CONTENTS

Policy on Intellectual Property Right (IPR)
 1     Introduction
 2     Traffic and user penetration information of existing mobile broadband deployments (until 2011)
        2.1     Global IMT traffic from 2006 to 2011
        2.2     Global IMT subscriber information from 2006 to 2011
 3     Trends contributing to increased demand for mobile broadband
        3.1     New type of devices, such as smart phones, dongles, tablets
        3.2     Mobile Internet usage is increasing
        3.3     Huge increase of mobile software application offerings (Apps)
        3.4     Video traffic is growing dramatically
        3.5     Media rich social networks go mobile
        3.6     Machine-to-machine traffic is growing and expanding to new applications
        3.7     More capable network – user experience improvement
        3.8     Cost reduction and price decrease
        3.9     Several policy initiatives to promote mobile broadband
       3.10     Potential area to increase data traffic
       3.11     Broader user-age demographics and its impact on traffic growth
 4     Mobile broadband forecasts up to 2020 and beyond
        4.1     Reviewing the previous ITU market forecast study
        4.2     Mobile data traffic forecast
 5     Conclusions
Abbreviations
Annex 1  List of related ITU-R Recommendations and ITU-R Reports
Annex 2  Detailed information of existing mobile broadband implementation
       A2.1     Introduction
       A2.2     Global information on mobile broadband implementations
       A2.3     Regional specific information, Region 1
       A2.4     Regional specific information, Region 2
       A2.5     Regional specific information, Region 3
Annex 3  Detailed information on usage and application trends of mobile broadband
       A3.1     Introduction
       A3.2     New type of devices, such as smartphones, dongles, tablets
       A3.3     Mobile Internet usage is increasing
       A3.4     Huge increase of mobile software applications offerings (Apps)
       A3.5     Video traffic is growing dramatically
       A3.6     Media rich social networks go mobile
       A3.7     Machine-to-machine traffic is growing and expanding to new applications
       A3.8     More capable network – user experience improvement
       A3.9     Broader user-age demographics and its impact on traffic demand
      A3.10     Other trends identified in addition to above key trends
                  A3.10.1     Mobile voice traffic will have a limited growth
                  A3.10.2      HD (high definition) Voice will challenge VoIP
                  A3.10.3     Short messaging is increasing
                  A3.10.4      Multimedia messaging has not been widely adopted
                  A3.10.5      Peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic in mobile broadband network is becoming more and more important
                  A3.10.6      Other aspects related to trends
Annex 4  New mobile broadband forecasts
       A4.1     Regulator views
       A4.2     Industry views
                  A4.2.1     New mobile traffic forecasts by UMTS Forum
Traffic mix – Worldwide
                  A4.2.3     Market of pre-IMT-2000 and IMT-2000 mobile systems
       A4.3     Global IMT subscriber development forecast
Annex 5  Various measures to respond to increased mobile broadband traffic
       A5.1     Introduction
       A5.2     Measures to meet the expanding traffic demand
                  A5.2.1     New air interface technologies
                  A5.2.2     Network densification
                  A5.2.3     Offloading of traffic
                  A5.2.4     Addressing spectrum availability
Annex 6  International, regional and national mobile broadband initiatives
       A6.1     International broadband initiatives
       A6.2     Regional broadband initiatives
       A6.3     National broadband plans