back in 2010, travelling to Chennai for a special event, and we have followed up with standards sessions in Mumbai, Bangalore and in New Delhi in the years since then.
Our consistent message has been that 3GPP LTE standards have been published as a result of the same methodology that gave us GSM and UMTS systems before it. This story has been one of predictable and planned growth, from standards to products. Despite this evolutionary - rather than revolutionary - progress, I think that LTE India 2014 may be the perfect moment to think big and to dare to look forward in our discussions. The question we should be asking ourselves is; "what next for LTE?"
It is easy to jump quickly to the assumption that we will see presentations on the topic of 5G. This is natural, but we should focus equally on where LTE-Advanced will take us and where the two join together? In terms of the standards, LTE-Advanced is already mature, with 3GPP Release 12 adding significant improvements for densely populated areas, for improved performance and for the addition of features for use cases in other fields, including specific work items on critical communications and machine-to-machine communications.
The 4th Generation, has shown us regional and national differences across the globe. Europe has taken its time with existing 3G assets providing high data-rates and better coverage, in preparation for LTE. In North America, we have seen spectacular LTE developments, and in Asia, some countries - notably Korea - have been equally bold. In China and India, we are seeing the start of LTE availability, and with these two massive markets joining in, the GSMA has predicted that Asia will have one half of all global LTE connections by 2017.
The success of 'future mobile' is set to be built on LTE-Advanced, as we are still early in the market adoption phase, with standards work still actively dealing with future improvements. So where does 5G fit in to this picture? What can we expect by 2020 - a date that has received a lot of attention recently?
One of the issues, facing us, is the proof of compliance of products and services that build trust with users and allow policy makers to be 100% confident that ubiquitous 3GPP systems, linked to future 5G infrastructures have the resilience and security necessary for essential data services, going forward.
The cycle of change and evolution is in full motion, and I look forward to hearing your views and to meeting you in New Delhi for the LTE India 2014 event.
Adrian Scrase
Head of 3GPP MCC, ETSI CTO
The transformative effect of 4G Mobile Broadband:
The potential to improve societies and empower individuals
With the convergence of the Internet and wireless communications, mobile data services are undergoing tremendous growth. As users increasingly enter the network and create an enormous surge in mobile traffic, mobile operators need to focus on the quality of experience they provide to their users. Broadband network technologies such as 3G, enhanced 3G and now 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) or 4G specifications are being deployed to meet user expectations for speed in an increasingly mobile, wireless environment.
Changes in mobile communications have always been evolutionary and the deployment of LTE is expected to be the same. The 4G mobile specifications is expected to provide multi-megabit bandwidth, more efficient use of the radio network, latency reduction, and improved mobility. This would enhance the subscriber's interaction with the network and further drive the demand for mobile multimedia services. With wireless broadband, users can more readily access their Internet services such as online television, blogging, social networking, and interactive gaming on the go. Talking of numbers, the global number of 4G-LTE connections is expected to pass one billion by 2017, according to a new study by GSMA Intelligence.
