Journey to 5G – T-Mobile US Perspective

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Karri Kuoppamaki

Vice President, Technology Development & Strategy

65MRevolutionizing the Wireless Business

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JUN. 2016CUSTOMERS THANKED

NOV. 2015FREE VIDEO STREAMING

Revolutionizing the Wireless Industry with Un-

carrier Moves Solving customer pain points through simplicity,

transparency and with ground breaking innovation to disrupt the status quo SEP. 2016

T-Mobile ONE

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Continued growth and momentum – 3Q2016 results

851,000 Branded

Postpaid

2MTotal

684,000Branded

Postpaid

Phones

Financial View

Customer ViewNet Adds

69.4

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LTE

UMTS / GSM

UMTS/GSM Roaming

Fastest and Fastest Growing LTE

Tremendous Network

Performance

Speed leadership for last 11

quarters!

312M Covered Americans with

225M Extended Range LTE

(700MHz)

99.7% of Verizon pop

coverage

231M Wideband LTE covered

pops

Wideband LTE has carrier

Average 4G LTE Download and Upload Speeds - 3Q16

T-Mobile Network Coverage – 3Q16

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Downlink

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Most Advanced LTE Network

Relentlessly Driving LTE

Evolution

Nation’s densest, highest-capacity

LTE network

more spectrum and cell sites per

customer than either Verizon or

AT&T

LTE-Advanced started with Carrier

Aggregation in 2014

Recent LTE-A deployments include

first commercial deployment of 4x4

MIMO smartphones globally, 3CA

and 256QAM

Firstwith HD Voice, and first to launch it nationwide, for crystal clear call quality

Firstto launch VoLTEfor faster call connections, fast LTE data speeds while on a

call, HD Voice and seamless transitions between 2G/4G and LTE networks

Firstwith Wi-Fi Calling worldwide allowing you to move seamlessly between our

LTE network and any available Wi-Fi connection (VoLTEw/ eSRVCC).

Firstwith RCS-based Advanced Messaging for rich 1 on 1 and group messaging,

including near real-time chat right out of the box

Firstwith Video Calling so you can see and hear family and friends right from your

device’s dialer and right out of the box using LTE or Wi-Fi

Firstand only to offer free 4G LTE CellSpots, the first-ever 4G LTE mini-tower

available from a U.S. wireless provider for full-bar T-Mobile LTE coverage

throughout your home, small business or virtually anywhere you need it

Firstto trial deployment of License Assisted Access, an exciting innovation that

will increase network efficiency and throughput speeds using unlicensed

spectrum

Firstwith Enhanced Voice Services, which improves voice call reliability and

fidelity over HD Voice

Firstwith 4x4 MIMO (Multi-In Multi-Out), which doubles speeds over 4x2 MIMO,

allowing four radios at the cell site to send and receive signals with four antennas

on the smartphone.

Firstwith 256 QAM(Quadrature Amplitude Modulation), which provides a higher

resolution data signal for increased speeds.

Firstwith 3 Channel Carrier Aggregation, which combines available spectrum

across three channels for increased speeds.

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Un-carrier Network List of Firsts

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LTE Evolution is an integral part of 5G

5G and 4G LTE work together

4G 5G

5G Radio Access is not a standalone technology,

through multi-connectivity a 5G device can be served

by various technologies (e.g. LTE and 5G)

simultaneously

5G builds on 4G LTE

Coverage and Capacity

Complementary Flexibility

“5G Network”

5G Radio Access complements LTE-Advanced, and

provides additional capacity, speed and enriched

capability to enhance existing use cases and enable

new ones

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5G shines in new spectrum bands, large

bandwidths 5G will extend wireless into ultra-

high bandwidths mmWave spectrum, 10-100 times higher

frequency than today’s operations

mmWave bands provides access to large amounts of spectrum 10-100 times wider bandwidths than used

today, > multi Gbps data throughput

High frequency enables small antennas Large antenna arrays enables sophisticated

Beamforming/steering which unlocks the efficient use of mmW spectrum for Mobile Systems

60GHz mmWave antenna

FCC Initial 5G Spectrum Bands

Band Bandwidth

28 GHz 850 MHz

37 GHz 1600 MHz

39 GHz 1400 MHz

64-71 GHz 7 GHz

(unlicensed)

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Building Network Architecture for 5G today

Small Cells For network densification

Core Network Transformation Further evolution of LTE Core

Network Architecture Virtualization and Orchestration

‘Edge Intelligence’

Transport For high capacity connectivity

5G

Small Cells

Core Network

Transport

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But when will 5G be here?

Standards based 5G is moving forward 3GPP work started in 2015 Phase 1 standards, with focus on enhanced Mobile Broadband targeted to be completed mid-2018 First deployments typically 12-18 months after standards have been completed

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022

5G Standard Study Items

4G LTE Evolution to continue in parallel with 5G

Phase 1 Phase 2 5G Standard Evolution

5G Phase 2 Launch

Development Phase

Technology Proof of

Concepts

Emerging Phase

Pre-Standard

Trials/Deployments

Maturing Phase

Standards Compliant

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5G Phase 1 Launch

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5G Use Cases influence the journey

5G is build for flexibility and variety of use cases We see 5G’s real potential in the

mobile internet and consumer space, but 5G also allows us to expand to new services and use cases Mobile VR and AR, Mobile High

Definition video, Ultra-high speed mobile broadband…

5G Use cases will influencethe 5G network and service architecture

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Summary – The journey to 5G has already begun

LTE Evolution

Densification and Transport

Spectrum

Network Architecture

LTE Evolution drives overall network

efficiency

LTE-Advanced and beyond

5G breaks into new spectrum

frontiers

mmWave Spectrum

Network Architecture well suited for

future use cases and services

Virtualization and Orchestration

Network slicing and Edge

intelligence

Network Densification with small

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