1. Ranko Pinter TETRA Association
TETRA Positioning
Ranko Pinter
TETRA Association

2. Agenda TETRA market overview What makes TETRA different
Comparison with other technologies incl. Tetrapol/ GSM/ CDMA
Future/ roadmap – TETRA & convergence
Conclusions

3. Global TETRA Contacts by Sept. 2003

4. Global TETRA Contracts - by Region

5. Global TETRA Contracts - by Sector

6. Global TETRA Contracts 2003 Summary
Figures collated in a period from March to September 2003
Total number of Contracts 325 from 55 countries
84% growth over last 14 months (176 in 2002)
Transportation fastest growing Sector (139%)
Latin America fastest growing Region (156%)

7. TETRA - Three Key Markets
Private Operator
PMR
Self-provided
Public Operator
PAMR

8. TETRA Versatility
Mobile
Data
Radio
Telephony

9. Markets & Applications (Ansoff)
New
Related
Existing
Vehicle Location/ Navigation
Fleets Private Users
Video
Streaming
Extending
Functionality
to existing
PMR/PAMR
Applications
Information Retrieval
Monitoring/ Tracking
Picture Messaging
Internet & Intranet
Extending
TETRA to
white collar
workers in
existing
industry
segments
“Blue Collar”
PMR / PAMR
Voice Plus
Limited Data
Markets

10. Comms Technology - Traditional
Increasing
Information
Importance
Specialist
Non-Tactical Military
Police and Security
Customs and Excise
PMR
Fire and Ambulance
Mineral Extraction
Transport and Utilities
Cellular
Increasing
User Base
Business and General Commerce
Fixed Telephony
Consumer

11. Comms Technology – New Positioning
Increasing
Information
Importance
PMR
TETRA
Non-tactical Military (COTS)
Police and Security
Customs and Excise
Fire and Ambulance
Mineral Extraction
Transport and Utilities
Business and General Commerce
Consumer
Cellular - GSM
Increasing
User Base
Fixed Telephony

12. TETRA for Emergency Services
Disasters – both natural and man-made
Major Incidents/ fires
Incidents
RTA (Road Traffic Accidents)
Routine policing

13. TETRA for Utilities Storms Floodings Earthquakes
Maintenance of power-lines and gas pipes

14. TETRA for Transportation
Road closures/ diversions due to scheduled or unscheduled events, e.g. RTA, roadwork, public demonstration, etc.
Timetable changes
Security alerts
Address queries (taxis)
Track-to-train (railways)

15. Urgency & Importance of Info
‘Life or
Death’
TETRA
Information Importance
GSM
High
(non-
routine)
DECT
Low-to-
Medium
(routine)
Non-urgent
<1 min
Urgent
<10 sec
Immediate
<1 sec
Time-criticality of call set-up

16. TETRA spectrum efficiency
200kHz bandwidth
GSM
Half-rate GSM
(future)
PMR 25 kHz
PMR 12.5 kHz
APCO25 (US)
Tetrapol
TETRA
200 kHz carrier
8 channels
16 channels
25 kHz channel
8 channels / 200 kHz
12.5 kHz channels
16 channels / 200 kHz
25 kHz carrier
4 channels / carrier
32 channels / 200 kHz

17. Traffic Flows for Cellular
PSTN/ ISDN
20% of PSTN Calls are PSTN initiated
PSTN Calls
85%
Inter-Region
Calls - 5%
MOBILE NETWORK
REGION A
Introduction
Simoco International formerly Philips Radio Communications.
Principle activities;
Professional private mobile radio systems,
Tetra digital radio systems,
Command and Control, Police, Fire, Ambulance and Utilities.
Presentation - Role for GSM in the Development of UMTS
Structure
How current mobile and personal systems are responding to the changes in society and meeting the needs of the personal communication user.
The extent that GSM is meeting those needs.
What is needed from the Next Generation - UMTS.
How UMTS will evolve from GSM.
How the development of UMTS is being managed across Europe.
Integration of standards.
Time table for introduction.
but firstly some background to the societal changes which are occurring as we move to the information society.
MOBILE NETWORK
REGION B
Intra- Region
Calls - 10%
80% of PSTN calls are mobile-initiated 2 10

