Wireless Industry Update

Tuesday, July 24, 2007Penn Club, New York

                               

Hong Jiang, President and CEO, Montina

                                                           

Council Member Biography

Hong Jiang, Ph.D., is the President and Chief Executive Officer at Montina, a technology consulting and solution house. Dr. Jiang is a serial entrepreneur of several high-profile tech startups and has over 10 years of experience in the wireless industry.  She has raised venture capital funding for her past startups. She has worked extensively with mobile operators to bring multimedia content to handsets via new mobile broadcasting technologies such as BCMCS, MediaFLO, DMB, and DVB-H. She is experienced in mobile TV, MMS, PTT and WAP, TD-SCDMA, Wi-Fi, Wi-Max, CDMA, OFDMA, EVDO, WCDMA, and LTE technologies. She is an expert in the Chinese mobile industry including 3G wireless development and wireless value-add services.  Previously, Dr. Hong was the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Roundbox, a wireless infrastructure vendor; and Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Tatara Systems. She has held executive positions at Flarion Technologies and Lucent Technologies.

Table of Contents

► 3G licenses and deployment in China

► Ramifications of Qualcomm ruling

► Mobile broadcasting update

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Overview of 3G, 4G and WiMax 3G Deployment

US Qualcomm Verizon evolution plan Cingular

Europe Japan, Korea

4G (LTE) IP core network New air-interface technologies

OFDM MIMO

WiMax 802.16 d v.s. e Green-field deployment Different ecosystem vendors

Samsung, Motorola, Intel, Texas Instrument, ZTE Sprint Korean operators KT and SKT (WiBro) Clearwire

Mobile Broadcasting Market

Early Adopters Korea

DMB technology Telecom operators vs. incumbent broadcasters SKT partners with TU Media and offers satellite-

based mobile TV and radio services KTF partners with broadcasters and offers

terrestrial mobile TV and radio services

US Mobile Broadcast Market MediaFLO USA

Owns 700 MHz spectrum for mobile broadcasting License Builds mobile broadcasting network Aggregate content

Verizon and Cingular have signed up with MediaFLO Verizon launched FLO-based mobile TV services in select markets in

April Cingular is planning to roll out service by end of 2007

Gemstar TV Guide has a strong patent portfolio on time-grid TV guide format

for cable, mobile and IPTV

European Mobile Broadcast Market DVB-H technology vendors

Nokia UDcast Harris Texas Instrument

Slowed down by lack of spectrum In some countries, spectrum isn’t available until after

2009/2010 Telecom Italia and a couple of operators have deployed

mobile TV

Chinese Mobile Industry

Chinese Operators Mobile operator structure

China Mobile China Mobile Group controlled by the Chinese government China Mobile listed on Hong Kong stock exchange

China Unicom China Unicom Parent Company China Unicom listed on Hong Kong stock exchange

Landline operators China Telecom China Netcom

Chinese 3G Technologies TD-SCDMA

China Mobile Group is deploying TD-SCDMA EVDO

China Unicom is deploying EVDO Rev A in Macau

WCDMA Trials EDGE is deployed by China Mobile

Wireless Value-add Services Market Down cycle for existing WVAS providers

Tomonline Kongzhong Hurray Linktone

Opportunities for new growth after 3G service launch 3 mobile operators vs. 2 now Bigger data pipe and lower cost Cleared much froth in WVAS market in the past 18 months

Heavy-handed policies on WVASs by China Mobile Bankruptcy of small WVAS providers

New business models will emerge riding on new technology wave

Qualcomm

3G Evolution EVDO

Rev A, B, C WCDMA

HSDPA HSUPA LTE

4G Patent Position OFDM MIMO Acquisition of Flarion Technology

Forward Link Only (FLO) OFDM-based Forward link only broadcast channel Newport has a FLO license from Qualcomm Dual-mode FLO and DVB-H chip

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