Mark Keenan, Real Wireless

1. Spectrum Innovation
For INCA Annual conference on 2019/10/16
Mark Keenan _ v1.0
Steering Board Member of the
UK5G Associate and
Advisory Board Member

2. Real Wireless bridges the gap
● Leading independent expert wireless advisory firm
● Technology and business of wireless
● Real Wireless builds bridges between the wireless industry and wireless users
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Help the wireless industry to better understand
and meet the needs of its customers
Help wireless users to get the best from wireless
technologies to benefit business

3. Market Dynamics from Spectrum Innovation
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US: CBRS 3.4 to
3.7GHz for capacity
UK 2010: 800/700
Whitespace for
coverage
Germany: distribute
spectrum between
3.7GHz and 3.8GHz
for local 5G networks.
Accessible to
industrial, small and
medium-sized
businesses
UK 2019:
Ofcom
innovation in
spectrum
sharing
proposals

4. Why is innovation in spectrum needed?
• Exclusive use of spectrum Mobile
Broadband service sector (MNOs)
maintain a strong party line.
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[Source: GSMA Best practice in mobile spectrum licensing, 2019]
Total spectrum assigned for mobile services
• Else governments and regulators risk..
• Deterring investment, extending
upgrade cycles
• Reduced incentives to compete
• Loss of service continuity
• Under utilisation of spectrum

5. Are we at a tipping point?
• Dynamic Spectrum Sharing for a smooth re-
farming of spectrum
• 4G to 5G-NR transition in the same spectrum,
enabling site by site transition
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[source: ISP Review, 2nd Oct 2019]
https://twitter.com/paolopescatore/status/1184013764489809920?s=20
https://www.ericsson.com/en/blog/2019/6/dynamic-spectrum-sharing-standardization

6. Quantification of potential upside for growth in the verticals “Industrial-5G”
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● Digital service economic zoning
● Focus zone: Hamburg Port Authority owned
land, sub-divisions for container area, roads,
access canals etc.
● Externalities: Surrounding City zone with
transport and other use case linked synergies
● Scale of simulated demand:
● HPA zone: 3,000 users, 71 km2
● City Zone: 160,000 residents, 21 km2
● Simulate rational (economic viable) extension of
network (green symbols in map)
● Starting from existing infrastructure
● TCO analysis to determine viability
Analysis zones in Hamburg Port and the surrounding zones
Could a port build a network and gain from revenues
and other benefits beyond its prime economic zone?

7. Example benefit analysis::
Vehicle to Infrastructure vs standard mobile broadband
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● Trade off of specialised V2I revenues vs generalised smart city services
● Quantification of expected data volumes for infotainment and estimate of network extension cost

8. Conclusion
● Regulators are starting to acknowledge that more innovative thinking
around access to spectrum is required
● Enterprise interest in gaining access to spectrum growing and they want
to have more control over their investments
● Industrial applications of spectrum being ring fenced in some countries
● 5G may open up more opportunities for the delivery of services (fixed &
wireless) of a more bespoke nature to industry – can the MNOs adopt or
will this create a platform for niche players to thrive ?
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