GSM will continue to play a vital role beyond 2020 given its advantages in coverage, number of subscribers, low-cost terminals, roaming and M2M.
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THIN
LAYER
GSM
Population
coverage
2013
GSM has the widest reach
and continues to increase
COVER
GSM/EDGE
WCDMA/HSPA
~60%
LTE
~20%
>85%
Continue to
grow
14XGSM data
since 2008
GSM ONLY
620M
WCDMA
560M
LTE
250M
CDMA
130M
Highest number
of New terminals
shipped 2013
– GSM only
M2M
of M2M devices are
GSM ONLY globally
80%4 billion
GSM ONLY
subscriptions
fast MBB expansion
voice
machine
high speech quality
and efficiency
M2M
GSM - baseline for
Internet of Things and
Networked Society
spectrum
refarming
mobility everywhere
FALLBACK
GSM
Beyond
2020
GSM will continue to play
a vital role beyond 2020
given its advantages in
coverage, number of sub-
scribers, low-cost terminals,
roaming and M2M.
3key
areas
10x
data
50%
lessspectrum
3xvoice
1. GSM network efficiency
3. GSM automation
Fast process, stable network
performance and low OPEX
Automatic
30%energy
savings
Fully integrated multistandard RAN
2. No GSM unique HW
cabinets
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shelf