LTE is now a reality in Switzerland, will all operators busy improving their 4G coverage throughout the country. The technological advantages that this new standard brings to mobile communication are clear. But how will we all best benefit from it? What will LTE enable for people, business and society?
This presentation is the introduction (1st) presentation of 4 other presentations (from speakers)
3. What is Mobile Monday?
• Who?
– 75 chapters organized around the world, started in Finland in 2000
– 100,000 mobile industry professionals, developers and influencers
– Non-profit organization (association) of volunteers
• What?
– Networking by organizing events to share ideas, best practices and trends
from global markets
• When?
– On the 1st Monday of the month
• Where?
– Worldwide (London, Rio, Singapore, Miami, Sofia, Toronto, Copenhagen,…)
– Switzerland (Zurich, Lausanne, Bern, Fribourg)
4. MoMo Switzerland
• Find/Select topic suggestions
• Organize event
• Find/Invite speakers
• Find Sponsors (season or
evening)
• Arrange logistics
• Invite participants and
colleagues
• Looking for new committee
members
5. Upcoming meetings
• November - Mobile Education
• December – Mobile wearables & health
• 2014 : please contact us if you have ideas and feel free
to join our committee…
6. Volunteers, participants…
If you would like to find out about sponsoring, or speaking at an event,
please contact us at: info@mobilemonday.ch
To stay informed on upcoming events
sign up for our mailing list: www.mobilemonday.ch
7. Tonight’s Experts
Federico Quevedo
Senior product manager
Orange Communications
Stephane Paccaudor
Director Business Development
M2M
Hewlett Packard
Eric Gagnaux
Senior Business Development
Manager EMEA
Wyless
Sanne Stijve
Senior MBB Engagement
Manager, Mobile Broadband
Practice
Ericsson
9. LTE – is there a market demand?
Deloitte Report «Brits love LTE»
More than one-third of the respondents said they were likely to
choose an LTE phone when they replaced their current phone, a 20
per cent increase from 2012. ...
…awareness is even higher among smartphone owners, with
almost half (46 per cent) of the respondents saying that they are
likely to choose an LTE phone as their next phone.
10. Hitting the (telecom) headlines...
• SoftBank, Huawei LTE-A test reaches 770 Mbps in 3.5 GHz band
• AT&T's VoLTE efforts still in the lab
• Dialogic enables interworking between LTE, 3G and Wi-Fi
• Apple's new iPhones support 17 LTE bands, including TD-LTE
• LTE Broadcast: Coming to a European operator soon?