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As we approach the middle of 2010, then, it’s worthwhile revisiting the state of the LTE global network deployment.

Operators are still looking for vendors with solutions that allow LTE to be launched as an overlay or as part of a 2G/3G network renewal. Th ey’re still looking to pair LTE launches with new applications and services (including voice, some day).

The positioning of 4G has been a real point of debate among operators. Last week MetroPCS has launched world’s first LTE commercial handsets on its new LTE network with positioning as new 4G service against its 3G with unlimited data, text, voice, Video and new content agreements with real etc. We witnessed Sprint doing something similar with their new WiMAX based 4G core. We saw high average data consumption at Clearwire (currently at 7 GB/mo) – clearly a precursor of what’s to come with new 4G networks.

Alcatel Lucent, Huawei, Ericsson , NSN ,Samsung and ZTE are competing to become market leaders in LTE based 4G Infrastructure. However, it’s much too early to translate commercial or trial reference numbers into clear indications of market leadership – though they may well support mind share leadership.

Source: Current Analysis

LTE Early Deployments and Market Drivers

In any new market, the first commercial deployments are always highly scrutinized; they provide insights into how a technology works, what it can deliver, its state of maturity, and how future launches can be improved. LTE is no different, meaning all eyes will be on launches in the Nordics (Telia Sonera), North America (Verizon Wireless, Metro PCS) and Asia (DoCoMo, KDDI).

Data Cards and Dongles. Talk with any operator or vendor involved with LTE and you will hear the technology positioned as a solution for addressing growing mobile traffic to PCs, laptops, smartphones, featurephones, consumer electronics, sensors and everything in between. For the next year, however, data cards and USB dongles will dominate usage, based on the relative lack of device diversity in the early days of a market along with early users focused primarily on laptop and netbook data access.

Data Services. Th e focus of early LTE device availability on data devices (axiomatic of any new mobile broadband technology) implies that early services will focus on data. More specifically, it implies that despite operator and vendor eff orts to standardize voice delivery over LTE networks, voice services won’t be an integral part of most LTE off ers for the next 12 months or so. Where they are, they will come thanks to existing 2G/3G coverage and CS fallback.

North America & Asia. The Nordics may have enjoyed the world’s first commercial LTE services, but broader momentum will first register in North America and Asia. Credit relatively new HSPA (and HSPA+) networks in Europe and Latin America along with relatively recent (or future) spectrum availability that will make commercial LTE in markets like Europe, and India a medium to long-term proposition.

Biz Model Explorations. Where LTE services (trial, commercial or otherwise) are launched, operators will leverage the opportunity to test out their assumptions around the technology from a business perspective. How will users react to policy decisions around usage caps? What applications will dominate usage? How will LTE free capacity (or drive usage) on 2G and 3G networks? Will indoor vs. outdoor usage patterns mimic 2G and 3G? We are already seeing these details from the early experience of TeliaSonera; and more of these findings – benefitting from a greater sample of users – will follow.

Operators Buying Criteria

Operators planning on LTE deployments in the near-term need to query their network vendors on their support for voice thanks to circuit-switched fallback (CSFB). Where the IMS-based VOLTE has become the de facto LTE voice plan for the industry, it’s not going to be a near-term option for most operators. Few vendors, however, have done much to highlight their CSFB capabilities or commercial solutions – making it key for operators to verify them.

• Like any new mobile broadband technology, data devices will dominate initial LTE launches. For LTE to become the mass-market success operators envision for it, the technology needs to move beyond PC cards and dongles. Speeding this process will require operators to make their demands well known, working closely with vendors to drive supply.

• Operators need to consider leveraging LTE launches to introduce new policy tools into their business. EV-DO, HSPA and HSPA+ launches have taught the market that fully monetizing mobile broadband services will require new ways of charging for usage, throttling usage and offerring tiered experiences. It may be diffi cult to add these new policies on top of existing services – making the launch of new network like LTE a logical starting point.

• WiMAX operators may to consider TD-LTE as a future network evolution. With vendors reiterating their commitment to 802.16m, there’s no need for operators to worry that WiMAX as a technology will cease to advance. Regardless, broad mobile operator interest virtually ensures that LTE will enjoy scale and ecosystem efficiencies over WiMAX – with TD-LTE offering a solution for WiMAX operator unpaired spectrum assets. To this end, it makes sense for operators to hedge their bets with solutions and vendors that can support both technologies.

