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    This document discusses Mobifone's strategy for spectrum refarming in Vietnam. Spectrum refarming involves reallocating spectrum from older technologies like 2G to newer technologies like 4G LTE. Mobifone refarmed part of its 1800MHz spectrum from GSM to LTE. This was done in phases, starting with 10MHz for LTE and expanding to 15MHz and eventually 20MHz. Mobifone deployed LTE in the 1800MHz band using a "sandwich allocation" with LTE in the center and GSM channels on the edges. Mobifone evaluated traffic patterns and deployed LTE initially in major cities like Ho Chi Minh City, where refarming 92% of sites reduced GSM channels

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    This document discusses Mobifone's strategy for spectrum refarming in Vietnam. Spectrum refarming involves reallocating spectrum from older technologies like 2G to newer technologies like 4G LTE. Mobifone refarmed part of its 1800MHz spectrum from GSM to LTE. This was done in phases, starting with 10MHz for LTE and expanding to 15MHz and eventually 20MHz. Mobifone deployed LTE in the 1800MHz band using a "sandwich allocation" with LTE in the center and GSM channels on the edges. Mobifone evaluated traffic patterns and deployed LTE initially in major cities like Ho Chi Minh City, where refarming 92% of sites reduced GSM channels

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    This document discusses Mobifone's strategy for spectrum refarming in Vietnam. Spectrum refarming involves reallocating spectrum from older technologies like 2G to newer technologies like 4G LTE. Mobifone refarmed part of its 1800MHz spectrum from GSM to LTE. This was done in phases, starting with 10MHz for LTE and expanding to 15MHz and eventually 20MHz. Mobifone deployed LTE in the 1800MHz band using a "sandwich allocation" with LTE in the center and GSM channels on the edges. Mobifone evaluated traffic patterns and deployed LTE initially in major cities like Ho Chi Minh City, where refarming 92% of sites reduced GSM channels

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    This document discusses Mobifone's strategy for spectrum refarming in Vietnam. Spectrum refarming involves reallocating spectrum from older technologies like 2G to newer technologies like 4G LTE. Mobifone refarmed part of its 1800MHz spectrum from GSM to LTE. This was done in phases, starting with 10MHz for LTE and expanding to 15MHz and eventually 20MHz. Mobifone deployed LTE in the 1800MHz band using a "sandwich allocation" with LTE in the center and GSM channels on the edges. Mobifone evaluated traffic patterns and deployed LTE initially in major cities like Ho Chi Minh City, where refarming 92% of sites reduced GSM channels

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    TNG CNG TY VIN THNG MOBIFONE

    TRUNG TM O KIM V SA CHA THIT B VIN THNG MOBIFONE

    1800 MHZ SPECTRUM REFARMING

    KEY TO LTE IN MOBIFONE


    Nguyen Xuan Nghia
    Director of TMC Mobifone Corp

    Hanoi, 08/2016

    CONTENT
    01

    SPECTRUM RE-FARMING
    OVERVIEW

    SPECTRUM RE-FARMING
    IN MOBIFONE

    03

    STUDY CASES IN
    MOBIFONE

    02

    CONTENT
    01

    SPECTRUM RE-FARMING
    OVERVIEW

    02

    03

    WHAT IS SPECTRUM RE-FARMING?


    Spectrum Re-farming is strategic for dealing with 2G, 3G & LTE in Parallel
    Spectrum Re-farming enables operators to evolve their networks and achieve
    technology and network performance targets
    Spectrum Re-farming for GSM Networks is a service that allows an existing GSM
    Network to operate with a tighter spectrum, ensuring maintenance of best possible
    performance levels

    When voice service is the


    majority
    More BW for GSM
    Less BW for LTE

    When LTE bears both


    voice/data service

    When data service is the


    majority

    All BW for LTE

    LTE

    Less BW for GSM


    More BW for LTE

    frequency

    LTE
    frequency
    GSM
    frequency

    WHY LTE 1800 MHZ?


    High
    Performance

    Lower TCO
    (Total cost

    of ownership)

    Eco-system
    Ready

    LTE offers higher performance than HSPA+


    Significant coverage improvement with 1800 MHz vs 2600 MHz

    Spectrum available & technology neutral


    Re-use of existing infrastructure
    Re-use of 2G/3G equipment

    Abundant spectrum in 1800 MHz band.

    LTE 1800 Infrastructure is ready


    LTE 1800 Terminal ecosystem is ready

    WHY LTE 1800 MHZ?


