It’s Good To Talk……….

Remember when we all used to have to contact each other via landline telephones and by hand
written or typewritten letters that were dependent on postal systems. When electronic goods ingeneral were really expensive & mobile phones used to be the size of house bricks? And whenApple’s main product was the Macintosh followed by their saving grace…..theIPod.
Before terms and acronyms, yawn…(MOVE ON TO NEXT PARAGRAPH) like 2G; 3G; 4G; Bluetooth;
Bps;Cellular; Coverage; Digital Zoom; EDGE; GB;GPS; GPRS; GSM; Hands-free; HSC SD; HD;HSDPA;HSUPA; IM; IMAP; IrDA; Java; Kbps; LCD; LED; MB; OS; POP3; PUK; QVGA; SAR; TFT; VGA and WiFi
and there are thousands more!
It has all become another language, this is highlighted ina comedy sketch by brilliant British comedy
legends Ronnie Corbett & Harry Enfield entitled “My Blackberry Is Not Working” on YouTube.
Definitely worth a watch as it is truly hilarious!
I can remember my first Motorola mobile phone fifteen years ago which was still chunky; text
messaging people was still coming in; my work computer was an IBM with a green monochrome
monitor, the printers were huge&noisy drum printers; laptops if picked up incorrectly could slip one
or two of your spinal discs; tablets were still something you obtained from a pharmacy and theinternet was not yet main stream.
My how thinks change; Apple is now one of the most successful & profitable companies in the world.
Motorola who produced the world’s first portable mobile phone in 1973 were bought out by Google;
which was only registered as a website domain in 1997. Mobile phones are small devices that you
can easily fit in your pocket, laptops and tablets get as light as 1.36kg, you can now get all in one
printers which are now quiet and cheap to buy; albeit the ink cartridges for the things are an
exorbitant price and now how could we live without the internet!
Now mobile phones don’t just make phone calls they sync with the internet downloading your workand personal emails; access webpages; send text messages; incorporate a calendar; store yourphotos; take photos; tell you the weather; provide maps; play videos; play music and the list goes on
and on.
It is estimated that the number of mobile phones will exceed the world population in 2014, that’s
over 7.3 Billion active mobile phones! There are more than a hundred countries throughout theworld where the number of mobile phones exceeds the countries’ populations. Russia, for example,
has 1.8 times more active mobile phone accounts than people. Brazil has 1.2 times as many.
Most of the active devices exist in Asia, particularly China, which is considered by the International
Telecommunications Union to be the main market for smartphones and mobile phone growth.
Currently, there are roughly 6 billion active mobile phones in the world.
Based on the 6 billion mobile phones in use, only around 1.1 billion of them are mobile-broadbanddevices. This doesn’t mean that everyone around the globewill have one, or even that mobile service
will exist everywhere. It is down to the increasing number of people that own multiple devices,which will continue to grow as more and more people are given secondary phones to be used forwork purposes (the main reason most people would need more than one device).
Now the above leads me nicely into Genesis Technical Systems!

Genesis was founded in Canada in 2008 by a former telecoms chief designer, Stephen Cooke. The UK
subsidiary and operating business was established in 2009 and is based at the Warwick UniversityScience Park.
Genesis has developed a patented technology that will redefine the future of broadband for an
estimated 300 million users worldwide by allowing high speed broadband of up to 400mb/s topeople and homes even in the most rural locations without the need to deploy highly expensive anduneconomical fibre optic cable and at a cost of only 1-10% of that of installing fibre.
This is achieved by utilizing the existing copper wire infrastructure.
They have also developed another product specifically for Mobile operators who have anoverwhelming problem right now, coping with the huge demand placed on the current 3G basestation infrastructure by mobile phones.
Digital Subscriber Lines (DSL) is a common technology delivering internet access to millions oftelecommunications customers worldwide. However, even latest generation DSL suffers from being
very sensitive to the distance that the signal has to travel from the exchange to the end users homeand bandwidth ‘falls off’ rapidly the greater the distance.
Optical fibre based internet is prohibitively expensive to deploy and non-economical in rural areas.
BT estimated it would cost GBP 30 billion to layfibrethroughoutthe UK and France Telecom
estimated for them it would be at least a 30 year payback on their investment.
For mobile operators using 3G and Long Term Evolution(LTE) technology their problemis associatedwith ‘backhaul’ capacity as a result of mobile phones using data-heavy applications such as videos
and the difficulty is found at the base stations. Demand of this traffic is expected to grow by 1250%
per cell site in 2014 alone. Current 3G base stations can only offer 8mb/s upstream anddownstream.
Genesis simply re-use the existing copper infrastructure in an optimum way. Over timemassesof
copper wireworth trillionsofdollars has been laid from telephone exchanges tohousesthroughouttheworld.
What Genesis has done is to move the sharing point closer to your neighbourhood. With DSL Rings
they take the strength of numbers by ‘bonding’ multiple pairs of existing copper wires going todifferent houses in the neighbourhood to achieve high bandwidth in short distances from the local
distribution point to the home. For the user it’s a simple plug and play solution.
With the mBond solutions it also allows the same bonding to be used for ‘backhaul’ between
exchanges and 3G base stations with up to 160mbphs upstream and downstream.
Key benefits for telecommunication companies, (Telcos) providing fixed line broadband:
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Significant savings on installation of fibre (1-10% of the cost) as infrastructure already exists.
High speed broadband (up to 400mb/s) on Telcos existing networks with a simple solution.
Shared bandwidth without compromising performance.
A rural solution.
Eco friendly solution by negating the need for fibre it significantly reduces the energy
consumption and carbon footprint related to Fibre Optics production and installation.

Key benefits for Mobile operators:mBond solves 3G mast backhaul capacity problems where other solutions are not feasible.
Costs per cell site significantly lower than alternatives (less than 3% of the cost of fibre andapproximately 9% of the cost of microwave with improved performance).

How does it work?
The Home Gateway (HGW) is a proprietary solution provided by Genesis hardware and software
embedded in a small modem box and is installed directly in the home.
The Convergence Node (CN) is the network piece of equipment that sits in the Distribution Point (thetelegraph pole or cabinet serving a neighbourhood). The CN connects up to 12 houses in the “DSLRing” with the Telcos main network at the Exchange, delivering the high bandwidth over the shortdistance from the Distribution Point to the Home Gateway box in each house in the ‘ring’.
The Exchange Gateway (EXGW) is the third piece of the system and is not necessary in all cases. Thisis a server that sits in the Exchange and implements the logical bonding where older equipment does
not allow this to be done natively.
Market Recognition:
Genesis has won a number of awards including:Winner Fierce Telecom Last Mile Innovation Award
Winner TechRev Innovator Award
Winner Connect Midlands Most Investable Company Award
Winner The Venture Academy Most Investable Company Award
Market Opportunity:
There are over 300 million fixed line broadband subscribers worldwide.

There are over 500 fixed line Telcos worldwide, with over 1.2 billion copper phone lines
installed.

The Genesis DSL Rings offers Telcos the opportunity to offer genuine superfast 400 mb/s
broadband service to even their most remote customers at a fraction of the cost of fibre (110%) and an ROI in typically 2-3 years instead of 20-30 years.

Time to installation is one day compared with several months for Fibre Optic.

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Jason Marsh, Senior Adviser at Professional Portfolio International, has spent over 10 years living as
an expatriate in S.E. Asia. If you have any questions on this article or related topics you can contact
him at jason.marsh@ppi-advisory.com Tel: +662 664 0968 Mob: +66 812 789 425