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( View expressed here are my own and does not reflect my employers opinion )

China Mobile, Vodafone, AT&T, Verizon and NTT DOCOMO retain global top5 positions: From the revenue perspective, the $50 billion revenue club is retained by China Mobile, Vodafone, AT&T Mobility, and Verizon Wireless and NTT DOCOMO.

China and India demonstrated strong growth in absolute subscriber additions: The Global Wireless Markets continued to grow rapidly especially in India and China where the carriers (combined) are adding almost 30M new subscriptions every month.  China touched 757M wireless subscriptions while India crossed 525 M by the end of 2009.   China Mobile Reported highest wireless revenues (16B US$) followed by Verizon and AT&T in Q1, 2010.

China Mobile announced highest Q1, 2010 wireless revenues: China Mobile Reported consolidated wireless revenues of over US$ 16 Billion in Q1, 2010. Total number of 3G subscribers is reported somewhere around 7.60 Million. China Mobile’s aggregate ARPU during Q1, 2010 was $ 10.32.

Verizon and AT&T surpassed DOCOMO to become top three operators in the world. Verizon and AT&T reported strong quarters and generated revenues in excess of 13.5 Billion USD. AT&T led the customer addition during Q1, 2010 with net addition of 1.9 Million consumers during this period. Verizon wireless acquired 1.5 Million wireless customers in Q1, 2010.

Softbank reported over 50% of their revenues from data services: NTT DOCOMO reported steady growth in customers and data revenues. Data as a percentage of ARPU crossed over 45% during first quarter for DOCOMO. Softbank reported very strong data usage with over 50% or wireless revenues generated from data services. KDDI reported similar trend with over 42% of their revenues were originated from data services. AT&T and Verizon topped data ARPU revenues in US and announced over 30% of their wireless revenues from data services.

Bharti Airtel of India acquired Kuwait-based Zain Group to become the 5th largest telecom group in the world (at the end of 2009, it was 9^th). There are now 14 telecom groups with over 100M or more subscriptions. While China Mobile’s ARPU is 1/5th of its western counterparts, it operates its business at significantly higher revenues. Indian operator’s wireless revenues were 1/10^th of their western counterparts.

Data ARPU continues to fuel growth for operators in Q1, 2010. NTT DOCOMO was followed by AT&T , Verizon Wireless, China Mobile, AT&T, KDDI, Sprint Nextel, Softbank Mobile, T-Mobile USA, O2 UK, and China Unicom to round up the top 10 operators by wireless data service revenues.

Globally operators are aiming to reverse the decline of Aggregate ARPU through continued increase in packet ARPU. Most of the operators in the developed nations (DOCOMO, AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Softbank, KDDI, and Sprint etc) are contemplating future strategies to boost data revenues such that the decline in voice revenues is at least compensated for. There are very few operators who have experienced increase in overall ARPU in Q1, 2010.Data revenues for most of the Japanese operators are expected to supersede voice in early 2011.

Strong growth communicated by operators in India , China, US and Japan : While the countries like US, Japan, China, and India showed very little signs of pullback, most of Europe and the developing world experienced a decline in overall service revenues in 2009. Additionally, all the major markets have their data contribution percentages above 10% now. Major US and European operators are touching their 30% marks and Japanese operators are nearing 46% levels.

Operators from Japan and US reported highest aggregate wireless ARPU in Q1, 2010. Verizon Wireless, NTT DOCOMO, AT&T, Softbank and KDDI reported highest wireless data revenues among other global top 10. Most of the major operators around the world have double digit percentage contribution to their overall ARPU from data services. Operators like DoCoMo, and Softbank are over 46%. KDDI, 3 Australia, 3 Italy, 3 UK, Vodafone UK, O2 UK, Telstra, and 3 Sweden exceeded 35% and many others are on the verge of crossing the 30% mark

Lowest aggregate wireless ARPUs were observed by Indian and Chinese operators, however carriers are adding roughly 30 Million subscribers in India and China. China Mobile revealed highest number of net subscriber additions in Q1, 2010 at a monthly ARPU (US $10) roughly 1/5th of their western counterparts.

