WiMAX Business Planning Tool

The WiMAX Business Planning Tool is an in-depth working Excel spreadsheet-based tool that provides a wide ranging set of variables to be programmed into the spreadsheet including details related to WiMAX parameters as well as VoIP and video delivery concerns.

The tool allows the WiMAX entrepreneur to make financial projections many years into the future and will prove to be a valuable tool where investors may be asking the simple question "How much money are we going to make?"

Components:

• EBITDA
• Net present Value
• Free Cash Flow
• Operational Expenses
• Capital Expenses
• Assumptions for subscription pricing, growth in subscribership, acquisition, churn, ARPU, provisioning, cost of CPE, installation, etc
• Number of base stations required
• Subscribers per base station
• UL channels
• Subscriber revenues based on prioritization/polling/modulation
• Services offered
• Demand
• Depreciation schedules

Key Benefits:

• Compiles 10-year Profit and Loss Statements for inclusion in Financials section of the grant application template
• Enables the user to determine EBITDA positive time frames
• Offers modeling based on the WiMAX platform variables (power, frequency, channel sizes, FDD or TDD, etc)
• Incorporates VoIP parameters to determine cash flows
• Enables modeling through the input of endless variables related to subscriber uptake, oversubscription, spectrum use, VoIP compression algorithms, modulation, etc.

Audience:

• Cellular, wireless ISP's, cable TV MSO's, and fixed network service providers
• WiMAX vendors, start-ups, vendors, investors, and industry analysts
• 700 MHz auction bidders, spectrum holders, and investors
• IP backbone service providers and VoIP service providers
• Telecom regulators and government agencies
• Enterprise telecom and IT managers
• Municipal IT and telecom managers