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APPENDIX A: DETAILED MEMBER PROGRESS AND PLANS ON RELEASE 99 THROUGH
RELEASE 10: UMTS‐HSPA+ AND LTE/LTE‐ADVANCED
The following sections were contributed by companies represented in the working group for this 4G
Americas white paper. This is not a comprehensive document of all the commercial progress made to
date by the mobile broadband community, but is representative of some of the activities by leading
members of the UMTS-HSPA and LTE ecosystem.
Alcatel-Lucent is a major player in the UMTS-HSPA market, with one of the industry’s most
comprehensive UMTS-HSPA portfolios that can support deployments covering all markets and frequency
bands (including AWS and 900 MHz spectrum bands).
Alcatel-Lucent currently has 66 UMTS-HSPA customers in 47 countries. The company has a strong
presence in the most dynamic and highest-volume UMTS markets including the U.S. (with AT&T) and
Korea (with SKT & KT) who address over 70 million subscribers. More than 33 percent of HSPA
connections worldwide came from four major operators: AT&T in the U.S., KT and SKT in Korea and
Vodafone Italy who all selected Alcatel-Lucent as their partner (Wireless Intelligence Q2 2010).
Alcatel-Lucent is best positioned to help its customers in addressing the mobile data explosion and smart
phone behavior specificities leveraging on its High Leverage Network architecture including excellent
optimization features, multi-carrier traffic balancing, smart management of signaling load and topology
adjustment (small cells). The company is also leveraging its wireline leadership to evolve its customers’
networks to an all-wireless IP network. Alcatel-Lucent is the only mobile equipment vendor with both the
portfolio and the experience needed to transition wireless networks to all-IP to enable its wireless
customers to offer multimedia and differentiated services while optimizing costs.
Alcatel-Lucent is working closely with its customers to smoothly migrate their networks towards HSPA+
and LTE. Part of Alcatel-Lucent’s converged RAN solution, the company’s existing hardware is already
HSPA+ (Dual Carrier and MIMO) and LTE capable and the activation is done on a software basis only
(Rel-7). Moreover, Alcatel-Lucent is a dynamic force in the proliferation of small cells in a converged
broadband environment, extending the technology from residential gateways to the enterprise and into
the metropolitan areas. Through a series of 12 new small cell contract wins in only three months, Alcatel-
Lucent is clearly establishing itself as the leading end-to-end Femto/small cell vendor, currently holding
more than 20 trials and 14 commercial deployment agreements (including contracts with Vodafone UK
and Etisalat in the UAE).
Alcatel-Lucent has also established a clear leadership position in the LTE market, having been
selected so far by seven customers for commercial deployments, including two of the world’s largest
service providers (Verizon Wireless and AT&T), and being involved in 58 trials worldwide. Almost half of
these 58 trial customers are nontraditional 2G/3G customers of Alcatel-Lucent. Trials are conducted in
both FDD and TDD spectrum in all the major frequency bands. NTT DOCOMO also selected Alcatel-
Lucent to build the mobile backhaul network to support its LTE service in Japan.
In its global Pubic Safety segment, Alcatel-Lucent has demonstrated the readiness of LTE to deliver
mission-critical communications for public safety through a series of industry firsts in the United
States, leading the way toward the establishment of a nationwide LTE broadband network; First to
complete a data call over Band 14, the spectrum earmarked for public safety agencies in the US: First to
join the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Telecommunications and
Information Administration (NTIA): First to light up a true 700 MHz Band 14 network at the Public Safety
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