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       IN THIS ISSUE

      NOKIA STRENGTHENS WINDOWS
      PHONE ASSAULT

      VODAFONE CEO WARNS REGULATORS
      OF INVESTMENT SLOWDOWN

      ROYAL WELCOME TO THE MOBILE
      WORLD CAPITAL
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                                                                                                    DAY TWO • TUESDAY 28TH FEBRUARY




       By Tim Ferguson
       Ford: Cars the
       “great untapped
                                             Facebook backs mobile Internet




       Cont. on P14 f
       opportunity”                                                                      In order to eliminate this, the        billing        support,         today’s
                                                                                      company is working with “over 30”         implementations require SMS
       for mobile                                   rett    Taylor,    CTO       of   device makers, operators and              device verification, which takes

                                             B      Facebook,           yesterday
                                                    announced the company is
                                             participating in “a number of
                                                                                      developers through a W3C
                                                                                      community group called Core
                                                                                      Mobile Web Platform, with the
                                                                                                                                users outside of the normal flow of
                                                                                                                                an app, while developers have to
                                                                                                                                integrate with “hundreds of APIs”
                                             industry wide initiatives” intended      intention to “author and evangelise       to support operators globally.
                                             to support the development of the        and prioritise” the development of           To this end, the company
                                             mobile web, focusing on technology       HTML5 mobile web standards.               announced a partnership with
                                             standards and payment enabling.             Companies supporting this              “operators around the world to
                                                “Despite the incredible amount of     initiative include Samsung, HTC,          improve both the user and the
                                             work we have to do to make the           Sony, Nokia, AT&T, Verizon,               developer experience of operator
                                             mobile web great, I am extremely         Vodafone, Orange, Telefonica,             billing.” This work will remove the
                                             optimistic. In all of my years in the    KDDI and SoftBank.                        need for the SMS verification step for
                                             industry, I haven’t seen such a             Accompanying this, Facebook also       the “vast majority” of customers, while
                                             coordinated effort across so many        highlighted Ringmark, a testing suite     providing developers with a single SDK
                                             segments of our industry. These are      intended to monitor how devices           to get global reach with “very, very
                                             hard problems, but they are              comply with the new HTML5                 simple” technical verification.
                                             solvable problems, and we are            standards. “We are pragmatic. We             “That way, payments on the
             ord Motor Company’s             going to solve them together,” the       know that standards are only as good      mobile web can be what it should

       F




     By Paul Rasmussen
             executive chairman Bill         executive told Congress yesterday.       as their implementations in the field,”   be – a single step to confirm the
             Ford has called on the             While HTML5 has been widely           he said.                                  purchase,” he concluded.
       mobile industry to help develop       proposed as a way of addressing            With regard to payments, the               Operators        working        with
       smarter transport systems for         fragmentation in the industry,           Facebook executive said that “right       Facebook on streamlined billing are
       the future.                           Taylor noted that “if you look at        now, the payments experience of           AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, Orange,
                                             100 different devices, you’ll find 100   the mobile web is just broken.” He        Telefónica, T-Mobile USA, Verizon,
                                             different versions.”                     noted that even with operator             Vodafone, KDDI and SoftBank.




     China
     Mobile
     reveals
     TD-LTE                                                                                                                                     DISCOVER US
     plans
            hina Mobile has unveiled

     C      plans that will see TD-LTE
            widely deployed across the
     country. The company said that over
                                             service becoming available in
                                             2013,” said Yu. “The first TD-LTE
                                             installations will start during the
                                                                                        Speaking at the Global TD-LTE
                                                                                      Initiative (GTI) Summit yesterday,
                                                                                      the China Mobile president stressed
     20,000 TD-LTE base stations will be     second half of this year, and this       his support for handset vendors
     in operation by the end of this year,   will include some of the existing        developing converged devices to
     growing to 200,000 by 2013.             TD-SCDMA sites being upgraded            promote the wide scale uptake of
        China Mobile president, Li Yu,       to TD-LTE.”                              TDD/FDD LTE.
     said TD-LTE had now moved into            Li Yu added that its operations in       To help with this effort, the CEOs
     a new phase after trials in six         Hong Kong, which has access to           of Qualcomm and Hi Silicon took
     Chinese cities had proved positive.     TDD and FDD bands, will launch           the stage to announce multimode
     “We’re ready for large scale            this year as an early example of a       device chipsets supporting 2G, 3G                                                   ZONE 3 (Z3.1)
     deployment with commercial              converged LTE service in the region.     and TDD/FDD LTE.


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                                                                        about its PadFone hybrid         dual-core processor. It can be plugged    while the Transformer Pad 300
                                                                        device and unveiled its          into the PadFone station to become a      Series will support LTE using a
                                                               forthcoming Transformer Pad range         tablet, while a keyboard dock can be      Tegra 3 processor. The 300 is
                                                               at Congress yesterday.                    added to create a netbook device.         targeted       towards       younger
                                                                  Asus chairman Jonney Shih took            Asus also announced its new line       consumers, coming in a range of




                                                               By Ken Wieland
                                                               to the stage in Barcelona to              of Transformer Pads, which can be         different colours.
                                                               announce that the PadFone - which         used as tablet or netbook devices.           The Asus chairman also demoed
                                                               integrates a smartphone, tablet and       The Transformer Pad Prime, aimed          a tablet stylus that doubles as a
                                                               netbook and was first revealed at         at early adopters, runs the               Bluetooth headset and discussed
                                                               Computex in Taiwan last year - will       Honeycomb 3.2 version of Android          what he called the ubiquitous cloud
                                                               be available in April, with an LTE        but can be upgraded to Ice Cream          computing era. “The time has
                                                               version following in the third            Sandwich. It runs an NVIDIA Tegra         finally arrived when every screen in
                                                               quarter of 2012.                          3 quad-core processor and is just         your lives could transcend into a
                                                                  The smartphone is powered by the       8.3mm thick, weighing 586g.               portal with real time access into
                                                               latest Ice Cream Sandwich version of         The HD-capable Transformer Pad         your digital world,” he said.




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                                                                         along with job creation and                                               clock speed of Nokia.”
                                                                         service innovation, are                                                      In its smartphone portfolio, the
                                                               under threat if regulators do not ditch                                             company          confirmed       wider
                                                               ‘legacy’ thinking. So says Vittorio                                                 availability of its Lumia 900 device,
     In an effort to minimise the environmental impact of      Colao, Vodafone’s chief executive,                                                  which was announced earlier for this
     our events, the GSMA created the MWC Green
     Initiatives programme to promote reduced material
                                                               speaking at yesterday’s opening                                                     year in an LTE version for the US
     usage and waste at Mobile World Congress.                 keynote session at Congress. “We                                                    market. The vendor will offer a DC-      WCDMA technologies” – marking a
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                                                               need vast quantities of spectrum,                                                   HSPA version for markets where LTE       debut for Nokia in the CDMA
                                                               which creates efficiencies and lower      growing,” points out Colao. “People       is not supported, with availability      smartphone space.
                                                               prices,” argued Colao. “The [current]     think that every time there is an         from the second quarter of 2012.           Nokia also announced three more
        NEWS IN BRIEF...                                       thinking of allocating spectrum a bit     MTR reduction it puts more money             Also announced was an entry-          handsets in its mid-tier Asha
                                                               at a time should change. Investment       in the pocket of customers, but this      level Windows Phone device called        portfolio, the 202, 203 and 302.
                                                               is under threat.”                         is not totally true. The European         Lumia 610, which is “designed as the     Among the features supported are a
        Revenue                                                   Colao’s call for more wireless         Commission calculates that for            perfect introduction to Windows          “fast, cloud-based browser” which
        assurance                                              frequencies was echoed by Ralph           every ten cents in cuts, only two         Phone for a younger audience.” This      reduces internet access costs, with
        deal inked                                             de la Vega, President and CEO of          cents end up in customers’ pockets.”      terminal is the result of a new          the company claiming that this
                                                               Mobility at AT&T. “More spectrum             Colao added, however, that             software release from Microsoft,         compresses data traffic by up to 90
                                                               needs to be made available, which         Vodafone has made offers to co-           which enables Windows Phone to be        percent.
                                                               leads to new networks, innovation         invest     in     open,     fibre-optic   supported with lower memory and             Meanwhile, Symbian OS refuses to
                                                               and job creation.”                        infrastructure. Without giving details    processor requirements – and             go quietly, with Nokia announcing its
                                                                  The Vodafone chief repeated his        about which companies those offers        therefore enabling lower price points.   808 PureView, the headline feature of
                                                               accusation made at last year’s            were made to, Coloa said the firm’s          Due to the Windows Phone              which is a 41 megapixel camera
                                                               Congress that European regulators         overtures have so far been rebuffed.      upgrade, Nokia also said that the        sensor. While this can be used to
                                                               were running on ‘auto-pilot’,             Earlier this year, the Vodafone Group     platform will now support devices        produce an image with a 38
                                                               routinely cutting mobile termination      was reported as assessing the             targeting the Chinese market. The        megapixel resolution, pixels can also
                                                               rates (MTRs) without thinking             possibility of buying the extensive       company is now planning to offer a       be condensed to produce “the
                                                               through the consequences. “The            UK and global fibre-optic assets of       range of devices for this country,       sharpest images imaginable” at five
                                                               European [mobile] industry is not         Cable & Wireless Worldwide.               “covering both CDMA and                  or eight megapixels.




