• How the NGMN Alliance drives the development of LTE along with Mobile WiMAX and UMB.
• In how far does LTE fulfil the performance requirements of NGMN?
• Does LTE standardisation & development meet the NGMN roadmap?
• How NGMN drives LTE in the areas of terminal requirements, features, testing & certification.
• How NGMN drives development of the NGMN / LTE ecosystem.

• What internet applications can be adapted for mobile internet
• What will be the most important services for LTE (e.g., VoIP, IPTV, VoD and mobile internet)
• Understanding content provider’s mobile internet requirements
• Exploring the potential of location based services over LTE
• What are the device implications? Will LTE enable a richer QoS?
• How will devices evolve over time, and what are the interworking implications?

• Present development of mobile data in the Nordic/Baltic area
• What are main the drivers for higher data rates?
• Why should LTE be the next step?
• Assessing different deployment scenarios in the Nordic/Baltic area their likely hood

• Examining the technical and strategic challenges associated an LTE deployment
• What are the critical success factors for an LTE deployment?
• Exploring the versatility of LTE as a cost effective solution for mobile broadband
• Potential for further improved cost-efficiency

• Understanding the end users requirements and developing a user focused business model
• Can fixed and mobile operators work together to provide QoS?
• Regarding the technical feasibilities of LTE, what could its market position be?
• Are there any new applications, services or other opportunities for LTE beyond UMTS?

• Understanding the deployment scenarios for LTE according to the local environment
• What are the effects spectrum allocation, existing networks and regulations?
• Assessing how to re-use the existing assets according to the deployment scenarios so as to maximize the investment

• Will one technology dominate and deliver the necessary cost and performance the markets demand?
• Have we already reached a practical limit of macro-cellular performance?
• Is integrating high and low performance technologies into the network the best way to increase performance and improve capacity and coverage at the same time?
• If small cell topologies are essential will they be centrally managed picocells, end-user deployed femtocells or WiFi?

• Overview of transport requirements in Radio Access Networks
• Suitability of existing RAN Backhaul when introducing LTE
• RAN Backhaul evolution strategies

• How much does the backhaul cost operators and what is the potential cost of the LTE backhaul?
• Comparing various methods of managing the mobile backhaul (fibre, Ethernet, MPLS, wireless backhaul)
• Examining urban and rural areas. Comparing the backhaul solution for different environments.
• Should different solutions be applied for urban and rural areas?
• How cost effective is wireless backhaul

• Market dynamic towards next generation mobile networks
• LTE benefits, technical and strategic challenges
• Deployment and migration scenarios - maximising re-use of existing assets/deployments
• LTE round the corner

• Identifying the interoperability challenges of LTE with GSM and UMTS
• What are the problems with handing over from voice circuit switched to the packet switched network?
• Will LTE replace UMTS and run alongside GSM?
• Will GSM be phased out eventually? What are the possible timescales?
• Telenor’s strategies and experiences with operability issues

• Will the historical growth in wireless traffic continue?
• Where has growth come from and what is the outlook?
  Spectral efficiency, spectrum availability, cell size
• Understanding the link between spectral efficiency, system cost and system complexity
• What lessons can the cellular and WiFi industries learn from each other to deliver an affordable wireless future?

• What are the likely interworking scenarios that need to be considered and what problems does this raise?
• Why is interoperability a standard for LTE?
• What are the associated costs with LTE to be interoperable with WiMAX and UMB?
• Assessing the importance of the interoperability strategy for LTE
• Discussing the possibility of converging all of the OFDM standards into one global 4G standard. Are we too late?

• Which markets are likely to uptake mobile computing and what will their requirements be?
• What will be the usage patterns of an LTE user vs. 3G, how much bandwidth is "enough"?
• How will manufacturers deliver low cost terminals that can provide the data rates required for mobile computing?
• How will multiple radio connections (Wi-Fi, Multicast, Wireless USB, Personal Area Networks etc) affect the business model?
• Examining the challenges of providing low power consumption in high bandwidth applications
• Discussing the convergence problems associated with mobile computing

• Examining the key handset/terminal features and parameters
• Identifying the challenges for handset developers and operators
• What new devices will become available when LTE is deployed?
• What additional standards and features should LTE handsets support?
• How will Software Radio impact on LTE terminals?
• Assessing the challenges of producing multi-mode and multi-handset terminals for LTE?

The high data rates of LTE pose some interesting engineering challenges for handset silicon providers—including how to cope with the power consumption caused by processing billions of instructions per second. Yet more hurdles are posed by miniaturization and the high degree of integration needed to incorporate multiple applications and standards into small form factors. Necessary innovations might include revolutionary processor architectures and technologies capable of handling the demands of next generation handsets. Tom Deitrich will answer your questions about what OEMs and carriers can expect from new end-user devices as they plan LTE deployments.

• Discussing the lessons learnt from the 3G handset strategy
• What should the initial deployment targets be for handsets and terminals?
• Will devices enable handover to UMTS and GSM networks when there is no LTE coverage?
• Examining the consumer segments which must be addressed for profitability
• Learning from experience; the importance of having terminals available (quantity and quality) before the network is launched

• Assessing the complexity of the processing for a LTE terminal
• Understanding the advances in chip technology
• Can silicon manufacturers take a role reducing the cost of terminals to increase profitability for all?
• Replacing chips with high speed processors, what are the advantages and cost implications
• How important will it be to have a re-programmable architecture?
• Examining the power requirements for processors, is the level of power consumption viable?

• Status of standardization and impact on development projects
• Anticipating the test challenges introduced by the new architecture
• Comparing the LTE test scenario in the labs with previous standards and test requirements
• LTE deployment and troubleshooting: is there the need for a new strategic O& M approach?
• LTE, WiMAX and other 3GPP standards coexistence: the need for enhanced network optimization techniques

• Day Two Keynote Plenary Sessions