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2010 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Influence of Technical Improvements on the Business Case for a Mobile WiMAX Network
Authors : Bart Lannoo, Jeffrey De Bruyne, Wout Joseph, Jan Van Ooteghem, Emmeric Tanghe, Didier Colle, Luc Martens, Mario Pickavet, Piet Demeester
Published in: Access Networks
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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From a technical point of view, Mobile WiMAX may offer an appropriate solution for delivering broadband wireless access. Two remaining questions, however, are whether the rollout of a WiMAX network is economically feasible or not, and how technical improvements like MIMO, beamforming and turbo-coding can influence the business case. In this paper different technical scenarios for a Mobile WiMAX rollout are defined and evaluated from an economic as well as a technical perspective. To obtain realistic figures, we have defined a business case for a Mobile WiMAX rollout in Belgium, a country with a high wired broadband penetration. Further, we give an indication about the feasibility of a Mobile WiMAX network related to the population density. Finally, as the introduction of a new technology involves a lot of uncertainties, a detailed sensitivity analysis on both the economic and technical input parameters is performed to determine the most influencing parameters.