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     Marcelo Claure, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Brightstar
      Redefining Your Place



       The race for new customers remains active in emerging markets where mobile
     penetration still has room to grow. Manufacturers, operators, and now retailers are
      in the Wireless Industry


     scrambling to invest in the people, infrastructure, and resources needed to seize these
     opportunities while the window for new customers is open.
       In mature markets where saturation rates have surpassed 100 percent, the approach has
     shifted. These countries will count more mobile devices than people within their borders in


                                                                                                        A CALL FOR CONSISTENCY
     2012. Without new customers to drive a growth strategy, customer retention is the name of
     the game. Manufacturers, operators, and retailers battle fiercely to keep their customers
     and retain market share.
       Consumers are again reshaping the landscape of the wireless industry. They’re                      Technology has enabled consumers to shop for wireless devices online, in stores, and
     comfortable integrating wireless technology into areas of their lives where it was difficult to    even from wireless devices themselves. With so many paths to purchase, providing a
     imagine it before, bringing meaningful benefits and new opportunities. People are using            consistent experience is more difficult than ever before. Brick-and-mortar retailers often
     their devices to store, share and enable access to information and tools that simplify their       struggle to provide the same extensive portfolio as online stores due to shrinking real estate
     daily lives and empower businesses to provide new solutions. However, this new geography           and increasing inventory costs. At the same time, manufacturers and operators must
     comes with a price. Consumers accustomed to cutting-edge technology also have high                 compete to differentiate their products from thousands of other devices and plans. The
     expectations for the service that accompanies it.                                                  need for strategic sourcing and planning, and a knowledgeable, effective sales force will
       They’re demanding protection against damage or loss, the ability to upgrade or trade-in          continue to grow alongside the explosion of products available to consumers.
     their old device and a wide selection of new ones when they do. With many different paths             To thrive under these portfolio pressures, retailers and operators must look for solutions that
     to purchase, they expect a seamless experience both online and in-store. Wireless                  reconcile expanded choices with detailed expertise. Technology such as Brightstar’s Virtual
      When the wireless industry was in its infancy in the early 1980s, the focus was




     companies successful at wooing today’s consumers must learn to deliver all of this and             Inventory Program simplifies inventory management for retailers by providing back-end
      on introducing the newest product to a very core target market. Innovations




     more to keep them; and doing so comes with new challenges and complexities. Is your                management of their online experience, and solves space issues by supplementing their in-


     LOYALTY IS THE NAME OF THE GAME
      over the next decade were driven by consumer demand for smaller handsets




     company ready to face the expectations of today’s consumer?                                        store portfolio, letting customers order, activate and have a device shipped right away.
      and more affordable pricing. At this stage in the wireless industry’s




                                                                                                          Investment in sales force training is also important to ensure in-store customers receive
      evolution, operators and manufacturers looked to grow by adding as many




                                                                                                        the attention they require to make a purchase, and do so with peace of mind and
      new subscribers as possible in established markets across the world. By the




       The speed of innovation in the wireless industry has drastically shortened product lifecycles.   satisfaction. Retailers and operators can also employ store-within-a-store services and


                                                                                                        ENABLING THE EVOLUTION
      end of 2007, nearly half the population had a mobile device.




     Where a device is typically considered functional for an average of two years, consumers           outsourcing of the entire wireless category to drive sales.
     demanding faster, better, smarter technology are switching to the next best thing in under 18-
     months. In some areas of the world, consumers are losing patience even quicker: in 3- to 6-
     months. While every market is different, retailers, operators and manufacturers are being            The introduction of near field communication technology, the cloud and more advanced
     challenged to compete for their customer’s loyalty on a more frequent basis, and against a new     mobile applications allows consumers to use their wireless devices to access funds,
     set of competitors.                                                                                personal health information and much more. But consumers won’t use these features
       Getting the latest products from concept to consumer in the shortest amount of time is           unless they know their personal information is safe on their mobile device. What’s more,
     integral to success in this environment. It’s never been more important to get the right           these sophisticated tools can drive the cost of devices higher. Economic uncertainty in both
     product, to the right place, at the right time.                                                    emerging and developing markets forces consumers to consider the price of the latest
       Harmful eWaste is also an increasing issue presented by this accelerated lifecycle. As           smartphones and tablets with renewed sensitivity. To justify and protect their investment,
     consumers dispose of their old devices, eWaste is growing at an unprecedented rate.                consumers expect retailers, manufacturers and operators to provide services around the
     Brightstar has aligned itself with companies such as Flipswap® and eRecycling® to                  device – including warranties and insurance programs.
     provide trade-in and buy back programs that not only reduce churn and eWaste, but also               Players need to find new ways to build relationships with consumers that begin before the
     generate customer loyalty and revenue from pre-owned devices.                                      point of purchase and last beyond the life of their device. Handset insurance programs
       Retailers, operators and manufacturers have multiple risks to consider regarding the             instill loyalty and satisfaction by ensuring a customer that a lost, stolen, or damaged
     shortening lifecycle trend. From our unique vantage point, Brightstar is able to anticipate        handset or tablet can be easily resolved. Brightstar provides this service, allowing retailers,
     changing trends in technology around the globe. We have partnered with the leading brands          manufacturers and operators to offer it to the consumer.
     in wireless to create flexible solutions that enable us to reduce costs associated with              There’s no end in sight for the wireless evolution; how consumers apply new technologies and
     returns and getting devices back into the marketplace, including: buying the device,               the challenges this creates will continue to redefine our roles within it. To compete, your
     handling warehouse management, shipping it to the store, activating service, managing,             company will need to take an active role in this cycle. If you need help finding your place, or for
     testing, repair and reverse logistics.                                                             more information about Brightstar’s services portfolio, visit www.brightstarcorp.com/wireless.


       MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS DAILY 2012 | www.mobileworldcongress.com                                                                                       Tuesday 28th February             PAGE 5
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       New from Mesaplexx is the
       xCube which utilises radical
       radio filter technology to
       significantly improve the
       performance of active
       antenna systems and enable
                                          By Ian Volans



       increases of up to 65 percent
       in LTE network capacity. The
       xCube is a cool running, low
       loss, high isolation filter that
       improves sensitivity and
       handles much more power.
       These benefits, combined
       with its compact size, enables
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       AAS vendors to deliver 50 per
       cent more power output for
       the same input, delivering
       significant increases in range
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       and capacity. With more
       power output and less heat
       being generated multi-band
       and multi-technology
                                          Royal welcome to the




       solutions can come within
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       reach.
       LTE capacity gains
                                          Mobile World Capital




       Connection Manager from
       Emotum makes mobile and
       wireless connection
                                                                                     world. It’s definitely a sign of the        Attending the launch event




       management easier for
                                                                                     good things to come.”                    alongside Prince Felipe and John




       service providers, giving a
                                                    RH Felipe de Borbón,                Barcelona was selected as the         Hoffman were the President of the

                                          H




       completely customisable
                                                    Prince of Asturias, officially   first Mobile World Capital in July       Generalitat, Artur Más; Minister of




       solution to complement all
                                                    inaugurated Barcelona’s          2011 when the city was confirmed         Industry, Energy and Tourism, José




       deployment strategies. The
                                          reign as Mobile World Capital at a         as the venue for Mobile World            Manuel Soria; Mayor of Barcelona,




       Connection Manager is
                                          packed press conference at                 Congress until 2018.                     Xavier Trias and President of the




       feature rich, yet simple to
                                          Congress yesterday.                           The city’s vision is to “use mobile   Fira de Barcelona, Josep Luís Bonet.




       use for both users and
                                             The heir to the Spanish throne said,    technology as a transformational            In addition to the annual




       operators and has been
                                          “It is indeed a wonderful opportunity      engine for companies’ and people’s       Congress, the Mobile World Capital




       specifically designed to
                                          to contribute to the constant              everyday lives.”                         will encompass three new elements.




       provide a consistent user
                                          development of the industry and the           As Mobile World Capital,              A Mobile World Festival will engage           The Mobile World Hub, in the




       experience across Windows
                                          market in the mobile communications        Barcelona aims to create an urban        citizens with mobile technologies          city’s technological district will




       and Mac operating systems.
                                          sector,” said Prince Felipe “              laboratory for new applications that     through links with the city’s              facilitate the design, testing and




       It is device, connection and
                                             Reflecting on the economic              will transform the daily lives of the    musical, cultural and sporting             marketing of solutions, encourage




       network agnostic, working
                                          difficulties being experienced by          city’s people and businesses. John       events.                                    the creation of cross-industry




       seamlessly on 2G, 3G, 4G,
                                          many of the mobile world’s more            Hoffman, CEO of Congress-                   Located in the heart of the city, the   alliances and contribute towards




       Wi-Fi and Ethernet
                                          mature markets, he continued, “It is       organiser GSMA Ltd, congratulated        Mobile World Centre will be a hands-       the development of           global




                                                                                                                              By Paul Rasmussen



       networks.
                                          also a perfect means to send a             Barcelona on its “outstanding vision     on exhibition and experimentation          standards in fields such as mWallet,
                                          positive and powerful message and          for the Mobile World Capital, one of     space where citizens can experience        mHealth, smart-city, mContent and
                                          image of our country out to the            great creativity and innovation.”        the latest mobile technologies.            mTravel applications.

       Simplifying mobile




       Smart VoIP from Kineto
       broadband




       Wireless is the first VoIP
                                                                                                                              Ericsson’s




       application specifically
       developed to enable mobile
       operators to leverage their
                                                                                                                              new




       existing network
                                          By Ian Channing



       infrastructure to offer a
       competitive over-the-top
                                                                                                                              pico to




       (OTT) voice service. The
       application supports a range
                                                                                                                              include




       of standard mobile telephony
       capabilities and is designed
       to run on major mobile
                                                                                                                              Wi-Fi




       operating systems, including
       iPhone, Android and Windows
       Phone. The application can be
                                                                                                                              support




       branded by mobile operators
       and downloaded to
       subscribers through standard
       application stores. The
       application works over any
                                                                                                                                                                            The company also claimed that




       network, ties to main voice
                                                                                                                                      ricsson has announced a            finding new site locations remains

                                                                                                                              E




       service and leverages the
                                          ZTE unveils bevy
                                                                                                                                      range of small cell products,      one of the major issues for




       existing core network.
                                                                                                                                      including a multi-standard         operators today and these small cell
       OTT VoIP                                                                                                               pico with integrated support for           products, given their size and
       application
                                          of new devices
                                                                                                                              Wi-Fi.                                     backhaul options, are the preferred
                                                                                                                                 The company said these devices          choice in this situation.
                                                                                                                              could be deployed together with               The inclusion of Wi-Fi in a pico
                                                                                                                              macro cells in heterogeneous               product will call for the industry
                                                                                     core mobile processor and equipped       networks (hetnets) for increased           to investigate and develop how
                                                                                     with a NVIDIA Icera 450 HSPA+            network       capacity.    Operators       Wi-Fi       technology     can    be
                                                 urrently number four in the         modem, the ZTE Era offers high           adopting this hetnet approach, said        integrated into cellular standards.