Smartphones with touchscreens, Wi-Fi connectivity, and advanced Operating Systems are growing in popularity^[1]. In May 2010, smartphones generated 46% of traffic in the operator’s network, up from 22% two years ago. 24% of wireless traffic in the US came over WiFi networks.

The iPhone is by far the leading devices; however, 7 of the top 10 Smartphone’s run on Android: By March 2010, there were 34 Android devices from 12 manufacturers made available to consumers. The Motorola Droid was the leading Android handset by May 2010 capturing 6.8% market share of Smartphone segment.

Android continues significant momentum and surpassed Symbian OS in Smartphone segment: Android operating system surpassed Symbian OS in Q1, 2010 to become second most widely used mobile platform for Smartphones. Apple iOS is leading mobile Smartphone OS market share, however steady decrease in market share were observed in last two quarters. Android surpassed Symbain in December 2010 to take become second most widely used Smartphone OS.

The launch of new Android devices over the past year has led to rapid growth in the Android platform. Traffic from the Android platform has grown 29% month-over-month since May 2009.

In Q1, 2010 Smartphone’s generated highest amount of web Traffic: Out of all mobile handsets category, Smartphone were generating over 45% of traffic consistently in last two quarters making itself as most preferred devices for web and applications.

The iOS and Android platforms show a higher usage than share of handsets sold, primarily due to strong app usage. Users of the iOS and Android platforms regularly spend at least 79 minutes a day using apps. Consumers on the iOS and Android platforms download approximately 9 apps a month reported by AdMob.

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In the recent years, the ARPU from voice service has been declining due to the factors of discounted services and shorter phone calls. DOCOMO has seen downward trend in aggregate ARPU and is planning to offset this by taking steps to increase packet ARPU. In FY 2010, the ARPU from packet service is expected to surpass voice ARPU. To strengthen packet based services and reverse downtrend of aggregate ARPU, DoCoMo is planning to promote usage of flat-rate service. In FY 2009, the revenues from voice declined 12.9% year-on-year and aggregate ARPU declined 6.3% year-on-year. Packet revenue grew 2.9% year-on year and expected to surpass voice ARPU in FY, 2010. DOCOMO is aiming to increase packet ARPU by 4.5% in FY 2010.

In FY 2010, revenue from data is expected to reach $ 29.30 surpassing voice ARPU of 29.10.

Initiatives to strengthen Data Services by introduction of Flat Rate Service: DoCoMo has taken initiatives to expand its packet usage to offset declining Voice ARPU by promoting monthly flat rate services like i-mode. I-mode packet service allows monthly flat rate which varies in accordance with monthly usage. The operator in July 2009, as well introduced a flat rate data plan for data cards to enhance its data services. It aims to increase packet flat rate subscription by more than 6 million to reach 31.70 million subscriptions in FY10, i.e. 63% of total consumers.

Promote packet communications by enhanced services and content: DoCoMo is working to expand its lineup services and content. The operator will take steps to expand subscriptions and usage among a broad range of customers by expanding to areas closely linked to lifestyles, such as tourism and health care. Mobile phone usage is expanding rapidly with the availability of higher speed networks and more advanced handsets, but most of the video content that is available for handsets user is not optimized to smaller screens. DOCOMO is moving ahead with development of content that suits well for mobile phones and smaller screens ( about 3 to 4 inch). BeeTV launched in May, 2009 was one of those initiatives. DOCOMO is developing handsets functions which would be more suitable for replaying videos and other contents by introducing inline Flash.

Promote smart phone adoptions to strengthen data services. The market strategy of promoting smart phones with advanced functions rivaling those of mobile PC’s, such as general purpose operating systems, Internet connections capabilities, schedule managers, and personnel information management, as well as PC data cards, is positioned as an important part of efforts to expand packet ARPU. DOCOMO, principally targeting enterprise demand to strengthen its promotion of smart phones and data cards for PCs.

Initiatives of more advanced networks by introducing LTE: In 2009, DOCOMO introduced HSUPA services, which has the capability to deliver maximum uplink transmission rate of 5.7 Mbps . DOCOMO plans to launch LTE based services in December 2010. It aims to install nearly 1000 Base Station in FY 2010. The rollout will be progressive with high demand areas (Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya) will be covered first using an overlay approach with existing 3G areas. Downlink speeds up to 37.5 Mbps will be offered at the time of launch. DOCOMO plans to introduce data devices first and smart phones are scheduled in 2011.

