The 4G Report - Sidelining the Operators

The findings of the survey include that of the respondents, over 50% thought that a network would be ready by 2008, and more than five out of six expected one by 2010. These results will come as a warning to many 3G operators, who were expected to roll out 3G services by next year, but have been hit by delays and large debt problems. In the wake of these problems, it seems that some within the industry are looking beyond 3G for high-speed data solutions. The complete findings of visiongain's survey are available in the 4G Report.

The report discusses the protocols likely to play an important part in 4G, including OFDM, MC-CDMA, and LAS-CDMA. Expert analysis on the applications that 4G will enable, as well as the data speeds possible over 4G, explains how the hopes for 3G may, in fact, not be realised until the arrival of 4G. Discussion is also included of the licensing procedures and cell sizes that 4G will include.

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Chapter 2 - 4G technologies

2.1 OFDM

2.1.1 OFDM specifications

Figure 2 - Multiple Input, Multiple Output

2.1.2 Quantitative comparison

Figure 3 - Multiple users over OFDM

Graph 1 - Protocol data speeds

2.1.3 Qualitative comparison

2.1.4 Integration into 4G

2.2 MC-CDMA

2.3 LAS-CDMA

Table 1 - Comparative analysis of CMDA evolutionary technologies

Section B - Is 4G approaching?

Chapter 3 - Why do we need 4G?

3.1 Accelerated data speeds

Table 2 - Required data speeds for applications

3.2 IP utilization

3.3 Larger cell size

Graph 2 - Mobile masts required

3.4 A global specification?

Table 3 - Global distribution of mobile telecoms technologies

Chapter 4 - Developments in 4G

4.1 NTT DoCoMo

4.2 WWRF

4.2.1 Ericsson

4.2.2 Motorola

4.2.3 Nokia

Section C - visiongain survey & analysis

Chapter 5 - visiongain's 4G survey

5.1 What will 4G be?

Graph 3 - What technology will form the long-range backbone of the majority

of 4G networks?

Graph 4 - What data speeds will typically be possible over the first

publicly-operating 4G network?

Graph 5 - What applications will 4B enable?

5.2 When will 4G arrive?

Graph 6 - What year will the first public 4G network go live?

Graph 7 - How will 4G develop following 3G implementation?

5.3 Where will 4G appear first?

Graph 8 - In what region will the first public 4G network go live?

5.4 visiongain analysis

Chapter 6 - visiongain analysis

6.1 What will happen to the operators?

6.2 What will 4G offer?

Graph 9 - What applications would you like to use over your handset?

6.3 Should the industry move on?

6.4 What will this mean for 4G?

6.5 visiongain analysis - faster, cheaper, better?

Chapter 7 - visiongain's findings

Appendices

Appendix A - Terms and Abbreviations

Appendix B - About visiongain