                                          C      global terminal suppliers
                                                 rankings, Chinese vendor
                                          ZTE is targeting the number three
                                                                                     definition multimedia capabilities.
                                                                                        Also launched were the :PF112,
                                                                                     which has a large HD screen for
                                                                                                                              Ericsson, would benefit by being able
                                                                                                                              to deliver the same services with half
                                                                                                                              the     spectrum,     while    seeing
                                                                                                                                                                         According to Ewaldsson, Ericsson
                                                                                                                                                                         is leading this effort to ensure this
                                                                                                                                                                         work will be focused on the
                                          spot by 2015. In a bold statement of       optimal video viewing, plus updates      throughput gains of 2-10 times             network requirements and not
                                          its intent the company unveiled            on the successful Blade and Skate        compared to using separate vendors         centred on products.
                                          more than ten new terminals and            phones with the Skate Acqua, Kis,        for the macro and the small cell layer.       “It’ll be around two years before
                                          devices yesterday, including two           Blade II and Mimosa X. The                  Ericsson’s CTO, Ulf Ewaldsson,          we see Wi-Fi becoming part of the
                                          LTE     handsets,     the     PF200        presentation included the first          (pictured) told Mobile World Daily         hetnet, and will call for the Wi-Fi
                                          (LTE/GSM/UMTS) and the N910                appearance of ZTE’s internally           that this co-ordinated hetnet              firmware in the handset to be
                                          (LTE FDD/CDMA). These phones               developed user interface Myfavor         approach would lower the total cost        upgraded,” said Ewaldsson. “The
                                          run Android 4.0 with 1.2GHz and            which they claim simplifies and          of ownership (TCO) for operators           drive to make this happen is
                                          1.5GHz chipsets. ZTE also                  improves     the   Android      user     by 50 percent. “This TCO is directly       coming from North America where
                                          maintained its commitment to the           experience. The company also             related to using pico’s to provide         there is huge demand to carry
                                          Windows Phone platform with the            announced the ZTE Touch and Share        much improved coverage as against          smartphone data traffic. We’re
                                          introduction     of    the     Orbit       NFC application which enables users      the cost of deploying traditional          working closely with the US
                                          smartphone. At just 7.8mm thick            to exchange data or make payment         macro cells. The boost in                  operator community to find a
                                          the ZTE Era smartphone can justly          by simply touching their device to       throughput would come from the             solution, but the key to adopting a
                                          claim to be one of the thinnest            another. The new launches were           user’s device being much closer to a       hetnet approach is focusing on the
                                          quad-core devices on the market.           completed with a range of tablets        pico access point than at some             network, which is the tricky part in
                                          Based on the NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-          including two LTE devices.               distance from a macro cell.”               all this.”


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MWC12 Daily DAY2_DAY2 23/02/2012 16:11 Page 7




         Making a Difference
         We know that making a small difference in someone’s life, can
         change their life forever. Imagine being unable to call your loved
         ones to let them know you’re alright? During the revolution in
         Tunisia, Tunisiana, a Qtel Group Company, gave every prepaid
         customer one dinar credit a day for five days so people could still
         be in touch with their family and friends.




         Qtel - Qatar | Nawras - Oman | Navlink - UAE | Wataniya - Kuwait | Nedjma - Algeria | Tunisiana - Tunisia | Wantaniya - Maldives
         Wataniya - Palestine | Bravo - Saudia Arabia | Asiacell - Iraq | Starhub - Singapore | Lao Telecom - Laos | Mfone - Cambodia
         Indosat - Indonesia | wi-tribe - Jordan | wi-tribe - Pakistan | wi-tribe - Philippines



                                                                                                                                            4:29 PM
HEALTH NEWS

                                                                                                                                   Tim Wood,
                                                                                                                                   Director, Mobile Health Innovation,
                                                                                                                                   Grameen Foundation




                                               By Anne Morris
MWC12 Daily DAY2_DAY2 27/02/2012 20:28 Page 8




                                                                                                                                   Mobile Health Partnerships from the NGO Perspective. Time: 14.00, Hall 5, Room 5

                                                                                                                                    Which mobile health services will be most popular in emerging markets?
                                                                                                                                    Mobile health services that succeed will need to do three things: 1) provide
                                                                                                                                    relevant and actionable health information that ultimately leads to a change
                                                                                                                                    in behaviour 2) be usable by people with low literacy skills 3) be affordable.
                                                                                                                                    There is currently a lot of energy around maternal and child health initiatives,
                                                                                                                                    such as Grameen Foundation’s Motech project in Ghana. Additionally,
                                               Etisalat: Integrating




                                                                                                                                    sophisticated services that are able to provide people with information about
                                                                                                                                   Q&A r




                                                                                                                                    when they need to seek medical attention or how to address common
                                                                                                                                    ailments could also prove to be very popular and powerful.
                                               mobile money with




                                                                                                                                    What are the barriers to establishing successful mobile health partnerships?
                                               mHealth a win-win




                                                                                                                                    It can be tough to align objectives between partners. The private sector is
     By Richard Handford                                                                                                            typically driven by gaining market share and increasing revenue, while NGOs
                                                                                                                                   Mobile Health:




                                                                                                                                    and governments are looking to achieve changes in health outcomes.
                                               approach




                                                                                                                                    Accomplishing both of these, while also functioning with a sustainable
                                                                                                                                   Emerging Markets




                                                                                                                                    business model, can be extremely challenging. It’s also quite difficult today
                                                                                                                                   – partnerships for




                                                                                                                                    to establish connections to telecommunications firms for interactive voice
                                                                                                                                    response services in many markets. SMS aggregation is easier, but we’ve
                                                                                           “For developed                          growth




                                                                                                                                    found that the illiterate need IVR for our efforts to be effective.
                                                       rue commitment from an              markets the
                                               T




                                                                                                                                    How can these barriers be overcome?
                                                       MNO to a mobile health              proposition is built




                                                                                                                                    There needs to be compromise between the public and private sectors to find
                                                       programme means turning it
                                                                                           around secure
     SKT




                                                                                                                                    common ground where both can achieve the common goal of widespread
                                               into a mainstream business and not
                                                                                           remote access,




                                                                                                                                    adoption of mobile health services. NGOs need to define and build services
                                               just viewing as “just a hobby or PR




                                                                                                                                    that can have a broad reach and consider revenue generating partnerships.
                                                                                           consultations,
     looks to
                                               exercise”, said George Held, Vice




                                                                                                                                    Telecommunication providers need to look beyond short-term revenue goals
                                               Presudent group products and
                                                                                           storage and fast




                                                                                                                                    and use their market reach and customer network to help catalyse adoption
                                               services at Etisalat.
     overseas                                                                              distribution.”




                                                                                                                                    of services at a large scale.
                                                  Held, who was speaking with
                                               Mobile World Daily ahead of a




                                                                                                                                    How important is the role of mobile operators to such partnerships?
     healthcare                                presentation he made at Congress             The Mobile Baby programme is




                                                                                                                                    Mobile phone operators hold the primary relationship with the customer, so
                                               on Monday, said the Etisalat Mobile       designed to support birth attendants




                                                                                                                                    the operators play a vital role in these partnerships. The frequency with
                                               Baby programme is a prime                 and midwives and ensure safer
     markets




                                                                                                                                    which someone tops up airtime vastly exceeds the number of times someone
                                               example of how mobile health can          pregnancies and deliveries by




                                                                                                                                    seeks health information on their phone. Operators can be a powerful
                                               become a sustainable and scalable         enabling carers to quickly and




                                                                                                                                    channel to market health information services, enabling people to receive
                                               proposition by integrating it with a      accurately identify, communicate




                                                                                                                                    health information rapidly. Creative thinking with operators around
                                               mobile payment service.                   and act on obstetric emergencies.




                                                                                                                                    sustainable business models is vital for the long-term success of any mobile
                                                  Etisalat’s Mobile Baby programme          “Though the service is critical in




                                                                                                                                    health service.
           K Telecom (SKT) is looking at       creates revenue for all members of        the emerging markets, it is not fully

     S     mobile health opportunities         the ecosystem, said Held, from the        relevant in the developed markets




                                                                                                                                    What will be the most successful reimbursement model for mhealth
           outside Korea, said Yook Tae-       midwives through to local transport       where the above challenges are




                                                                                                                                    services in low and middle income countries?
     Sun, Senior Vice President and            providers and Etisalat, which             already adequately addressed,” said




                                                                                                                                    That really depends on the market. Countries with large populations can
     Head of the operator’s Healthcare         generates revenue through service-        Held. “For developed markets the




                                                                                                                                    achieve a high enough volume of service use to make a low-priced
     Business Division, in an interview        related data consumption.                 proposition is built around secure




                                               By Richard Handford                                                                  subscription model possible. In other locations – which will likely be the
     with Mobile World Daily.                     The Mobile Baby programme              remote access, consultations,




                                                                                                                                    majority of countries – a sponsorship- or advertiser-driven model will likely
        The operator is currently              ensures that all participants get paid,   storage and fast distribution.”




                                                                                                                                    be more successful. At Grameen Foundation, we also hope to be able to
     offering two of its mobile health         commented Held, and therefore                Held concluded that Etisalat




                                                                                                                                    demonstrate the value of mobile health services and the potential cost
     platforms to hospitals in China and       provides a sustainable level of           strongly believes mHealth services




                                                                                                                                    savings of delivering the services through the mobile phone so that
     is having discussions with                support for women in rural areas.         will be equally popular in




                                                                                                                                    sponsorship by the government health ministry makes sense, given the total
     Indonesian and Taiwanese mobile              “Most women especially in low-         developing and developed markets,




                                                                                                                                    savings that would occur in the overall health system.
     operators about jointly offering the      income countries continue to              if    properly introduced and
     same solutions in their home              deliver at home for a variety of          commercialised.         “The     only
     markets, according to Yook.               reasons including cost, preference,       difference will be in the scope of the
        SK Telecom’s mHealth services          culture and lack of information,”         offering and how they are
     are offered via the Health Connect        said Held.                                positioned in the market,” he added.
     joint venture with Seoul National
     University Hospital that was
     announced last autumn and then
     launched in January 2012. The joint
     venture has already announced
     plans to rollout healthcare services
                                               mHealth
     domestically in Korea later this year.
        In addition Yook said the joint
     venture is now “in its initial stage of
                                               payments and
     entering the global markets” with
     its digital hospital services. The
     plan is to pioneer the service in
                                               rules are crucial
     South East Asia by developing                                                          In the developing world,
     services for prevention and health                                                  customers are accustomed to
     management.                                      eimbursement               and     paying for health while in the
        The joint venture’s two platforms
     offered in China are the
     smartphone-based              Hospital
                                               R      regulation emerged as key
                                                      issues from yesterday’s
                                               conference session on how to get
                                                                                         developed world it is governments
                                                                                         and the private sector such as
                                                                                         insurance companies that generally
     Information System (HIS), which           mobile health integrated into large-      pay, said Gaur. This set-up in the
     enables doctors to check patients’        scale health systems.                     developed world means the
     information and view their                   Pramod Gaur, Vice President            reimbursement model for mhealth
     prescription records, and its Health      Telehealth with the UnitedHealth          is more complex to establish.            existing mobile payment service.           during the Q&A part of the session.
     Information Exchange (HIE).               Group, a leading US health insurer,          George Held, Director of Products     “We need a sustainable business            One model is an open market
        SK Telecom is demonstrating            outlined who are the four                 & Services, Etisalat Group gave the      which means everyone is making             where the strongest apps survive.
     Health Connect’s services at              stakeholders in mobile health:            example of the operator’s Mobile         money,” said Held.                         The other one involves the
     Mobile World Congress this week.          patients, health professionals, payers    Baby service which is offered across        On the subject of regulation,           government taking responsibility
     The operator will also show off its       (government or insurance company)         its African footprint as a working       Richard     Moore,    Commercial           for regulation. He said the US is
     newly-launched mPrescription app          and caregivers (the patient’s family      mobile health service. It is focused     Syndication      and  Partnership          more advanced than the UK in
     that enables patients to carry and        and friends). He also mentioned the       on reducing mother and child             Manager, NHS Choices, Capita               thinking about regulation and that
     store electronic prescriptions in         role that mobile health has in            mortality by seeing more at-risk         Health, explained the need for             the forthcoming announcement
     their smartphones, so removing            promoting wellness which is under-        pregnant women reach hospital. The       regulation when it comes to mobile         from the US Food and Drug
     the need for them to carry paper-         used compared with the monitoring         business model involves midwives,        apps. “It’s what we are trying to          Administration (FDA) on apps
     based prescriptions.                      of patients with chronic conditions.      taxi drivers as well as the operator’s   figure out at the moment, “ he said        would influence the UK.