In FY 2010, DOCOMO will Launch LTE in high demand areas (Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya). It aims to install 1000 Base Stations in FY 2010

Verizon’s LTE Plans on track, all set to launch services in November 2010. Verizon is all set to launch LTE in 25-30 markets before year end (Boston and Seattle by 15^th , November) , covering about 100m citizens.  It is expected that operator will launch 4G iphone in Q1, 2011. Verizon and AT& T now controls over 69% of US mobile data market and  has seen biggest jump in data revenues along with Softbank, AT&T and DoCoMo(11%) in first Half 2010.

AT&T announced their 4G partners to build LTE network. AT&T announced their plans to build LTE network, and contracted Alcatel Lucent and Ericsson as their LTE equipment suppliers.  However the operator believes that LTE has its own time to come and may not be ready for a large scale deployment in near future. The operator is adopting a middle strategy to upgrade their current network to HSPA+ and LTE later.

T-Mobile all set with HSPA+ to answer immediate data demand. T-Mobile has rolled out HSPA+ services in more than 25 major metropolitan areas in last four month’s time to extend its 3G networks which will support 21 Mbps peak data rates. Their new HSPA+ network covers 75 million populations, and plans to cover 185 million people by the end of this year.

Clearwire has been expanding the network so fast that it has become the biggest construction company in the US. Clearwire strives to reach 2 Million customers by end of 2010. The network is now available in 44 markets in US covering over 50 million people. Things will get really interesting later in 2010 when Clearwire and Sprint take their 4G mobile broadband network to New York City, Los Angeles, Boston, Denver, Minneapolis, the San Francisco Bay Area, Miami, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Pittsburgh for a 120 million person strong data footprint.

Reliance Industry marked its entry in telecom with nationwide BWA spectrum in India, after completion of five years agreement with younger brother. The operator paid close to $2.6 billion to win 2.3 GHz ( 20 MHz) nationwide spectrum in the country.

Qualcomm pumped $1 billion to protect TD-LTE: Qualcomm won 2.3 (20 MHz) GHz spectrum in four telecom circles of India in the recently held BWA spectrum auctions. Qualcomm’s final bid was INR 4912.54 crore or approximately USD 1.045 billion.

The Battle of LTE and WIMAX is fierce in India after auctions: Qualcomm protected entry of WiMAX in India by winning four circles and all the other players like Aircell ,Bharti, Augere and Tikona is watching Reliance controlled Infotel’s move for BWA technology choice.

Infotel holds the future of WiMAX in India. The WiMAX camp spearheaded by Samsung, Hauwei and ZTE is convincing Infotel for immediate WiMAX deployment to enter market in similar timelines as 3G. Their strategy is not impending from the fact that they do not have a LTE roadmap, but rather their eagerness to enter the agreement with Infotel and secure their mobile data business and do away with competition from Ericsson, ALU and Nokia.  Ericsson, Nokia , ALU and Qualcomm is taking every possible step to avoid WiMAX deployment in India.

LTE TDD Devices Availability for Indian BWA Operators: Our research indicates that the commercial availability of TD-LTE chipsets will start as early as Q3, 2010 by handful of suppliers and majority would be ready by Q1-2011 or later. Most reasonably it will at least take three to six months for ODM’s to supply finished products.  Expect first commercial shipment of TD-LTE chipsets after Q2/Q3-2011.

Teliasonera became world’s first operator to launch LTE network. Teliasonera launched two commercial markets last year covering about 400,000 people in the two countries’ capitals, Oslo and Stockholm. TeliaSonera has nationwide 4G/LTE licenses in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark. During the first half year 2010, TeliaSonera has also opened up 4G for pilot customers in Finland, Denmark, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia.

NTT DOCOMO LTE Plans on track, all set to launch services in December 2010: NTT DoCoMo has been at the cutting edge of the mobile data evolution by creating new markets and it is aiming to launch its LTE service in December 2010. DoCoMo plans to invest in the region somewhere around JPY343 billion in its new LTE network. The operator has indicated installation of 20,700 Base Station covering 51.10% of area by 2014. It strives to acquire massive 17.7 Million consumers in their new 4G network by 2014.

