Radio Signaling Fundamentals

Spectrum Use, Management and Availability

Standards Organizations

Network Technologies, Architectures, Generations & Standards

Terminals & Phones

Applications & Services

New Alternative Wireless Voice and Data Networks

Analysis of the Mobile and Cellular Industry and Key Carriers, Network Operators & Resellers

Examining The Future of Mobile Communications

• Examining the role of radio waves and signaling technologies in the mobile network
• Examining the general properties and principles of radio waves: how radio waves behave
  • Understanding how the environment impacts call quality, coverage, data rates, & connectivity
  • Assessing the factors that effect coverage and capacity
• Examining how radio waves carry information
  • Reviewing the methods and techniques used to encode and modulate voice and data information
• Analysis of major radio access technologies: Narrowband, spread spectrum and broadband
  • Understanding how each technology encodes and decodes information, separates callers, manages links, allots channels and capacity
  • Channel characteristics
  • Voice quality limitations
  • Security & privacy strengths & weaknesses
  • Data handling and throughput capabilities and limitations
• Listing of radio access technology by major carrier

• Overview and analysis of key regulatory organizations: Major activities, rulings, responsibilities, objectives and authorities
  • How spectrum is allocated and licensed
  • Assessing roles of other key players/influencers
• Analysis of relevant service band plans & allocations (current & planned)
  • Licensed Cellular, PCS & SMR
    • Specifications
    • Rules and regulations
    • Allocations by carrier
    • Planned and anticipated changes
  • Unlicensed Bands
    • Specifications
    • Rules and regulations
    • Planned and anticipated changes
• Analysis of new technologies for improving spectrum use and expand availability
  • Software Defined Radio
    • Overview
    • Technology
    • Benefits and limitations
    • Status
• Analysis of new rulings for improving spectrum use and expanding availability

• The deployment, upgrade and evolution of various types and generations of mobile and cellular networks
• The capabilities and competitiveness of various types and generations of mobile and cellular networks
• The services offered by the various types and generations of mobile and cellular networks
• The availability and quality of user services and applications
• Competition among carriers

• Definition and differentiation of various types of standards
  • Effect of standards on sales, costs and development time
  • The purpose, role and benefit of standards in mobile systems
  • Identification of the different types of standards
  • Understanding the relationship between the various standards and related radio and network technologies
• Review of the major mobile radio and network standards organizations
  • Authority, role, & status: government and industry support
  • Current activities and focus
  • Geographical influence and focus
  • Key members
  • Other key players & influencers
• The standards business: how standards organizations benefit from the development, promotion and supports of standards
• Is one standard better than the other? Examining the effect of various radio standards on a carrier's financial performance

• Radio and network technologies used
  • Basic network architecture and functions of major elements
  • How it achieves spectral efficiency
  • How it establishes and maintains connections to fast moving mobile devices
• Radio and network standards used
• Spectrum bands used
• Link budget
• How it separate callers, manages links, and allots capacity
• How it connects, routes, manages and authenticates voice communications
• How it connects, routes, manages and authenticates data communications
• Voice communications capacities and quality limitations
• Security & privacy strengths & weaknesses
• Comparisons of traffic capacity of major networks systems by spectrum bands
• Data communication handling and throughput capacities and limitations
• Evolution and upgrades
• Market status: deployment and implementation by carrier
• Bottom line: Is one type or generation of network really better than another?

• Architecture and major components
• Voice communications features, functions and capabilities
• Data communications features, functions and capabilities
• Multimedia features, functions and capabilities
• Network & upgrade compatibilities
• Evolution

• Type and generation of mobile and cellular network
• Key features, functions, characteristics, and capabilities
• Network & upgrade compatibilities
• Planned upgrades and evolution
• Market status: advanced services offerings by carrier

• Key Cellular Industry Metrics
  • Revenue: 1985 to 2006
  • Subscribers
    • Year end totals and growth: 1985 - 2006
    • Percentage of population
    • Minutes of usage per month
    • Factors effecting growth
  • Minutes of usage vs. Revenue per minute
• Mobile Phone Carrier Assessment
  • Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestments Analysis
  • Business, Technology, Marketing, Customer, and Service Issues & Hurdles
  • SWOT Analysis
  • Market and Competitive Responses
  • Resale/MVNO Market analysis
• Key Carrier Metrics
  • Subscribers Per Carrier
  • Market shares
    • Changes in market share
  • Select service revenues

• Examining and comparing the basic capabilities of alternative mobile data and voice networks in terms of:
  • Mobility and range
  • User data rate
  • Coverage area and domain size
• Clearwire
  • Background
  • Spectrum utilized
  • Services provided
  • Market focus
  • Network technologies used
  • Deployment status and plans
• Space Data Corp.
  • The concept of the disposable network
  • Background
  • Spectrum utilized
  • Services provided
  • Market focus
  • Network technologies used
  • Deployment status and plans
• WiMAX & 602.16 standards
  • Network architecture
  • Basic data rates, capabilities, capacities and coverage
  • Spectrum bands utilized
  • Capabilities and impact of WiMAX mobility
  • The Wireless Wars: WiMAX competitive strengths and weaknesses relative to cellular networks
    • Sprint's WiMAX plans & strategies
• TV Centric Mobile Networks
  • Qualcomm's MediaFLO Network
    • Network architecture
    • Examining MediaFLO technology
    • Basic data rates, capabilities, capacities and coverage
    • Spectrum bands utilized
    • How it interoperates with the cellular network
    • Advantages and disadvantages relative to cellular networks
    • Deployment status: trails, partners and markets
  • Crown Castle's Modeo
    • Network architecture
    • Basic data rates, capabilities, capacities and coverage
    • Spectrum bands utilized
    • How it interoperates with the cellular network
    • Advantages and disadvantages relative to cellular networks
    • Deployment status: trails, partners and markets

• How new networks will connect almost everything and everybody to everything and everybody
• How and why Wi-Fi/WiMAX and Cellular Convergence (WCC) and Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) are changing mobile communications
  • What is Wi-Fi/WiMAX and Cellular Convergence (WCC)? What is Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA)?
    • How they work
    • Impact on cellular networks, market and services
    • Understanding UMA Network Architecture and cellular network interconnection
    • Review of UMA/WCC phone requirements, capabilities and functions
    • How UMA/WCC benefits carriers
    • Quantifying the UMA/WCC market & forecast
  • Examination of T-Mobile's HotSpot @Home Service
    • Understanding the importance and benefits to T-Mobile
    • Current pricing
    • Status
    • Hardware and software capabilities
• Examining trends and changes in mobile and cellular phones and terminals
  • New types and capabilities
• Examining trends and changes in mobile and cellular services
  • New directions
  • Service convergence
• Examining the problems carriers are facing in providing new multimedia services
• Examining Fourth Generation (4G) cellular and mobile networks
  • What is a 4G network?
  • Overview of a 4G network architecture
  • How 4G differs from 2G and 3G networks and technologies
  • Convergence issues with 2G and 3G networks and technologies
  • How 3G networks are evolving to compete with 4G networks
  • 4G quality of service issues
  • IP implications
  • A review of the status and challenges facing 4G
    • Trails and tests
• Summary
  • Lessons learned
  • What growth will be driven by
  • The bottom line for future carrier revenue

To find out more about having Alexander Resources conduct this seminar at a time and place convenient to your organization call Jeff Stone at: 972-818-8225 or e-mail: JStone@AlexanderResources.com