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ADVERTORIAL
MWC12 Daily DAY2_DAY2 23/02/2012 14:23 Page 9




                                                                                                      1.6Gbps Downlink Throughput: The ARU features the world’s highest single-unit
                                                                                                      throughput. Other features include:
                                                                                                      • Broadband support—one ARU can simultaneously support three different bands,
                                                                                                        including 1.8GHz, 2.1GHz, and 2.6GHz.
                                                                                                      • Wider IBW (Instant Bandwidth)—each module utilizes IBW at 40 MHz to support higher
                                                                                                        throughput.
                                                                                                      • A high-degree of integration—each module is very small, so one slim ARU enables the
                                                                                                        assembly of up to three modules.
                                                                                                      • Split-cell functionality—capacity is effectively doubled by splitting existing single sectors
      ARU and



                                                                                                        in two; even with interference considered, capacity can be increased by up to 80%.
                                                                                                      • User-targeting beamforming—boosts downlink throughput.

                                                                                                      Giga-Level Uplink Throughput: The ARU’s uplink and downlink throughput operate on a
                                                                                                      giga level. In a connected world with endless possibilities, uplink traffic is certain to increase
      AtomCell,



                                                                                                      due to the increased ease of posting video and other high-bandwidth content online. Uplink
                                                                                                      capability will thus become more and more important for mobile networks. The ARU is
                                                                                                      specifically designed to meet such challenges with its 4-way receiver technology, which is
                                                                                                      capable of boosting gain by up to 40% to help uplink throughput reach 850Mbps.
      Creating a



                                                                                                      Adaptable Configurations: As an operator’s business grows, the need to increase network
                                                                                                      capacity becomes more important. An SDR (Software Defined Radio)-based ARU enables
                                                                                                      easy network upgrade for greater capacity. After acquiring new spectrum, operators can
                                                                                                      add more modules in different bands, or split single sectors into two for network expansion,


                                                                                                      ATOMCELL, THE WORLD’S MOST INTEGRATED BASE STATION
                                                                                                      with no new site space needed.
      Connected



                                                                                                      Due to increased traffic and coverage requirements, small cells are playing more and more
                                                                                                      of an important role in the industry. In addition to macro cells, operators need small cells
                                                                                                      to cover blind spots or offload to macro cells. Small cells help improve network
      World



                                                                                                      performance and provide better service to end users in a connected world.
                                                                                                        Finding site locations for small cells is difficult since their coverage area is limited.
                                                                                                      Accommodating their backhaul is also a challenge. The AtomCell, Huawei’s small cell
                                                                                                      solution, is designed to address these problems.
      • Over the past 10 years, the number of mobile subscribers has increased from
        800 million to 5.8 billion.

      • Over the past 5 years, hundreds of thousands mobile applications have been
        made available for download.

      • Over the last 2 years, more and more smartphones have been sold, replacing
        feature phones.

     We live in a world where our lives and behavior have been changed by mobile
     communications. We are living in a connected world.




                                                                                                         The Atom constitutes the basic component of Huawei’s AtomCell solution. Utilizing
                                                                                                      advanced technologies, the Atom integrates baseband, radio frequency, and power
     Traditional mobile networks are not able to meet increasing demands on




                                                                                                      amplifier functionality into one small box. Using this component and a suitable antenna
     traffic. To achieve success in this new world, we need new solutions.




                                                                                                      module, many different kinds of products can be assembled (RRU, base station etc.).
                                                                                                         Supporting 4T4R, two Atom units can be used to assemble a device that supports 8T8R
                                                                                                      and even 16T16R, to support higher-order MIMO for better performance. The AtomCell is
      ARU (Adaptive Radio Unit), Supports 12 times Capacity Expansion




                                                                                                      also the world’s first micro base station to support user-targeting beamforming.
      (Maximum Configuration)




       It has become increasingly difficult for operators to find space to build sites, even as the      Among all the challenges facing small-cell solutions, backhaul issues are the most
     need to support huge volumes of traffic continues to grow.                                       significant, as small cells need to be installed where traditional backhaul cannot be reached.
       Huawei’s ARU (Adaptive Radio Unit) is ideal for deployment in cases where space is limited        The AtomCell integrates different transmission functionalities (ADSL, Optical, FE) to meet
     but the need for capacity is great. The total size of its integrated antenna and radio unit is   different application scenarios. Customized microwave solutions have also been developed
     comparable to a standalone antenna, and its modular design can be easily configured.             for our small-cell solutions.
       The ARU can simultaneously support three separate bands over three different modes,               The AtomCell is designed according to the concepts of site optimization and ease of
     and supports cell splitting to improve overall cell capacity by up to 80%.                       deployment—One Site, One Box.
                                                                                                      Atom                                        Atom Cell




       MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS DAILY 2012 | www.mobileworldcongress.com                                                                                    Tuesday 28th February             PAGE 9
MONEY NEWS



       Giesecke & Devrient (G&D)
                                         By Richard Handford



       has been selected by Intel to
       deliver lifecycle management
       of the embedded secure
                                                                                                                               By Paul Rasmussen



       elements within Intel’s
       smartphone reference device.
       G&D will manage the
       partitioning and key
MWC12 Daily DAY2_DAY2 27/02/2012 19:45 Page 10




       management of the
       embedded secure elements
       over-the-air. Embedded
       secure elements provide an
       additional protected area for
       security-sensitive applications
       such as payments and
       ticketing using NFC.
       NEWS IN BRIEF...
                                         Mobile money          MTN first                                                                                                    Commenting on the agreement,
                                                                                                                                                                         Ericsson President and CEO, Hans




       Gemalto’s UpTeq NFC SIM
                                                                                                                                                                         Vestberg, said that 2012 would be a
                                         service flourishes in to adopt




       vault offers mobile operators
                                                                                                                                                                         year of partnership across the




       higher return on investment
                                                                                                                                                                         emerging mCommerce eco-system.

                                         earthquake’s wake Ericsson’s




       from their NFC roll-outs, and
                                                                                                                                                                         “MTN has long been an early




       security for protecting mobile
                                                                                                                                                                         adopter in mobile money, and this




       transactions. The new SIM
                                                                                                                                                                         new partnership builds on our
                                                               mWallet




       enables mobile operators to
                                                                                       Viola has attracted 364,000                                                       ongoing         relationship      of
       Intel selects G&D




       install and manage new NFC
                                                                                    registered users, an October 2011                                                    collaboration. Driving accelerated




       services even after issuing it
                                                 aitian mobile operator Viola       figure that Liautaud says has grown                                                  time to market for operators and

                                         H




       to end users. UpTeq NFC is
                                                  last month passed US$4            subsequently by about 15,000-                                                        linking wallet accounts to purchases




       designed as a high-end
                                                  million of payroll transactions   20,000 additional users. The take-up                                                 across multiple payment systems is




       security device to handle the
                                         carried over its T-Cash mobile money       means T-Cash has achieved 30                         TN is to be the first           a clear next step in next generation

                                                                                                                               M




       processing, storage and
                                         service, an indication of the service’s    percent penetration of its 1.2 million               operator      to     deploy     mobile financial services."




       verification of sensitive data.
                                         popularity and its role in the country     base in just over one year since                     Ericsson’s       Converged         This move follows a period of
                                         following a devastating earthquake         launch. Leading rival Digicel offers       Wallet service across its operations      close co-operation between MTN
                                         two years ago, according to a Mobile       an alternative mobile money service        in Africa and the Middle East.            and Ericsson on the Converged
                                          World Daily interview with the            which is called TchoTcho Mobile.              Ericsson said that its technology      Wallet technology, with MTN




                                                                                                                               By Richard Handford



       Sybase 365’s mobile
                                          operator’s acting CEO Pierre Liautaud.       Viola’s T-Cash service is based         would enable MTN to fast-track the        being one of the first operators to




       commerce platform is
                                            Many NGOs that came to the              on the USSD data channel and the           deployment of mWallet services by         deploy      Ericsson's      pre-paid




       designed to address mobile
                                          country in the wake of the January        mobile money platform is supplied          integrating its Converged Wallet          software back in 1998. The




       banking, mobile payments
                                         2010 earthquake use T-Cash’s payroll       by vendor MoreMagic. T-Cash has            service into MTN’s pre-paid               company said it would deploy the




       and mobile money services
                                         service to distribute aid payments so      been nominated for a Global                charging system.                          Converged Wallet service as a pilot




       for developed and emerging
                                         boosting its take-up. Viola originally     Mobile Award at this year’s Mobile            "Optimising the mobile money           in a number of its operations this




       markets. The platform
                                         planned for money transfers between        World Congress.                            consumer experience directly impacts      year, with a view to a wide




       enables banks to extend their
                                         individuals to be the mainstay of its         As well as paying their own staff,      consumer stickiness,” said Christian de   deployment across all its operations
       NFC SIM vault




       relationship to both the retail
                                         service      but    the     earthquake     NGOs have used T-Cash in other             Faria,    MTN’s       Group       Chief   in Africa and the Middle East.




       and business customer
                                         dramatically changed the operator’s        ways. For instance Mercy Corps             Commercial Officer. “With Ericsson           Ericsson added that it would be




       through the mobile channel,
                                         thinking. Instead, payroll came to the     uses the service to distribute             Converged Wallet we can now address       the prime integration contractor for




       and to create new services
                                         fore after the service’s launch in         vouchers as part of its development        our strategic priorities by enabling      the MTN mWallet project which




       and improve customer
                                         December 2010.                             programme for small businesses.            rapid response to our consumer's          would include providing software




       loyalty. It supports mobile
                                            Haiti is a good candidate for           The same NGO piloted the service           preferences and expectations."            and managed services.




       payments services that
                                         mobile money anyway because it is          before T-Cash’s wider launch.