KDDI announced LTE plans and contracted Motorola and NEC to supply LTE equipment. KDDI Corp. has awarded contracts to Motorola and NEC Corp for the supply of base stations and ancillary equipment to build its next generation long term evolution (LTE) network. KDDI announced its plan stating investment of 515 Billion Yen in new LTE Network which will start in November 2011 and likely to reach full coverage by 2012. The operator has indicated installation of 29,361 Base Station covering 96.5% of area by 2014. It strives to acquire 9.84 Million consumers in their new 4G network by 2014.

UQ WIMAX growing steadily, 7000 base stations live on air. UQ Communications is already ahead of its deployment schedule as compared to LTE, and plans to cover 55% of the Japanese population (most major cities) by the end of March 2010, with the goal of covering more than 90% of the Japanese population by FY2012.

Softbank of Japan looks set to be the first major operator (outside of Philippines) with more revenues coming from data services than voice. Softbank is upgrading its 3G networks to support 42 Mbps Dual Carrier HSPA to cater its rapidly growing data business.  Softbank plans to invest in the region somewhere around JPY207.3 billion in its new LTE network.  The operator has indicated installation of 9,000 LTE Base Station covering 60.63% of the area by 2014. It strives to acquire 5.41 Million consumers in their new 4G network by 2014.

LTE-Advanced & IEEE 802.16m WiMAX both officially selected as 4G standard by ITU . LTE-Advanced and IEEE 802.16m WiMAX satisfied the ITU requirements as 4G standard, effectively being selected as the ITU 4G standards during ITU-R WP5D meeting which was held from June 9 through 16 in Vietnam

Korea Telecom plans LTE in 2011, it continues to expand WiBRO in five metropolitans and plans 27,000 WiFi Hotspots by September 2010. KT announced plans in May 2010 that it will work with electronic giants such as Samsung and LG-Ericsson for a high-speed LTE network. Investment for the LTE network could start in 2011 .

New investments are expected in Korea to promote WiBRO Adoption. KT to expand WiBRO in five metropolitans markets and established a joint venture with Samsung and Intel to promote WiBRO.

CMCC begins LTE trials with Shanghai expo, but for all practical purpose may only start large scale LTE deployment in 2012. CMCC kicked of TD-LTE network with shanghai expo. Motorola, ALU, Huawei, Sequans, ALU, ST Ericsson, ZTE , Nokia and Ericsson is testing their equipment.

CMCC rolled out 108,000 TD-SCDMA base stations and acquired 7.69 million 3G subscribers.   China Mobile set up 108,000 base stations in total, with a combined investment of over CNY90 billion (USD13.16 billion) by the end of March 2010 claimed 7.69 million 3G subscribers, from its total user base of 780 million.

Download Report : Global 4G operator update 1H-2010

With over 70 mobile WiMAX deployments worldwide in 2.3 , 2.5 and 3.5 GHz and continuously growing , the role of WiMAX 2.0 is pivotal for operators to support humongous projected growing data demands and stay competitive in mobile data networks. The time to market and early competitiveness of WiMAX release 1.0 was successful in getting initial attraction from operators but there triumph will largely depend in continuous innovation and new suite of standards which will enable affordable and reasonable data services for their consumers.

16m will play important role to provide evolutionary path to Mobile WiMAX Release 1.0 operators to remain competitive in ever challenging mobile data networks and provide a platform for delivery of new services. It will also play an important role in shaping 4G mobile networks by supporting IMT-A requirement by updating its IEEE Std 802.16 standards to meet the requirements of next generation mobile networks targeted by the cellular layer of IMT-Advanced.

WiMAX 2.0 or 16m standards work will be completed by the end of this year and the first 16m release will be available for industry by July, 2010[1]. Based on the inputs from supplier and past standardization experience it appears that operators will have WiMAX 2.0 systems for deployment as early as 2012. Work on the standard has been progressing very quickly, the experiences with 802.16e and even some of the learning’s from LTE  has enabled quick completion of standards.

Following are the key vital features of WiMAX 2.0 which is incorporated in standards and presented in this whitepaper.

