3g Americas Evolves to Next Generation.

Now 4G Americas

September 28 2010

BELLEVUE, Wash.

To embrace the evolution of mobile broadband and next-generation wireless

services, 3G Americas, a premier wireless industry trade association for more
than eight years, today officially announced its name change to 4G Americas
effective immediately.

Under its new name, the organization will build on the monumental success of
3G Americas’ work to promote, facilitate and advocate for the deployment and
adoption of 3GPP mobile broadband technologies throughout the Americas
region and will continue its efforts in the following areas:

• Support the 3GPP technology path as it evolves to 4G technology

• Continue to address standards recommendations, technical

requirements and advocacy for 2G and 3G technologies

• Serve as the best resource for information on the 3GPP family of

technologies throughout the Americas

3G Americas’ Board of Governors unanimously voted to change the name of

the association as well as modify its mission and objectives to address the
changing landscape of the wireless industry. The evolution to 4G Americas and
the broadening of the organization’s mission will encompass not only the end
technology but now the empowerment of the technology as well. With some of
the world’s largest wireless operators and vendors as its members, the
organization will work collaboratively on regulatory and technical issues for the
benefit of customers throughout the Americas and will embrace emerging
devices and a broader ecosystem of services, applications and vertical
markets.

“Since its inception in 2002, 3G Americas has become a leading resource for
government, telecom companies and industry influencers to learn about
existing and emerging mobile broadband technologies. With the emergence of
HSPA+ and LTE technologies in the Americas and the mobile data opportunity
these technologies enable, the change to ‘4G Americas’ better reflects the
decisions and conversations the organization is helping to inform,” said Neville
Ray, Chief Network Officer for T-Mobile USA and Chairperson of 4G Americas’
Board of Governors. "The association’s move to 4G corresponds with the
mobile broadband transformation that’s fueling a world increasingly connected
by wireless networks.”
“4G Americas will be the unified voice to represent the 3GPP technology family,
bringing together both major vendors and operators to enhance the prospects
for mobile broadband growth throughout the Americas, as we move toward the
fourth generation,” added Chris Pearson, President of 4G Americas. “We will
focus on areas that may affect educational, social, enterprise and economic
development for mobile communications such as spectrum planning, technical
interoperability, public policy and regulatory issues.

“Even though 3G technologies will lead in the marketplace for years to come,
the timing is right for the name change. 4G Americas will make great efforts for
a mobile broadband community using the 3GPP family of technologies to
transform communications for people, businesses and societies throughout the
Americas,” he said.

More information can be found on the newly launched 4G Americas website at

www.4gamericas.org.

About 4G Americas: Unifying the Americas through Mobile Broadband

Technology

4G Americas is an industry trade organization composed of leading

telecommunications service providers and manufacturers. The organization's
mission is to promote, facilitate and advocate for the deployment and adoption
of the 3GPP family of technologies throughout the Americas. 4G Americas
contributes to the successful commercial rollout of 3GPP mobile broadband
technologies across the Americas and their place as the No. 1 technology
family in the region. The organization aims to develop the expansive wireless
ecosystem of networks, devices, and applications enabled by GSM and its
evolution to LTE. 4G Americas is headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., with an
office for Latin America and the Caribbean in Dallas. More information is
available at www.4gamericas.org.

4G Americas' Board of Governors members include: Alcatel-Lucent, América

Móvil, Andrew Solutions, AT&T, Cable & Wireless, Ericsson, Gemalto, HP,
Huawei, Motorola, Nokia Siemens Networks, Openwave, Powerwave,
Qualcomm, Research In Motion (RIM), Rogers, T-Mobile USA and Telefónica.

Contact:

Vicki Livingston

4G Americas

+1 262 242 3458

vicki.livingston@4gamericas.org
LTE

Long Term Evolution (LTE) is the next step from 3G/WCDMA & HSPA for many already
on the GSM technology curve but also for others too, such as CDMA operators. This new
radio access technology will be optimized to deliver very fast data speeds of up to 100Mb/s
downlink and 50Mb/s uplink (peak rates).

Designed to be backwards-compatible with GSM and HSPA, LTE incorporates Multiple In

Multiple Out (MIMO) in combination with Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple
Access (OFDMA) in the downlink and Single Carrier FDMA in the uplink to provide high
levels of spectral efficiency and end user data rates exceeding 100 Mbps, coupled with
major improvements in capacity and reductions in latency. LTE will support channel
bandwidths from 1.25 MHz to 20 MHz and both FDD and TDD operation.

Although both LTE and WiMAX use the OFDMA air interface, LTE has the advantage of
being backwards compatible with existing GSM and HSPA networks, enabling mobile
operators deploying LTE to continue to provide a seamless service across LTE and existing
deployed networks.

Several major mobile operators, including some running CDMA networks today, have
indicated they will adopt LTE in the next few years. Japanese mobile operator NTT
DOCOMO has said that it is aiming to launch a commercial LTE network by the end of
2009, while in the U.S., the largest CDMA operator, Verizon Wireless, is currently trialing
LTE with a view to launching a commercial LTE service in 2010.

LTE-Advanced
LTE-Advanced extends the technological principles behind LTE into a further step change
in data rates. Incorporating higher order MIMO (4x4 and beyond) and allowing multiple
carriers to be bonded together into a single stream, target peak data rates of 1Gbps have
been set.

LTE-Advanced also intends to use a number of further innovations including the ability to
use non-contiguous frequency ranges, with the intent that this will alleviate frequency range
issues in an increasingly crowded spectrum, self back-hauling base station and full
incorporation of Femto cells using Self-Organising Network techniques.
LTE-Advanced will be 3GPP’s technology as a candidate for the ITU-R IMT-Advanced
process, which is intended to identify ‘4G’ technologies.

http://www.gsmworld.com/technology/lte.htm