An LTE Direct workshop organized by Qualcomm and Samsung in May 2013 brought together thought leaders from Deutsche Telekom, DOCOMO, KDDI, Orange, Placecast, Samsung, SAP, Sapient, SKT, Softbank, Tagged, and Verizon. Workshop goals included understanding the business opportunity for proximate services in the Mobile Retail and Social Discovery space, discussing how operators can leverage LTE Direct to benefit from this space, and understanding key platform considerations for an LTE Direct deployment, which is currently being standardized in 3GPP as part of R-12.

This white paper summarizes key discussions from the workshop.

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