• New spectrum in FDD and TDD band
• Support of IMT-A frequency bands
• At least two fold increase in average data throughput from the current Release
• Advanced interference management methods to support true reuse 1 deployments as compared to current reuse 3 deployments
• Round trip access latency is reduced to less than 10-20 ms levels which will allow more demanding services like online gaming etc.
• Support for self organizing networks
• Support for femtocells
• Support of Relays stations
• Support for Location services
• Support for enhanced multicast and broadcast services
• Multicarrier aggregation upto 100 MHz
• Co-existence of 16e and 16m base stations and backward compatibility
• 2-3 fold improvement in VoIP calls per MHz ( Optimized for voice)
• Coexistence of multi-technologies like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and WiMAX
• Inter Radio Access technology handovers( 3GPP)
• Improved scheduling and new QoS class

It is more apt for operators who have already deployed their networks with release 1.0 to migrate to WiMAX2.0  as the release 1.0 devices are backward compatible with 16m systems and the performance of 16m systems is adequate to support the requirements of IMT-A and other competing technologies like LTE and LTE-A.

While this paper will cover all the aspects of 16m performance and features for operators , aspects of coexistence of release 1.0 and release 2.0 systems  is presented for WiMAX operators.

Download white paper here:  WiMAX 2.0 for operator v1.0

3GPP Mobile Broadband Innovation Path to 4G: Release 9, Release 10 and Beyond: HSPA+, SAE/LTE and LTE-Advanced, is a comprehensive resource intended to assist members of the wireless industry as well as interested members of the general public in understanding details of the work in 3GPP on Release 9 and Release 10. In addition, the report further describes the features of Release 8 that were closed in March 2009.

Release 9, which is targeted for completion by March 2010, will provide increased feature functionality and performance enhancements to both HSPA and LTE. The report reviews additional multi-carrier and MIMO options for HSPA and features and enhancements to support emergency services, location services and broadcast services for LTE. Other Release 9 enhancements include those to support Home NodeB/eNodeB (i.e. femtocells), Self-Organizing/Self-Optimizing Networks (SON) and the evolution of the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) architecture.
While work for Release 9 is nearing completion, significant progress has already been made in 3GPP on work for Release 10, which includes LTE-Advanced. In fact, 3GPP already submitted a proposal in October 2009 based on LTE-Advanced for the IMT-Advanced evaluation and certification process led by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The ITU has defined requirements that will officially define and certify technologies as IMT-Advanced, or 4G, and is expected to evaluate submitted proposals by standards organizations for potential certification in the 2010 timeframe; certified 4G/IMT-Advanced technology specifications are projected to be published by early 2011.

As part of Release 10, some of the key LTE-Advanced technology enhancements include carrier aggregation, multi-antenna enhancements and relays. Assuming LTE-Advanced is certified to be IMT-Advanced compliant, 3GPP targets completion of the Release 10 specification by year-end 2010.
“The white paper by 3G Americas provides an excellent overview of the work by 3GPP in determining the standards on the path to 4G,” Scrase said.

The popular white paper, 3GPP Mobile Broadband Innovation Path to 4G: Release 9, Release 10 and Beyond: HSPA+, SAE/LTE and LTE-Advanced, was written collaboratively by members of 3G Americas and is available for free downloadon the 3G Americas website at www.3gamericas.org.

Executive SummaryWireless infrastructures have emerged as an effective option of connecting to an ever-evolving expansive information network such as the Internet. Such infrastructures, due to their inherent advantages, promise a renewed future in terms of offering improved and exciting services to the existing users. As a result, stakeholders are willing to encourage the success of such infrastructures supporting “Internet on the move”.This promise is not without a concrete platform. In the recent past, there have been ground-breaking innovations such as 3G, WiMax and the like that could support disparate forms of content. The practicality of their implementation resulting into improved usage is yet to be witnessed, however. Similar developments have been witnessed in the domain of devices that are designed to support such networks. There is a parallel and equitable importance of providing relevant content using the devices and the underlying infrastructure. Given the high capabilities, a wide variety of content can be provided to the users. Considering the absence of deployable infrastructure and upcoming developments in bandwidth auction, the jury is going to be out there for some time. On the demand side, our current estimates show that there are 2 Mn users that actively access Internet on any form of mobile devices. These users are matured Internet users and are fairly young (18-35 years). Understandably, in the existing scenario, there is a need for a major fillip in ensuring the deployment and success of mobile Internet infrastructure.This report details the existing scenario in the domain of mobile Internet, the drivers that could further the growth and the future trends that could be witnessed in the coming years.