                                         By Richard Handford



       enable consumers to use
                                         a cash economy where relatively few           In addition to payroll services,




       their mobile devices to pay
                                         of the population hold a bank              T-Cash can be used for P2P
                                                                                                                               Isis signs up cards




       for real-world goods and
                                         account. For instance, the country         transfers, purchasing goods in retail




       services. This latest release
                                         has approximately 25,000 credit            outlets and paying bills.




       adds mobile money capability
                                         cards and 50,000 debit cards out of a         Liautaud has not been surprised
                                                                                                                               for its mobile wallet




       to the platform for
                                         total population of 9-10 million           by the service’s take-up. “No




       branchless banking.
                                         giving an opportunity for mobile           because I used to work in a bank in
                                         money services. “The earthquake            the early nineties. I left because they
                                         provided a window to realise the           did not understand the future was
       Mobile commerce                   value of such services compared to         electronic payments. I knew that
       platform                          other countries,” says Liautaud.           Haiti had a need for such payments.”           sis, the joint venture between


                                                                                       The mobile wallet service, which
                                                                                                                               I   three leading US mobile
                                                                                                                                   operators,      has      reached
                                                                                                                               agreement with Chase, Capital One
                                         Vodafone                                   will be offered across the operator’s
                                                                                    footprint, will be based on Visa’s pre-
                                                                                                                               and Barclaycard so that their credit,
                                                                                                                               debit and prepaid cards will be
                                         and Visa                                   paid account and offered to
                                                                                    consumers in partnership with the
                                                                                                                               placed in the venture’s mobile
                                                                                                                               wallet, it has announced at Mobile
                                         in mPay                                    card company’s issuers.
                                                                                       Initial launch of the service will be
                                                                                                                               World Congress.
                                                                                                                                 Consumers who hold accounts

                                         partnership                                in Germany, Netherlands, Spain,
                                                                                    Turkey and the US in the current
                                                                                                                               with the three banks will be able to
                                                                                                                               put their cards into an Isis mobile
                                                                                    financial year. Other countries within     wallet and shop at participating
                                                                                    the mobile operator’s footprint will       retailers when the venture’s service
                                                                                    follow over time.                          launches in mid-2012, starting in Salt
                                                odafone and Visa have                  Other financial institutions as well    Lake City, Utah and Austin, Texas.

                                         V      announced a worldwide
                                                partnership that will enable
                                         consumers to pay for goods and
                                                                                    as retailers, transport and utility
                                                                                    companies are welcome to of fer their
                                                                                    services within Vodafone’s wallet.
                                                                                                                                  The announcement with the
                                                                                                                               three financial institutions follows
                                                                                                                               the announcement by Isis in July
                                                                                                                                                                         any major payment card and put it
                                                                                                                                                                         inside the mobile wallet.
                                         services using their mobile phones.           In developed markets in Europe,         2011 that it would work with the top         The Isis mobile wallet will offer
                                         The two companies will develop a           North American and Australia, users        four US payment networks: Visa,           the ability to pay, redeem coupons
                                         Vodafone-branded service supported         of the new service will be able to make    MasterCard,        Discover       and     and accrue loyalty points. Chase,
                                         by Visa’s payment system. They say         purchases       using     NFC-enabled      American         Express.       Isis’s    Capital One and Barclaycard will
                                         the link-up is “the world’s largest        smartphones equipped with Visa             relationship with the four payments       tailor their card services for the new
                                         mobile payments partnership”.              payWave mobile payment technology.         networks means banks can enable           mobile wallet.