18. Traffic Flows for PMR PSTN/ ISDN Inter-Region MOBILE NETWORK
REGION A
Intra- Region
Calls - 90%
PSTN Calls- 5%
<1% of PSTN Calls are PSTN initiated
REGION B
PSTN/ ISDN
Inter-Region
Calls - 5%
60% of Intra-Region Calls are
to and from a Despatcher
Introduction
Simoco International formerly Philips Radio Communications.
Principle activities;
Professional private mobile radio systems,
Tetra digital radio systems,
Command and Control, Police, Fire, Ambulance and Utilities.
Presentation - Role for GSM in the Development of UMTS
Structure
How current mobile and personal systems are responding to the changes in society and meeting the needs of the personal communication user.
The extent that GSM is meeting those needs.
What is needed from the Next Generation - UMTS.
How UMTS will evolve from GSM.
How the development of UMTS is being managed across Europe.
Integration of standards.
Time table for introduction.
but firstly some background to the societal changes which are occurring as we move to the information society. 2 10

19. TETRA Codec - Block Diagram
analogue
TETRA
TETRA
TETRA
TETRA
speech
Voice
Voice
Voice
Voice
Encoder
Encoder
Decoder
Decoder
8 kHz
8 KHz
8 kHz
8 kHz
Sampling
Sampling
Importance
Sampling
4.567 kbps
4.567 kbps
Factor
16 bits
16 bits
16 bits
TETRA
TETRA
TETRA
TETRA
Channel
Channel
Channel
Channel
Encoding
Encoding
Decoding
Decoding
FEC+ CRC
FEC+ CRC
Bad
Frame
Flag
Three levels of Hi Hi
bit stream
Med..
Med.. TX TX RX RX
protection FEC
7.2 kbps
7.2 kbps No No

20. TETRA-GSM Codec Comparison
Subjective Assessment - Mean Opinion Score (MOS)
For ‘clean’ speech, with IRS processed input (weighted input frequency characteristic), these results put both TETRA and GSM Full-rate codecs between Scores 3 & 4.
MOS=Mean Opinion Score
MOS Excellent quality : Imperceptible impairment
MOS Good quality : Just perceptible impairment, but not annoying

21. Codec Performance Comparison with analogue FM TETRA Quality FM Range
Low background noise
Quality
TETRA FM
High background noise
Close to the base station at high carrier-to-noise ratio (C/N) and in areas of low background noise, FM quality just has the edge over TETRA, however, if there is high background noise TETRA gives superior quality.
As the range from the base station increases and the carrier-to-noise ratio worsens, FM speech quality falls off gradually, but TETRA quality holds up for longer. PMR systems are frequently operating near their limits of coverage and this extra quality with TETRA is valuable.
Range

22. TETRA Codec Comparison with analogue FM 1 Male Moderate C/N
1 & 2
3 & 4
Comparison with analogue FM
Quality FM
ETSI demo 2 phrases Analogue
2 phrases TETRA
TETRA
Range
1 Male Moderate C/N
2 Female Moderate C/N
TETRA channel subjected to various Error Patterns (Typical Urban and Hilly Terrain). Analogue channel noise set for comparable RF quality. Error/noise models are not the same, but are meant to represent equivalent conditions.
2 phrases - first for Reference Condition (FM), then for TETRA.
1 Male, medium audio level, moderate RF quality
2 Female, medium audio level, moderate RF quality
3 Male, low audio level, poor RF quality
4 Female, low audio level, poor RF quality
3 Male Poor C/N
4 Female Poor C/N

23. Mobile Communications Convergence
Phones
Notebooks
Pagers with
PDAs with
RF modems

24. TETRA and Other Standards
Features
Traffic Channel (kHz)
Wide Area Coverage (WAC)
Inherent Ease of Duplex
Telephony Services
PMR Services
Priority & Pre-emption
Call set-up Time < 0.5 sec
Group & Broadcast Call
Queued Call
Comprehensive Security
Terminal Autonomy (DMO)
Robust Low-rate Codec
Concurrent Voice & Data
TETRA
6.25
GSM 25
DECT
166.6
APCO25
12.5 ü

25. TETRA and Tetrapol
Tetrapol based on Matracom technolgy developed for French MoI
Proprietary technology developed by Matra whilst developing ETSI Standard with others
Named Tetrapol after ETSI named TETRA
Attempt to have it adopted by ETSI as standard in 1998 comprehensively rejected
Today still a single source proprietary technology of EADS

26. TETRA and GSM-R Taiwan High Speed Rail
In competition with GSM-R TETRA won the Contract
Taiwan High Speed Rail
Top speed 300 KM/hr.

