Mr. Takehiro Nakamura, RAN Chairman, 3GPP & Director - Radio Access, NTT Docomo
"3GPP is proud to continue our support for the LTE Summit, increasing our participation in the event – to bring you the very latest information about the role of technical specifications and the cooperative effort that creates them. Speakers from operators and manufacturers will add to this standards based vision, making this summit one of the outstanding highlights of the conference calendar in 2013.

Time stops for no man and the summit should also hear about LTE-Advanced strategies and thoughts about standards beyond 3GPP Release 12. The scope of the LTE Summit will also go beyond standards, helping to put LTE plans in to context and provide constructive debate about the future".

India is acclaimed one of the six countries in the world to have commercial LTE services – According to the industry report, LTE subscribers will reach 5 million by end of 2013 worldwide. LTE has now been embraced as the future of commercial wireless communications by most operators in the world and India is no different, Early 2012 India has witnessed first commercial LTE launch. The number of LTE subscribers is set for dynamic growth in the next five years, as operators build and trial LTE in order to cope with the increasing demand of data traffic on their networks. The proposed successful launch of a number of LTE networks in India is driving ever greater adoption of 4G services.

Cerebral Business research is proud to present India’s most loved LTE convention for the 3rd successful year – 3rd LTE Summit 2013 scheduled to be held on 19th April 2013 at Mumbai in association with 3rd Generation Partnership Projects (3GPP) and Broadband Wireless Consortium of India (BWCI).

A wide range of mobile services will be enabled by the deployment of LTE, including streaming video-on-demand, video conferencing, high quality VoIP, high-speed upload of user-generated content, consistent low-latency online gaming, paid dynamic content such as e-newspapers and e-magazines, video-based mobile advertising, on-demand music download and storage, application sharing and cloud-based services etc.

The full fledge commercial roll-out 4G LTE will take place in year 2013 & Operators are very hope full that VoLTE will be the killer application over 4G networks based on their early trails worldwide. Keeping in view current trends & future direction of VoLTE over 4G Networks in India - We have announced LTE Summit 2013 edition with co-located Vo-LTE with dedicated technical session on Vo-LTE.

3rd LTE Summit 2013 is a perfect platform the entire LTE ecosystem to come together to search for new partners and learn from the market leaders about their deployment experiences. Now into consequentive 3rd successful year, LTE Summit Mumbai has firmly established itself as the prestigious LTE conclave in India, bringing together the leaders of the entire LTE ecosystem for unparalleled breadth and depth of discussion around the positive future prospects of mobile broadband in India.

LTE Summit 2013 – Now into Successful 3rd year will address the following key aspects for 4G LTE rollout in India:

• Business models to leverage the key benefits of LTE
• Key drivers to support the LTE services introduction and growth
• Examining the current status of mobile broadband services and future opportunities
• Current update from operators perspective on LTE and their preparation for the next 12 months
• Challenges for the operators to migrate their networks from 3G to LTE
• Key focus areas to influence the rural masses to make use of LTE
• Importance of low cost handsets which will support LTE technology
• The road path for LTE in next 3 to 5 years
• LTE service plans for the end users.
• Gain competitive edge among peers by achieving intelligent insights in specific business needs
• Network with industry colleagues to benefit from customer insights for devising right business models for today and for the future