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MWC-Day 2.pdf

  • 1. FINNISH VENDOR LAUNCHES MORE LUMIA SMARTPHONES PAGE 4 VITTORIO COLAO URGES SPECTRUM RETHINK PAGE 4 HRH FELIPE DE BORBÓN OFFICIALLY INAUGURATES BARCELONA’S REIGN AS MOBILE WORLD CAPITAL PAGE 6 MWC12 Daily DAY2_DAY2 27/02/2012 20:14 Page 1 BROUGHT TO YOU BY: OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2012 By Steve Costello IN THIS ISSUE NOKIA STRENGTHENS WINDOWS PHONE ASSAULT VODAFONE CEO WARNS REGULATORS OF INVESTMENT SLOWDOWN ROYAL WELCOME TO THE MOBILE WORLD CAPITAL DAILY DAY TWO • TUESDAY 28TH FEBRUARY By Tim Ferguson Ford: Cars the “great untapped Facebook backs mobile Internet Cont. on P14 f opportunity” In order to eliminate this, the billing support, today’s company is working with “over 30” implementations require SMS for mobile rett Taylor, CTO of device makers, operators and device verification, which takes B Facebook, yesterday announced the company is participating in “a number of developers through a W3C community group called Core Mobile Web Platform, with the users outside of the normal flow of an app, while developers have to integrate with “hundreds of APIs” industry wide initiatives” intended intention to “author and evangelise to support operators globally. to support the development of the and prioritise” the development of To this end, the company mobile web, focusing on technology HTML5 mobile web standards. announced a partnership with standards and payment enabling. Companies supporting this “operators around the world to “Despite the incredible amount of initiative include Samsung, HTC, improve both the user and the work we have to do to make the Sony, Nokia, AT&T, Verizon, developer experience of operator mobile web great, I am extremely Vodafone, Orange, Telefonica, billing.” This work will remove the optimistic. In all of my years in the KDDI and SoftBank. need for the SMS verification step for industry, I haven’t seen such a Accompanying this, Facebook also the “vast majority” of customers, while coordinated effort across so many highlighted Ringmark, a testing suite providing developers with a single SDK segments of our industry. These are intended to monitor how devices to get global reach with “very, very hard problems, but they are comply with the new HTML5 simple” technical verification. solvable problems, and we are standards. “We are pragmatic. We “That way, payments on the ord Motor Company’s going to solve them together,” the know that standards are only as good mobile web can be what it should F By Paul Rasmussen executive chairman Bill executive told Congress yesterday. as their implementations in the field,” be – a single step to confirm the Ford has called on the While HTML5 has been widely he said. purchase,” he concluded. mobile industry to help develop proposed as a way of addressing With regard to payments, the Operators working with smarter transport systems for fragmentation in the industry, Facebook executive said that “right Facebook on streamlined billing are the future. Taylor noted that “if you look at now, the payments experience of AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, Orange, 100 different devices, you’ll find 100 the mobile web is just broken.” He Telefónica, T-Mobile USA, Verizon, different versions.” noted that even with operator Vodafone, KDDI and SoftBank. China Mobile reveals TD-LTE DISCOVER US plans hina Mobile has unveiled C plans that will see TD-LTE widely deployed across the country. The company said that over service becoming available in 2013,” said Yu. “The first TD-LTE installations will start during the Speaking at the Global TD-LTE Initiative (GTI) Summit yesterday, the China Mobile president stressed 20,000 TD-LTE base stations will be second half of this year, and this his support for handset vendors in operation by the end of this year, will include some of the existing developing converged devices to growing to 200,000 by 2013. TD-SCDMA sites being upgraded promote the wide scale uptake of China Mobile president, Li Yu, to TD-LTE.” TDD/FDD LTE. said TD-LTE had now moved into Li Yu added that its operations in To help with this effort, the CEOs a new phase after trials in six Hong Kong, which has access to of Qualcomm and Hi Silicon took Chinese cities had proved positive. TDD and FDD bands, will launch the stage to announce multimode “We’re ready for large scale this year as an early example of a device chipsets supporting 2G, 3G ZONE 3 (Z3.1) deployment with commercial converged LTE service in the region. and TDD/FDD LTE. MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS DAILY 2012 | www.mobileworldcongress.com Tuesday 28th February PAGE 1
  • 2. MWC12 Daily DAY2_DAY2 23/02/2012 14:22 Page 2
  • 3. MWC12 Daily DAY2_DAY2 23/02/2012 14:22 Page 3 With Travel & Surf take all your friends on holiday! e Worry-frecross surfing a Europe. Enjoy worry-free internet across Europe for the price of a café con leche. Remember to enable your smartphone and buy your Travel & Surf pass so you can share all your best holiday moments straightaway. Send e-mails. Connect with Facebook. Send photos.
  • 4. NEWS @ShowDaily By Tim Ferguson Justin Springham Matt Ablott MANAGING EDITOR: Steve Costello DEPUTY EDITOR: Tim Ferguson Richard Handford MWC12 Daily DAY2_DAY2 27/02/2012 20:14 Page 4 CONTENT EDITORS: Ian Channing Anne Morris Paul Rasmussen Tweet REPORTERS: Ian Volans Ken Wieland showdailysales@mobileworldcongress.com Rick Costello Asus announces PadFone details; ALL ADVERTISING ENQUIRIES TO: Samantha Burke PUBLISHER: launches Transformer Pads Russell Smith, IntuitiveDesign UK Ltd., PRODUCTION MANAGER: 13 North St, Tolleshunt D’Arcy, Maldon, Essex CM9 8TF, UK, ART DIRECTION & PRODUCTION: email: russell@intuitive-design.co.uk Servicios Gráficas Giesa, Barcelona Android, has a 4.3 inch Super Infinity supports LTE, 3G and Wi-Fi AMOLEDqHD screen and runs a and runs on a 1.5Ghz Qualcomm sus provided more details 1.5Ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Snapdragon S4 dual-core processor, A PRINTED BY: By Steve Costello about its PadFone hybrid dual-core processor. It can be plugged while the Transformer Pad 300 device and unveiled its into the PadFone station to become a Series will support LTE using a forthcoming Transformer Pad range tablet, while a keyboard dock can be Tegra 3 processor. The 300 is at Congress yesterday. added to create a netbook device. targeted towards younger Asus chairman Jonney Shih took Asus also announced its new line consumers, coming in a range of By Ken Wieland to the stage in Barcelona to of Transformer Pads, which can be different colours. announce that the PadFone - which used as tablet or netbook devices. The Asus chairman also demoed integrates a smartphone, tablet and The Transformer Pad Prime, aimed a tablet stylus that doubles as a netbook and was first revealed at at early adopters, runs the Bluetooth headset and discussed Computex in Taiwan last year - will Honeycomb 3.2 version of Android what he called the ubiquitous cloud be available in April, with an LTE but can be upgraded to Ice Cream computing era. “The time has version following in the third Sandwich. It runs an NVIDIA Tegra finally arrived when every screen in quarter of 2012. 3 quad-core processor and is just your lives could transcend into a The smartphone is powered by the 8.3mm thick, weighing 586g. portal with real time access into latest Ice Cream Sandwich version of The HD-capable Transformer Pad your digital world,” he said. Vodafone Nokia strengthens CEO warns Whilst care has been taken to ensure that the data in this publication is accurate, the publisher cannot accept and hereby disclaims any liability to any party Windows Phone assault Aricent has completed its to loss or damage caused by errors or omissions regulators of implementation of a resulting from negligence, accident or any other cause. All rights reserved. No part of this publication investment mediation and revenue may be reproduced, stored in any retrieval system or assurance system for MVNO transmitted in any form electronic, mechanical, slowdown photocopying or otherwise without the prior Lebara Mobile which was okia yesterday announced a N permission of the publisher. designed to improve revenue broad refresh to its device management, streamline portfolio, with Stephen Elop, rating and mediation in order its CEO, stating that one year on to create a reliable, scalable A GSM Media Publication from its strategy refresh, it is “very All content © GSM Media LLC 2007-2012. BSS environment. obile network investment, clear that we have changed the M All rights reserved. along with job creation and clock speed of Nokia.” service innovation, are In its smartphone portfolio, the under threat if regulators do not ditch company confirmed wider ‘legacy’ thinking. So says Vittorio availability of its Lumia 900 device, In an effort to minimise the environmental impact of Colao, Vodafone’s chief executive, which was announced earlier for this our events, the GSMA created the MWC Green Initiatives programme to promote reduced material speaking at yesterday’s opening year in an LTE version for the US usage and waste at Mobile World Congress. keynote session at Congress. “We market. The vendor will offer a DC- WCDMA technologies” – marking a This item is printed on recycled paper. need vast quantities of spectrum, HSPA version for markets where LTE debut for Nokia in the CDMA which creates efficiencies and lower growing,” points out Colao. “People is not supported, with availability smartphone space. prices,” argued Colao. “The [current] think that every time there is an from the second quarter of 2012. Nokia also announced three more NEWS IN BRIEF... thinking of allocating spectrum a bit MTR reduction it puts more money Also announced was an entry- handsets in its mid-tier Asha at a time should change. Investment in the pocket of customers, but this level Windows Phone device called portfolio, the 202, 203 and 302. is under threat.” is not totally true. The European Lumia 610, which is “designed as the Among the features supported are a Revenue Colao’s call for more wireless Commission calculates that for perfect introduction to Windows “fast, cloud-based browser” which assurance frequencies was echoed by Ralph every ten cents in cuts, only two Phone for a younger audience.” This reduces internet access costs, with deal inked de la Vega, President and CEO of cents end up in customers’ pockets.” terminal is the result of a new the company claiming that this Mobility at AT&T. “More spectrum Colao added, however, that software release from Microsoft, compresses data traffic by up to 90 needs to be made available, which Vodafone has made offers to co- which enables Windows Phone to be percent. leads to new networks, innovation invest in open, fibre-optic supported with lower memory and Meanwhile, Symbian OS refuses to and job creation.” infrastructure. Without giving details processor requirements – and go quietly, with Nokia announcing its The Vodafone chief repeated his about which companies those offers therefore enabling lower price points. 808 PureView, the headline feature of accusation made at last year’s were made to, Coloa said the firm’s Due to the Windows Phone which is a 41 megapixel camera Congress that European regulators overtures have so far been rebuffed. upgrade, Nokia also said that the sensor. While this can be used to were running on ‘auto-pilot’, Earlier this year, the Vodafone Group platform will now support devices produce an image with a 38 routinely cutting mobile termination was reported as assessing the targeting the Chinese market. The megapixel resolution, pixels can also rates (MTRs) without thinking possibility of buying the extensive company is now planning to offer a be condensed to produce “the through the consequences. “The UK and global fibre-optic assets of range of devices for this country, sharpest images imaginable” at five European [mobile] industry is not Cable & Wireless Worldwide. “covering both CDMA and or eight megapixels. Architect the Mobile Next-Generation Internet Visit us at Hall 8, Stand A111 PAGE 4 Tuesday 28th February MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS DAILY 2012 | www.mobileworldcongress.com
  • 5. ADVERTORIAL MWC12 Daily DAY2_DAY2 23/02/2012 14:22 Page 5 Marcelo Claure, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Brightstar Redefining Your Place The race for new customers remains active in emerging markets where mobile penetration still has room to grow. Manufacturers, operators, and now retailers are in the Wireless Industry scrambling to invest in the people, infrastructure, and resources needed to seize these opportunities while the window for new customers is open. In mature markets where saturation rates have surpassed 100 percent, the approach has shifted. These countries will count more mobile devices than people within their borders in A CALL FOR CONSISTENCY 2012. Without new customers to drive a growth strategy, customer retention is the name of the game. Manufacturers, operators, and retailers battle fiercely to keep their customers and retain market share. Consumers are again reshaping the landscape of the wireless industry. They’re Technology has enabled consumers to shop for wireless devices online, in stores, and comfortable integrating wireless technology into areas of their lives where it was difficult to even from wireless devices themselves. With so many paths to purchase, providing a imagine it before, bringing meaningful benefits and new opportunities. People are using consistent experience is more difficult than ever before. Brick-and-mortar retailers often their devices to store, share and enable access to information and tools that simplify their struggle to provide the same extensive portfolio as online stores due to shrinking real estate daily lives and empower businesses to provide new solutions. However, this new geography and increasing inventory costs. At the same time, manufacturers and operators must comes with a price. Consumers accustomed to cutting-edge technology also have high compete to differentiate their products from thousands of other devices and plans. The expectations for the service that accompanies it. need for strategic sourcing and planning, and a knowledgeable, effective sales force will They’re demanding protection against damage or loss, the ability to upgrade or trade-in continue to grow alongside the explosion of products available to consumers. their old device and a wide selection of new ones when they do. With many different paths To thrive under these portfolio pressures, retailers and operators must look for solutions that to purchase, they expect a seamless experience both online and in-store. Wireless reconcile expanded choices with detailed expertise. Technology such as Brightstar’s Virtual When the wireless industry was in its infancy in the early 1980s, the focus was companies successful at wooing today’s consumers must learn to deliver all of this and Inventory Program simplifies inventory management for retailers by providing back-end on introducing the newest product to a very core target market. Innovations more to keep them; and doing so comes with new challenges and complexities. Is your management of their online experience, and solves space issues by supplementing their in- LOYALTY IS THE NAME OF THE GAME over the next decade were driven by consumer demand for smaller handsets company ready to face the expectations of today’s consumer? store portfolio, letting customers order, activate and have a device shipped right away. and more affordable pricing. At this stage in the wireless industry’s Investment in sales force training is also important to ensure in-store customers receive evolution, operators and manufacturers looked to grow by adding as many the attention they require to make a purchase, and do so with peace of mind and new subscribers as possible in established markets across the world. By the The speed of innovation in the wireless industry has drastically shortened product lifecycles. satisfaction. Retailers and operators can also employ store-within-a-store services and ENABLING THE EVOLUTION end of 2007, nearly half the population had a mobile device. Where a device is typically considered functional for an average of two years, consumers outsourcing of the entire wireless category to drive sales. demanding faster, better, smarter technology are switching to the next best thing in under 18- months. In some areas of the world, consumers are losing patience even quicker: in 3- to 6- months. While every market is different, retailers, operators and manufacturers are being The introduction of near field communication technology, the cloud and more advanced