Mobile Broadband Strategy Day

Pre-Conference LTE Focus Day

08:15     Registration and Refreshments

08:50     Conference Welcome & Speed Networking Session

09:00     Opening Remarks from Chairman Dawei Zhang

09:10     The Path to 4G in Taiwan: Results from Chunghwa’s LTE Trial

• What have been the results of the LTE trials? How has the network performed and what steps are still necessary to realize LTE coverage?
• What are the OPEX & CAPEX considerations for deploying LTE? Equipment & devices, network optimisation, and spectrum allocation
• How does planning for LTE differ from HSPA?

Dr Yi-Bing Lin, Dean & Chair Professor, College of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University

09:40    Operators’ Migration Strategy: Launching LTE/DC-HSPA Service in Hong Kong

• What have been the results of the world’s first LTE/DC-HSPA+ service?
• Is deploying a HSPA+ network the necessary first step to LTE?
• What has been the user experience with DC- HSPA+ and LTE?
• Why is LTE at 1800 MHz necessary in addition to LTE at 2600 MHz?
• How do you manage the mobility between 3G and LTE?
• How does LTE reduce the cost as traffic grows?
• What was the timeframe for LTE deployment?

Christian Daigneault, CTO, CSL

 10:10     Market Analysis: Overview of the Current LTE Climate in Asia & Global Perspective

• Overview of the LTE landscape
• What is the projected global mobile data growth?
• Where does Asia-Pacific rank in terms of LTE deployments?
• Where is the industry headed? LTE moving forward to 2015.

Jean-Pierre Bienaimé, Chairman, UMTS Forum

10:40     Morning Refreshments & Networking Break

11:10     What is the Profit Potential of LTE?

• What are the key drivers of growth for LTE deployment?
• When is the optimal time to invest in LTE?
• How can operators tackle increased OPEX requirements with decreasing ARPU?
• What additional revenue streams can be realized through LTE deployment

Wei-Shi Wu, Telecoms, Media & Transport Equity Analyst , Deutsche Bank

11:40     Keynote Panel: Realizing the Full Potential of LTE          

• Which steps are necessary to provide peak performance?
• Is there a business model for providing ultra-fast network performance?
• What is the limit to network investment before the cost/bit becomes unreasonable?
• Balancing short vs. long term objectives. How will the mobile broadband ecosystem develop over the next five years?
• What new services can LTE enable?

Jean-Pierre Bienaimé, Chairman, UMTS Forum
Christian Daigneault, CTO, CSL

12:25     Networking Lunch

13:40     TD-LTE in China and Abroad

• TD-LTE to 2015: The roadmap for mass scale adoption
• What are some of the advantages TDD holds over FDD?
• What is the migration path for WiMAX operators to TD LTE?

Dawei Zhang, Director China Mobile Research Institute

14:10     Key Results from Maxis’ LTE Field Trials

• Coverage at 2.6GHz
• Capacity comparison using different carrier bandwidths
• MIMO performance
• Self-Organizing Network Feature
• LTE Transport Requirements

Denis Seek, Head of Technology Development, Maxis

14:40     Afternoon Refreshments & Networking Break

15:10     LTE Intellectual Property Licensing and Fair, Reasonable, and Non Discriminatory Terms (FRAND)

• Mapping the LTE licensing procedure - who do you pay and how much do they want?
• Revealing the number of patents that are actually essential and what to do with the rest
• Case study of the definitional ambiguity of FRAND and the litigation process

Graham Bell, Managing Consultant, PA Consulting

15:40     The Reality & Challenge of LTE Deployment – How Well has LTE Really Promised?

• Mobile data traffic tsunami and threat to profitability
• Major issues to LTE deployment: network planning & migration, handset & device support, spectrum planning, business model
• Implications for operators

CW Cheung, Consulting Director Asia-Pacific, Ovum

16:10     Roundtable Session: What are the Main Challenges to Deploying LTE in your country?