27. Up to 4 times better coverage with TETRA than GSM-R
TETRA and GSM-R (2)
From GSM-R to TETRA
Cologne-Frankfurt
177 km
47 km tunnels
56 base stations
3,2 Km coverage average
Taiwan HSR
347 km
120 km tunnels
26 base stations
13,3 Km coverage average
x 2
x 2.5
x 0.5
x 4
Source:
Up to 4 times better coverage with TETRA than GSM-R

28. TETRA and GPRS/ 3G Push-To-Talk
Proposal for adding Push-to-Talk (PTT) facility to GPRS and 3G
Aimed at the recreational / family use, e.g.
Family holidays, camping, shopping, mother-to-child safety
Low Qality of Service
Expected call setup around 5 sec. & message delay 1-3 sec.
Limited group size
No Supplementary Services like Late Entry, DGNA, Ambience Listening, discreet Listening,
Standard GSM security
Threat?
Delays by the non-informed decision makers
Extra opportunities for Consultants!

29. TETRA and GSM
Use of GSM network is an attractive alternative to rolling out a new nationwide network for Emergency Services
So far it has been rejected in all countries that have considered it
This has not prevented several others still going through the same process, e.g.
Norway (GSM-R; Telenor; Nexia)
Sweden (Rakel; Stelacon)
Germany (Vodaphone)
Denmark (UMTS)

30. TETRA and GSM
GSM-BOS is a proposal by Vodafone Germany to upgrade their GSM network to meet the needs of Emergency Services
Success crucially depends on:
Ability to push several key items through ETSI standardisation and fast
ADCI (Advanced Data Call Items)
Connectivity Server Interfaces
Availability of professional dual-mode GSM-TETRA DMO terminals
Similar to ill-fated GSM-Pro promoted by Ericsson for several years

31. ASCI features (incl. GSM-R and GSM 2+) and ADCI
TETRA and GSM-BOS
DMO*
Connectivity Server
ASCI features (incl. GSM-R and GSM 2+) and ADCI
Public GSM Network
ASCI = Advanced Speech Call Items; ADCI = Advanced Data Call Items; DMO = TETRA

32. TETRA and CDMA
CDMA is a broadand technology designed for hi-volume consumer cellular market
Minimum roll-out requires 2 x 1.25MHz for initial CDMA carrier (same frequency used in every cell) - provides voice channels
Additional 2 x 1.25MHz per additional CDMA carrier
2 CDMA carriers plus guard bands will require around 2 x 3 MHz
1.25 MHz
CDMA Carrier #1
Narrowband Channels
Guard Band
200 kHz
CDMA Carrier #2
Approx 3 MHz

33. TETRA and CDMA According to Lucent:
The world needs more economical 3G solution for rural coverage
Lower frequencies are the key to reducing the costs
They are looking for support to have the 400 MHz range recognised by the ITU as an identified 3G band
Some addaptations were made for PAMR market
Appears to be the strategy for getting into European cellular market ”by the backdoor”
East Europe
As a replacement technology for the old analogue NMT
West Europe
Changing Dolphin licence for TETRA PAMR

34. TETRA Market Opportunities - @LIS
@LIS is ALiance for the Information Society
4-year programme launched by EC
Total budget of 77.5M€
TETRA is ETSI partner on its stand at Futurecom 2003
TETRA MoU plans to hold series of workshops & seminars in 2004/5
The only multivendor technology for PMR in Latin America

35. TETRA Market Opportunities - @LIS PMR Technologies Marketed in Latin America
MPT 1327
Tetrapol
APCO iDEN
EDACS
TETRA
LTR
TETRA marketing activity started only recently

36. TETRA In a Nutshell
TETRA is cellular+ because, in addition to mobile telephony (voice and data):
TETRA enables time-critical non-routine, communication to the professionals operating in closed-user-groups,
TETRA offers a wide range of PMR services and higher levels of security & encryption
TETRA is designed to operate in the critical situations that require highly dependable - secure, robust and resilient - equipments and systems.

37. TETRA - 4WD / SUV of Mobile Comms

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39. Conclusions
TETRA is following GSM experience that has shown that standardisation & globalisation are the key ingredients for success of any technology
Growing threat to safety and security of public is increasingly demanding the use of professional, robust & resilient communication equipments and systems, like TETRA - designed for the task
TETRA standard has propelled the PMR and PAMR onto the centre stage of the Global Mobile Communications.
With addition of Release 2 TETRA will, for the foreseeable future, continue to compliment Cellular.

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