challenged to compete for their customer’s loyalty on a more frequent basis, and against a new mobile applications allows consumers to use their wireless devices to access funds, set of competitors. personal health information and much more. But consumers won’t use these features Getting the latest products from concept to consumer in the shortest amount of time is unless they know their personal information is safe on their mobile device. What’s more, integral to success in this environment. It’s never been more important to get the right these sophisticated tools can drive the cost of devices higher. Economic uncertainty in both product, to the right place, at the right time. emerging and developing markets forces consumers to consider the price of the latest Harmful eWaste is also an increasing issue presented by this accelerated lifecycle. As smartphones and tablets with renewed sensitivity. To justify and protect their investment, consumers dispose of their old devices, eWaste is growing at an unprecedented rate. consumers expect retailers, manufacturers and operators to provide services around the Brightstar has aligned itself with companies such as Flipswap® and eRecycling® to device – including warranties and insurance programs. provide trade-in and buy back programs that not only reduce churn and eWaste, but also Players need to find new ways to build relationships with consumers that begin before the generate customer loyalty and revenue from pre-owned devices. point of purchase and last beyond the life of their device. Handset insurance programs Retailers, operators and manufacturers have multiple risks to consider regarding the instill loyalty and satisfaction by ensuring a customer that a lost, stolen, or damaged shortening lifecycle trend. From our unique vantage point, Brightstar is able to anticipate handset or tablet can be easily resolved. Brightstar provides this service, allowing retailers, changing trends in technology around the globe. We have partnered with the leading brands manufacturers and operators to offer it to the consumer. in wireless to create flexible solutions that enable us to reduce costs associated with There’s no end in sight for the wireless evolution; how consumers apply new technologies and returns and getting devices back into the marketplace, including: buying the device, the challenges this creates will continue to redefine our roles within it. To compete, your handling warehouse management, shipping it to the store, activating service, managing, company will need to take an active role in this cycle. If you need help finding your place, or for testing, repair and reverse logistics. more information about Brightstar’s services portfolio, visit www.brightstarcorp.com/wireless. MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS DAILY 2012 | www.mobileworldcongress.com Tuesday 28th February PAGE 5
  • 6. NEWS @ShowDaily New from Mesaplexx is the xCube which utilises radical radio filter technology to significantly improve the performance of active antenna systems and enable By Ian Volans increases of up to 65 percent in LTE network capacity. The xCube is a cool running, low loss, high isolation filter that improves sensitivity and handles much more power. These benefits, combined with its compact size, enables MWC12 Daily DAY2_DAY2 27/02/2012 19:45 Page 6 AAS vendors to deliver 50 per cent more power output for the same input, delivering significant increases in range Tweet and capacity. With more power output and less heat being generated multi-band and multi-technology Royal welcome to the solutions can come within NEWS IN BRIEF... reach. LTE capacity gains Mobile World Capital Connection Manager from Emotum makes mobile and wireless connection world. It’s definitely a sign of the Attending the launch event management easier for good things to come.” alongside Prince Felipe and John service providers, giving a RH Felipe de Borbón, Barcelona was selected as the Hoffman were the President of the H completely customisable Prince of Asturias, officially first Mobile World Capital in July Generalitat, Artur Más; Minister of solution to complement all inaugurated Barcelona’s 2011 when the city was confirmed Industry, Energy and Tourism, José deployment strategies. The reign as Mobile World Capital at a as the venue for Mobile World Manuel Soria; Mayor of Barcelona, Connection Manager is packed press conference at Congress until 2018. Xavier Trias and President of the feature rich, yet simple to Congress yesterday. The city’s vision is to “use mobile Fira de Barcelona, Josep Luís Bonet. use for both users and The heir to the Spanish throne said, technology as a transformational In addition to the annual operators and has been “It is indeed a wonderful opportunity engine for companies’ and people’s Congress, the Mobile World Capital specifically designed to to contribute to the constant everyday lives.” will encompass three new elements. provide a consistent user development of the industry and the As Mobile World Capital, A Mobile World Festival will engage The Mobile World Hub, in the experience across Windows market in the mobile communications Barcelona aims to create an urban citizens with mobile technologies city’s technological district will and Mac operating systems. sector,” said Prince Felipe “ laboratory for new applications that through links with the city’s facilitate the design, testing and It is device, connection and Reflecting on the economic will transform the daily lives of the musical, cultural and sporting marketing of solutions, encourage network agnostic, working difficulties being experienced by city’s people and businesses. John events. the creation of cross-industry seamlessly on 2G, 3G, 4G, many of the mobile world’s more Hoffman, CEO of Congress- Located in the heart of the city, the alliances and contribute towards Wi-Fi and Ethernet mature markets, he continued, “It is organiser GSMA Ltd, congratulated Mobile World Centre will be a hands- the development of global By Paul Rasmussen networks. also a perfect means to send a Barcelona on its “outstanding vision on exhibition and experimentation standards in fields such as mWallet, positive and powerful message and for the Mobile World Capital, one of space where citizens can experience mHealth, smart-city, mContent and image of our country out to the great creativity and innovation.” the latest mobile technologies. mTravel applications. Simplifying mobile Smart VoIP from Kineto broadband Wireless is the first VoIP Ericsson’s application specifically developed to enable mobile operators to leverage their new existing network By Ian Channing infrastructure to offer a competitive over-the-top pico to (OTT) voice service. The application supports a range include of standard mobile telephony capabilities and is designed to run on major mobile Wi-Fi operating systems, including iPhone, Android and Windows Phone. The application can be support branded by mobile operators and downloaded to subscribers through standard application stores. The application works over any The company also claimed that network, ties to main voice ricsson has announced a finding new site locations remains E service and leverages the ZTE unveils bevy range of small cell products, one of the major issues for existing core network. including a multi-standard operators today and these small cell OTT VoIP pico with integrated support for products, given their size and application of new devices Wi-Fi. backhaul options, are the preferred The company said these devices choice in this situation. could be deployed together with The inclusion of Wi-Fi in a pico macro cells in heterogeneous product will call for the industry core mobile processor and equipped networks (hetnets) for increased to investigate and develop how with a NVIDIA Icera 450 HSPA+ network capacity. Operators Wi-Fi technology can be urrently number four in the modem, the ZTE Era offers high adopting this hetnet approach, said integrated into cellular standards. C global terminal suppliers rankings, Chinese vendor ZTE is targeting the number three definition multimedia capabilities. Also launched were the :PF112, which has a large HD screen for Ericsson, would benefit by being able to deliver the same services with half the spectrum, while seeing According to Ewaldsson, Ericsson is leading this effort to ensure this work will be focused on the spot by 2015. In a bold statement of optimal video viewing, plus updates throughput gains of 2-10 times network requirements and not its intent the company unveiled on the successful Blade and Skate compared to using separate vendors centred on products. more than ten new terminals and phones with the Skate Acqua, Kis, for the macro and the small cell layer. “It’ll be around two years before devices yesterday, including two Blade II and Mimosa X. The Ericsson’s CTO, Ulf Ewaldsson, we see Wi-Fi becoming part of the LTE handsets, the PF200 presentation included the first (pictured) told Mobile World Daily hetnet, and will call for the Wi-Fi (LTE/GSM/UMTS) and the N910 appearance of ZTE’s internally that this co-ordinated hetnet firmware in the handset to be (LTE FDD/CDMA). These phones developed user interface Myfavor approach would lower the total cost upgraded,” said Ewaldsson. “The run Android 4.0 with 1.2GHz and which they claim simplifies and of ownership (TCO) for operators drive to make this happen is 1.5GHz chipsets. ZTE also improves the Android user by 50 percent. “This TCO is directly coming from North America where maintained its commitment to the experience. The company also related to using pico’s to provide there is huge demand to carry Windows Phone platform with the announced the ZTE Touch and Share much improved coverage as against smartphone data traffic. We’re introduction of the Orbit NFC application which enables users the cost of deploying traditional working closely with the US smartphone. At just 7.8mm thick to exchange data or make payment macro cells. The boost in operator community to find a the ZTE Era smartphone can justly by simply touching their device to throughput would come from the solution, but the key to adopting a claim to be one of the thinnest another. The new launches were user’s device being much closer to a hetnet approach is focusing on the quad-core devices on the market. completed with a range of tablets pico access point than at some network, which is the tricky part in Based on the NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad- including two LTE devices. distance from a macro cell.” all this.” PAGE 6 Tuesday 28th February MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS DAILY 2012 | www.mobileworldcongress.com
  • 7. MWC12 Daily DAY2_DAY2 23/02/2012 16:11 Page 7 Making a Difference We know that making a small difference in someone’s life, can change their life forever. Imagine being unable to call your loved ones to let them know you’re alright? During the revolution in Tunisia, Tunisiana, a Qtel Group Company, gave every prepaid customer one dinar credit a day for five days so people could still be in touch with their family and friends. Qtel - Qatar | Nawras - Oman | Navlink - UAE | Wataniya - Kuwait | Nedjma - Algeria | Tunisiana - Tunisia | Wantaniya - Maldives Wataniya - Palestine | Bravo - Saudia Arabia | Asiacell - Iraq | Starhub - Singapore | Lao Telecom - Laos | Mfone - Cambodia Indosat - Indonesia | wi-tribe - Jordan | wi-tribe - Pakistan | wi-tribe - Philippines 4:29 PM
  • 8. HEALTH NEWS Tim Wood, Director, Mobile Health Innovation, Grameen Foundation By Anne Morris MWC12 Daily DAY2_DAY2 27/02/2012 20:28 Page 8 Mobile Health Partnerships from the NGO Perspective. Time: 14.00, Hall 5, Room 5 Which mobile health services will be most popular in emerging markets? Mobile health services that succeed will need to do three things: 1) provide relevant and actionable health information that ultimately leads to a change in behaviour 2) be usable by people with low literacy skills 3) be affordable. There is currently a lot of energy around maternal and child health initiatives, such as Grameen Foundation’s Motech project in Ghana. Additionally, Etisalat: Integrating sophisticated services that are able to provide people with information about Q&A r when they need to seek medical attention or how to address common ailments could also prove to be very popular and powerful. mobile money with What are the barriers to establishing successful mobile health partnerships? mHealth a win-win It can be tough to align objectives between partners. The private sector is By Richard Handford typically driven by gaining market share and increasing revenue, while NGOs Mobile Health: and governments are looking to achieve changes in health outcomes. approach Accomplishing both of these, while also functioning with a sustainable Emerging Markets business model, can be extremely challenging. It’s also quite difficult today – partnerships for to establish connections to telecommunications firms for interactive voice response services in many markets. SMS aggregation is easier, but we’ve “For developed growth found that the illiterate need IVR for our efforts to be effective. rue commitment from an markets the T How can these barriers be overcome? MNO to a mobile health proposition is built There needs to be compromise between the public and private sectors to find programme means turning it around secure SKT common ground where both can achieve the common goal of widespread into a mainstream business and not remote access, adoption of mobile health services. NGOs need to define and build services just viewing as “just a hobby or PR that can have a broad reach and consider revenue generating partnerships. consultations, looks to exercise”, said George Held, Vice Telecommunication providers need to look beyond short-term revenue goals Presudent group products and storage and fast and use their market reach and customer network to help catalyse adoption services at Etisalat. overseas distribution.” of services at a large scale. Held, who was speaking with Mobile World Daily ahead of a How important is the role of mobile operators to such partnerships? healthcare presentation he made at Congress The Mobile Baby programme is Mobile phone operators hold the primary relationship with the customer, so on Monday, said the Etisalat Mobile designed to support birth attendants the operators play a vital role in these partnerships. The frequency with Baby programme is a prime and midwives and ensure safer markets which someone tops up airtime vastly exceeds the number of times someone example of how mobile health can pregnancies and deliveries by seeks health information on their phone. Operators can be a powerful become a sustainable and scalable enabling carers to quickly and channel to market health information services, enabling people to receive proposition by integrating it with a accurately identify, communicate health information rapidly. Creative thinking with operators around mobile payment service. and act on obstetric emergencies. sustainable business models is vital for the long-term success of any mobile Etisalat’s Mobile Baby programme “Though the service is critical in health service. K Telecom (SKT) is looking at creates revenue for all members of the emerging markets, it is not fully S mobile health opportunities the ecosystem, said Held, from the relevant in the developed markets What will be the most successful reimbursement model for mhealth outside Korea, said Yook Tae- midwives through to local transport where the above challenges are services in low and middle income countries? Sun, Senior Vice President and providers and Etisalat, which already adequately addressed,” said That really depends on the market. Countries with large populations can Head of the operator’s Healthcare generates revenue through service- Held. “For developed markets the achieve a high enough volume of service use to make a low-priced Business Division, in an interview related data consumption. proposition is built around secure By Richard Handford subscription model possible. In other locations – which will likely be the with Mobile World Daily. The Mobile Baby programme remote access, consultations, majority of countries – a sponsorship- or advertiser-driven model will likely The operator is currently ensures that all participants get paid, storage and fast distribution.” be more successful. At Grameen Foundation, we also hope to be able to offering two of its mobile health commented Held, and therefore Held concluded that Etisalat demonstrate the value of mobile health services and the potential cost platforms to hospitals in China and provides a sustainable level of strongly believes mHealth services savings of delivering the services