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Transcript of Spectrum Review, Chris Althaus, RadComms 2014
A pre mobile world = telephony
At home
At work
On the move
And then…….
How things have changed !
25 YEARS - wow - what a ride…..
Meeting customer demand for quality user experiences with latest generation mobile devices, apps and services depends on industry investing $billions in:•latest generation technologies•network infrastructure and •radio-frequency spectrum
Infrastructure Challenges
Spectrum Review
Productivity – Innovation – Regulatory Reform
Customer Focus
Case Studies – learn from the past
Staged approach – start with a stocktake
Managing Change – flexibility and certainty
Case for fundamental reform
Mobile History in Australia
3G
CDMA
GSM
AMPS
First fully automaticmobile system
Australian Mobile
Subscriptions(Millions)
30
25
20
15
10
4G
1981 1987 1993 1999 2000 2003 2007 2011 2012 2013
Productivity gains: $12-17 billion by 2025
Reverse decline in productivity growth
2013 Mobile Nation Deloitte Access Economics
Mobile Nation
Towards 50 Billion Connections
Fixed
400 Million Households
Today
5 Billion Subscribers
Mobile
Full Service BroadbandTomorrow
50 Billion Devices
Source: Ericsson
Mobile Telecommunications Network Infrastructure
• Currently 18,000 radio sites
• 3,000 in feasibility, planning or acquisition at any one time
• Network deployment activity to expand and augment capacity and coverage can also raise community concern
• Public concerns can exist in relation to:– Visual amenity– Electromagnetic Energy - EME– Deployment consultation with community