CONTENTS

 

 1     Introduction
 
2     Traffic forecast
        2.1     Subscriber numbers
        2.2     User categorization
        2.3     Radio services and applications used by each category
                  2.3.1     Non-multimedia
                  2.3.2     Multimedia
        2.4     Usage profiles
        2.5     User traffic per service application
        2.6     Traffic volume forecast
 
3     Assessment of spectrum requirements
        3.1     Methodology
                  3.1.1     Multimedia traffic
                  3.1.2     Non-multimedia traffic
                  3.1.3     Additional comments on the derivation of busy hour traffic
        3.2     Input parameters
        3.3     Results
 4     Sensitivity analysis
 
5     Radio regulatory background
 
6     Summary and conclusions