through the mobile phone so that is having discussions with support for women in rural areas. will be equally popular in sponsorship by the government health ministry makes sense, given the total Indonesian and Taiwanese mobile “Most women especially in low- developing and developed markets, savings that would occur in the overall health system. operators about jointly offering the income countries continue to if properly introduced and same solutions in their home deliver at home for a variety of commercialised. “The only markets, according to Yook. reasons including cost, preference, difference will be in the scope of the SK Telecom’s mHealth services culture and lack of information,” offering and how they are are offered via the Health Connect said Held. positioned in the market,” he added. joint venture with Seoul National University Hospital that was announced last autumn and then launched in January 2012. The joint venture has already announced plans to rollout healthcare services mHealth domestically in Korea later this year. In addition Yook said the joint venture is now “in its initial stage of payments and entering the global markets” with its digital hospital services. The plan is to pioneer the service in rules are crucial South East Asia by developing In the developing world, services for prevention and health customers are accustomed to management. eimbursement and paying for health while in the The joint venture’s two platforms offered in China are the smartphone-based Hospital R regulation emerged as key issues from yesterday’s conference session on how to get developed world it is governments and the private sector such as insurance companies that generally Information System (HIS), which mobile health integrated into large- pay, said Gaur. This set-up in the enables doctors to check patients’ scale health systems. developed world means the information and view their Pramod Gaur, Vice President reimbursement model for mhealth prescription records, and its Health Telehealth with the UnitedHealth is more complex to establish. existing mobile payment service. during the Q&A part of the session. Information Exchange (HIE). Group, a leading US health insurer, George Held, Director of Products “We need a sustainable business One model is an open market SK Telecom is demonstrating outlined who are the four & Services, Etisalat Group gave the which means everyone is making where the strongest apps survive. Health Connect’s services at stakeholders in mobile health: example of the operator’s Mobile money,” said Held. The other one involves the Mobile World Congress this week. patients, health professionals, payers Baby service which is offered across On the subject of regulation, government taking responsibility The operator will also show off its (government or insurance company) its African footprint as a working Richard Moore, Commercial for regulation. He said the US is newly-launched mPrescription app and caregivers (the patient’s family mobile health service. It is focused Syndication and Partnership more advanced than the UK in that enables patients to carry and and friends). He also mentioned the on reducing mother and child Manager, NHS Choices, Capita thinking about regulation and that store electronic prescriptions in role that mobile health has in mortality by seeing more at-risk Health, explained the need for the forthcoming announcement their smartphones, so removing promoting wellness which is under- pregnant women reach hospital. The regulation when it comes to mobile from the US Food and Drug the need for them to carry paper- used compared with the monitoring business model involves midwives, apps. “It’s what we are trying to Administration (FDA) on apps based prescriptions. of patients with chronic conditions. taxi drivers as well as the operator’s figure out at the moment, “ he said would influence the UK. PAGE 8 Tuesday 28th February MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS DAILY 2012 | www.mobileworldcongress.com
  • 9. ADVERTORIAL MWC12 Daily DAY2_DAY2 23/02/2012 14:23 Page 9 1.6Gbps Downlink Throughput: The ARU features the world’s highest single-unit throughput. Other features include: • Broadband support—one ARU can simultaneously support three different bands, including 1.8GHz, 2.1GHz, and 2.6GHz. • Wider IBW (Instant Bandwidth)—each module utilizes IBW at 40 MHz to support higher throughput. • A high-degree of integration—each module is very small, so one slim ARU enables the assembly of up to three modules. • Split-cell functionality—capacity is effectively doubled by splitting existing single sectors ARU and in two; even with interference considered, capacity can be increased by up to 80%. • User-targeting beamforming—boosts downlink throughput. Giga-Level Uplink Throughput: The ARU’s uplink and downlink throughput operate on a giga level. In a connected world with endless possibilities, uplink traffic is certain to increase AtomCell, due to the increased ease of posting video and other high-bandwidth content online. Uplink capability will thus become more and more important for mobile networks. The ARU is specifically designed to meet such challenges with its 4-way receiver technology, which is capable of boosting gain by up to 40% to help uplink throughput reach 850Mbps. Creating a Adaptable Configurations: As an operator’s business grows, the need to increase network capacity becomes more important. An SDR (Software Defined Radio)-based ARU enables easy network upgrade for greater capacity. After acquiring new spectrum, operators can add more modules in different bands, or split single sectors into two for network expansion, ATOMCELL, THE WORLD’S MOST INTEGRATED BASE STATION with no new site space needed. Connected Due to increased traffic and coverage requirements, small cells are playing more and more of an important role in the industry. In addition to macro cells, operators need small cells to cover blind spots or offload to macro cells. Small cells help improve network World performance and provide better service to end users in a connected world. Finding site locations for small cells is difficult since their coverage area is limited. Accommodating their backhaul is also a challenge. The AtomCell, Huawei’s small cell solution, is designed to address these problems. • Over the past 10 years, the number of mobile subscribers has increased from 800 million to 5.8 billion. • Over the past 5 years, hundreds of thousands mobile applications have been made available for download. • Over the last 2 years, more and more smartphones have been sold, replacing feature phones. We live in a world where our lives and behavior have been changed by mobile communications. We are living in a connected world. The Atom constitutes the basic component of Huawei’s AtomCell solution. Utilizing advanced technologies, the Atom integrates baseband, radio frequency, and power Traditional mobile networks are not able to meet increasing demands on amplifier functionality into one small box. Using this component and a suitable antenna traffic. To achieve success in this new world, we need new solutions. module, many different kinds of products can be assembled (RRU, base station etc.). Supporting 4T4R, two Atom units can be used to assemble a device that supports 8T8R and even 16T16R, to support higher-order MIMO for better performance. The AtomCell is ARU (Adaptive Radio Unit), Supports 12 times Capacity Expansion also the world’s first micro base station to support user-targeting beamforming. (Maximum Configuration) It has become increasingly difficult for operators to find space to build sites, even as the Among all the challenges facing small-cell solutions, backhaul issues are the most need to support huge volumes of traffic continues to grow. significant, as small cells need to be installed where traditional backhaul cannot be reached. Huawei’s ARU (Adaptive Radio Unit) is ideal for deployment in cases where space is limited The AtomCell integrates different transmission functionalities (ADSL, Optical, FE) to meet but the need for capacity is great. The total size of its integrated antenna and radio unit is different application scenarios. Customized microwave solutions have also been developed comparable to a standalone antenna, and its modular design can be easily configured. for our small-cell solutions. The ARU can simultaneously support three separate bands over three different modes, The AtomCell is designed according to the concepts of site optimization and ease of and supports cell splitting to improve overall cell capacity by up to 80%. deployment—One Site, One Box. Atom Atom Cell MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS DAILY 2012 | www.mobileworldcongress.com Tuesday 28th February PAGE 9
  • 10. MONEY NEWS Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) By Richard Handford has been selected by Intel to deliver lifecycle management of the embedded secure By Paul Rasmussen elements within Intel’s smartphone reference device. G&D will manage the partitioning and key MWC12 Daily DAY2_DAY2 27/02/2012 19:45 Page 10 management of the embedded secure elements over-the-air. Embedded secure elements provide an additional protected area for security-sensitive applications such as payments and ticketing using NFC. NEWS IN BRIEF... Mobile money MTN first Commenting on the agreement, Ericsson President and CEO, Hans Gemalto’s UpTeq NFC SIM Vestberg, said that 2012 would be a service flourishes in to adopt vault offers mobile operators year of partnership across the higher return on investment emerging mCommerce eco-system. earthquake’s wake Ericsson’s from their NFC roll-outs, and “MTN has long been an early security for protecting mobile adopter in mobile money, and this transactions. The new SIM new partnership builds on our mWallet enables mobile operators to Viola has attracted 364,000 ongoing relationship of Intel selects G&D install and manage new NFC registered users, an October 2011 collaboration. Driving accelerated services even after issuing it aitian mobile operator Viola figure that Liautaud says has grown time to market for operators and H to end users. UpTeq NFC is last month passed US$4 subsequently by about 15,000- linking wallet accounts to purchases designed as a high-end million of payroll transactions 20,000 additional users. The take-up across multiple payment systems is security device to handle the carried over its T-Cash mobile money means T-Cash has achieved 30 TN is to be the first a clear next step in next generation M processing, storage and service, an indication of the service’s percent penetration of its 1.2 million operator to deploy mobile financial services." verification of sensitive data. popularity and its role in the country base in just over one year since Ericsson’s Converged This move follows a period of following a devastating earthquake launch. Leading rival Digicel offers Wallet service across its operations close co-operation between MTN two years ago, according to a Mobile an alternative mobile money service in Africa and the Middle East. and Ericsson on the Converged World Daily interview with the which is called TchoTcho Mobile. Ericsson said that its technology Wallet technology, with MTN By Richard Handford Sybase 365’s mobile operator’s acting CEO Pierre Liautaud. Viola’s T-Cash service is based would enable MTN to fast-track the being one of the first operators to commerce platform is Many NGOs that came to the on the USSD data channel and the deployment of mWallet services by deploy Ericsson's pre-paid designed to address mobile country in the wake of the January mobile money platform is supplied integrating its Converged Wallet software back in 1998. The banking, mobile payments 2010 earthquake use T-Cash’s payroll by vendor MoreMagic. T-Cash has service into MTN’s pre-paid company said it would deploy the and mobile money services service to distribute aid payments so been nominated for a Global charging system. Converged Wallet service as a pilot for developed and emerging boosting its take-up. Viola originally Mobile Award at this year’s Mobile "Optimising the mobile money in a number of its operations this markets. The platform planned for money transfers between World Congress. consumer experience directly impacts year, with a view to a wide enables banks to extend their individuals to be the mainstay of its As well as paying their own staff, consumer stickiness,” said Christian de deployment across all its operations NFC SIM vault relationship to both the retail service but the earthquake NGOs have used T-Cash in other Faria, MTN’s Group Chief in Africa and the Middle East. and business customer dramatically changed the operator’s ways. For instance Mercy Corps Commercial Officer. “With Ericsson Ericsson added that it would be through the mobile channel, thinking. Instead, payroll came to the uses the service to distribute Converged Wallet we can now address the prime integration contractor for and to create new services fore after the service’s launch in vouchers as part of its development our strategic priorities by enabling the MTN mWallet project which and improve customer December 2010. programme for small businesses. rapid response to our consumer's would include providing software loyalty. It supports mobile Haiti is a good candidate for The same NGO piloted the service preferences and expectations." and managed services. payments services that mobile money anyway because it is before T-Cash’s wider launch. By Richard Handford enable consumers to use a cash economy where relatively few In addition to payroll services, their mobile devices to pay of the population hold a bank T-Cash can be used for P2P Isis signs up cards for real-world goods and account. For instance, the country transfers, purchasing goods in retail services. This latest release has approximately 25,000 credit outlets and paying bills. adds mobile money capability cards and 50,000 debit cards out of a Liautaud has not been surprised for its mobile wallet to the platform for total population of 9-10 million by the service’s take-up. “No branchless banking. giving an opportunity for mobile because I used to work in a bank in money services. “The earthquake the early nineties. I left because they provided a window to realise the did not understand the future was Mobile commerce value of such services compared to electronic payments. I knew that platform other countries,” says Liautaud. Haiti had a need for such payments.” sis, the joint venture between The mobile wallet service, which I three leading US mobile operators, has reached agreement with Chase, Capital One Vodafone will be offered across the operator’s footprint, will be based on Visa’s pre- and Barclaycard so that their credit, debit and prepaid cards will be and Visa paid account and offered to consumers in partnership with the placed in the venture’s mobile wallet, it has announced at Mobile in mPay card company’s issuers. Initial launch of the service will be World Congress. Consumers who hold accounts partnership in Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Turkey and the US in the current with the three banks will be able to put their cards into an Isis mobile financial year. Other countries within wallet and shop at participating the mobile operator’s footprint will retailers when the venture’s service follow over time. launches in mid-2012, starting in Salt odafone and Visa have Other financial institutions as well Lake City, Utah and Austin, Texas. V announced a worldwide partnership that will enable consumers to pay for goods and as retailers, transport and utility companies are welcome to of fer their services within Vodafone’s wallet. The announcement with the three financial institutions follows the announcement by Isis in July any major payment card and put it inside the mobile wallet. services using their mobile phones. In developed markets in Europe, 2011 that it would work with the top The Isis mobile wallet will offer The two companies will develop a North American and Australia, users four US payment networks: Visa, the ability to pay, redeem coupons Vodafone-branded service supported of the new service will be able to make MasterCard, Discover and and accrue loyalty points. Chase, by Visa’s payment system. They say purchases using NFC-enabled American Express. Isis’s Capital One and Barclaycard will the link-up is “the world’s largest smartphones equipped with Visa relationship with the four payments tailor their card services for the new mobile payments partnership”. payWave mobile payment technology. networks means banks can enable mobile wallet. PAGE 10 Tuesday 28th February MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS DAILY 2012 | www.mobileworldcongress.com