    18
    16
    14
    12
    10
    8
    6
    4
    2
    0

    Average throughput
    in 10MHz

    ms

    Latency

    Coverage Gain with Low


    Frequency

    80
    17Mbps

    60
    40

    13Mbps

    800MHz

    1800MHz

    20
    200kbps
    EDGE

    2.6GHz

    10
    HSPA+ R8

    LTE

    4dB
    10dB

    HSPA+

    LTE

    Urban

    Wide Coverage

    Distance

    Source of data: G/L 1800M Refarming Solution A Promising Option for MBB Market (Huawei)

    LTE1800 Provides Better Coverage & User Experience

    CONTENT
    01
    SPECTRUM RE-FARMING
    IN MOBIFONE

    03

    02

    MOBIFONES CHALLENGE

    The massive growth


    in mobile data traffic

    Extremely increasing
    number of Smartphones
    High requirements of
    Customer for the
    quality of Data service

    Technology trends: Operators


    commercially launched
    LTE network

    GSM

    Limited spectrum available


    for LTE, and the price for
    LTE spectrum is high

    f1

    f2

    f1

    f2
    LTE

    GSM

    Other
    GSM

    MOBIFONE - REFARMING STRATEGY


    1800MHz: GSM

    1800MHz: GSM+LTE

    Lightly used

    frequency
    frequency

    Phase 1: Refarming
    10 MHZ

    Re-farming in 1800M maximizes


    the spectrum potential
    Mobifone has the license to use
    20Mhz bandwidth in 1800Mhz
    spectrum (UL: 1730.1 1750.1/ DL:
    1825.1 1845.1 Mhz).

    Phase 3: using 20MHZ


    for LTE

    Phase 2:
    enhance to 15
    MHZ

    MOBIFONE - SPECTRUM PLANNING


    GSM

    f
    1
    f
    1

    f
    2

    Other
    GSM

    GSM

    f
    2
    LTE

    LTE central frequency


    EARFCN 1501 (UL/DL 1740.1/1835.1 Mhz

    IBC & BCCH TCH

    LTE

    TCH

    TCH channels are allocated at beginning and ending


    of LTE channel. BW for TCH is 5 MHZ
    BCCH
    1800Mhz band

    LTE 10 Mhz
    GSM 5Mhz

    Using sandwich Allocation Mode


    To avoid interference for the LTE1800 and
    other operators system
    To save more GSM frequencies when using
    non-standard separation
    Center Frequency for LTE is 1501

    GSM 5Mhz

    BCCH channels are allocated at beginning and


    ending of 1800Mhz spectrum. BW for BCCH is 5
    MHZ

    MOBIFONE REFARMING DEPLOYMENT


    Spectrum
    allocation
    Capacity &
    Coverage
    consideration

    Interference
    Mitigation

    Efficiency
    Improvement

    Sandwich frequency
    allocation

    Flexible spectrum
    sharing

    G/L Co-site
    deployment
    Compact bandwidth
    Guard Band

    Service migration
    consideration

    Refarming Buffer
    Zone

    Retain GSM capacity


    (TFR, VAMOS)

    MOBIFONE REFARMING DEPLOYMENT


    Evaluating 2G 1800Mhz traffic to design the network configuration
    after re-farming. Using the load balancing, load sharing strategy
    between GSM900/1800 and UMTS2100

    Collecting measurement report from subscribers on network.


    Building interference matrix for planning/optimizing to describe
    the interaction between any cells.
    2
    Planning the LTEs deployment area, as well as buffer zone to
    eliminate interference of frequency

    3
    Planning the frequency based on Interference Matrix

    CONTENT
    01
    02

    03

    STUDY CASES IN
    MOBIFONE

    MOBIFONE REFARMING IN HCM CITY


    HCM City is the biggest market of
    Mobifone. The number of site, subscribers,
    traffic is extremely high to compare
    other provinces.
    Re-farming in HCM City is a tough
    challenge for engineer, not only for
    Mobifone but also for other vendors.
    Frequency pattern applied:
    - BCCH reuse pattern: 4/12
    - TCH hopping type: Synthesize 1:1; 24
    channels.
    - Max configuration: 4/4/4

    MOBIFONE REFARMING IN HCM CITY


    Mobifone did the refaming 1800Mhz for
    LTE in HCM City in the
    end of March and early
    April
    Total
    impacts
    on
    network: 92% of total
    sites were reduced the
    TCH channel; 30% of
    total sites were reduced
    the BCCH channel.
    KPI after re-farming
    are stable

    MOBIFONE REFARMING IN HCM CITY


    Checking the frequency clearance for LTE after re-farming 1800Mhz in HCM city
    After re-farming, some
    areas still have high
    interference from GSM
    system.
    To avoid these problems
    above, some issues need to
    be checked carefully in
    designing phase:
    - Size of the buffer zone
    - Optimize the 2G site
    physical design (antenna
    high, tilt, azimuth)

    CONTENT
    01

    SPECTRUM RE-FARMING
    OVERVIEW

    SPECTRUM RE-FARMING
    IN MOBIFONE

    03

    STUDY CASES IN
    MOBIFONE

    02

    THANK YOU!

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