Wireless communications services
PA helps you maximise the ROI of WiMAX networks
WiMAX is entering a highly competitive marketplace. In order to establish itself as an economically viable technology, business cases must be made to work hard to show a payback that pushes it ahead of the competition.
Operators will be convinced only by a winning business case, and are looking carefully into how and where WiMAX can be rolled out profitably. Network planners must choose the technical options that provide the best payback for the business case.
The problem is that the network cost is highly dependent on a bewildering array of factors:
- planning decisions – cells per base station, frequency re-use pattern, indoor vs outdoor CPE, channel bandwidth, etc
- technical options – should advanced antenna technologies (eg MIMO) be deployed, do VoIP or quality-of-service profiles need to be supported, should the equipment support turbo or convolutional coding, etc?
- operators need to tune their deployment plans to optimise ROI, while vendors need to show how their WiMAX systems and solutions maximise ROI.
PA Consulting's approach to techno-economic modelling links together the technical and commercial drivers in order to optimise the rollout of WiMAX networks and minimise the costs. It allows you to:
- model the technology to justify capacity and coverage claims
- quantify the potential business case
- develop the business case from the operator’s point of view
- provide a tool that can be used to further discussions with operators and allows operator-specific data to be easily incorporated into the model
- run different scenarios to tune the model to different requirements.
PA is ideally placed to work with operators and vendors.
Contact us
For further information please e-mail: wireless@paconsulting.com
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