Mobile Broadband China 2010

July 1^st - 2^nd

Shanghai, China

Conference Description:

Chinese mobile operators are in the first phase of a 3G network deployment program that will cover more people and a greater land area than in any other market. With the market forecast to grow from four million 3G subscribers in 2009 to a staggering 318 million by 2014, the ability to rapidly and efficiently scale networks in the core, backhaul and radio access domains is vital.

This Light Reading Mobile Broadband China conference will provide unique insights into the experience of 3G operators throughout the world in capitalizing on the major new revenue opportunity presented by mobile broadband, while also outlining best practices in cost-optimization to safeguard profitability. The experiences of other operators with EV-DO, WiMAX and HSPA will be presented by Heavy Reading’s leading analysts.

Main Streams of the tracks:

• In the Radio Access Network, to look into the current and emerging radio base station technologies and will filter out some of the myths from the realities regarding future performance enhancements and cost efficiencies in the air interface and in base station design.
• In Backhaul Network, we will examine the opportunities for Chinese operators to leverage their extensive fiber footprint. With fiber deployed to a majority of its cell sites, China has a big advantage relative to most western countries in transitioning to the higher capacity, lower cost packet backhaul networks essential to sustaining profitability data volumes increase.
• In Packet Core, to develop perspectives on the prospective ‘collapse’ of the boundaries between the mobile packet core and the backhaul network in the transition to LTE and the implications for the cost and performance metrics that will underpin a mass market in mobile broadband services.