UJet Holding BV is based in the Netherlands, investing in underserved telecom markets in developing countries.
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Broadband Recovery Act applications make extensive use of the WiROI™ tool
New Windsor, NY, 11 September 2009
Wireless 20/20, LLC (www.wireless2020.net), a leader in broadband wireless consulting and the developer of the industry-leading WiROI™ Business Case Analysis Tool, announced today that its award-winning WiROI™ Tool was used in the preparation of multiple first-round Broadband Recovery Act applications. The “But For” criteria demonstrated through the financial simulations and forms generated by the WiROI™ Tool streamlined the application preparation process.
The company had previously announced the availability of enhanced tools, financial models and strategic planning services specific to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) that would give clients the insight needed to make strategic decisions to prepare proposals for the Broadband Recovery Act applications for submission to the US Departments of Agriculture, Commerce and Energy. The result, the WiROI™ ARRA Business Case Analysis Tool was used by 10 municipalities and operators to build and validate business cases detailing their financial needs, outlining the financial return of their proposal, demonstrating the “but for” criteria and strengthen of their applications.
The WiROI™ ARRA Tool generates the various forms required for these applications based upon the results of simulations and analysis. Given the aggressive timeline established by the Broadband Recovery Act and the resulting first-round Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) the WiROI™ ARRA Tool saved clients weeks of work in preparing and improving the quality of proposal applications. “We couldn’t have done it without the help of the Wireless 20/20 team.” said Paul Coerkamp, CEO of UJet Holding, who has filed an application to cover the unserved and underserved parts of Puerto Rico. “Wireless 20/20 understood the keys to success for our business case and helped us pull together all of the key financial attachments for our application.” “We are pleased to have helped numerous clients with their applications.” said Haig Sarkissian, Principal Consultant at Wireless 20/20, “The second round applications are due in December, and our experience and proven tools will undoubtedly help even more clients prepare for this next challenge.” The WiROI™ ARRA Business Case Analysis Tool models the effects of federal grant subsidies and loan funding on proposed broadband networks and services, resulting in a 10-year business case for the application. The WiROI™ ARRA Tool simplifies generation of a complete proposal, demonstrating the incremental impact of federal stimulus funding. It generates the forms required by the Broadband Recovery Act application including, Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cash Flows forms, as well as the Broadband Subscriber Estimates and Other Services for VoIP and Video. The WiROI™ Tool GUI models numerous assumptions and scenarios, validating the viability and sustainability of a proposal, accelerating the broadband stimulus proposal development. The WiROI™ Tool also evaluates the CapEx and OpEx needs of the access and core networks, builds a revenue model for the services to be offered, and returns comprehensive financial outputs that include a 10-year income statement, from which the required 5-year statements are generated. Wireless 20/20 will be presenting case studies of Broadband Recovery Act applications and demonstrating the WiROI™ ARRA Tool during the upcoming 4G World Conference in Chicago. An online, interactive demonstration of the WiROI™ ARRA Business Case Analysis Tool can be test driven at the Wireless 20/20 website(www.wireless2020.net).
About Wireless 20/20, LLC Wireless 20/20 is an independent market research and consulting company focused solely on the emerging broadband wireless market. Our principals have been engaged in the wireless industry since its inception and have gained a thorough understanding of the technical, business and product issues surrounding the development of wireless devices, equipment, networks and services. For more information visit: www.wireless2020.net.
WiROI™ is a trademark of Wireless 20/20, LLC. WiMAX Forum® is a registered trademark and WiMAX™ is a trademark of the WiMAX Forum®.
Are you a WiMAX Operator? We recommend that you become a member of the WiMAX Forum Operator Taskforce (NOTF); the place to learn and exchange global Operator issues, such as; roaming, new business models, 4G deployment planning, availability of WiMAX handsets, etc. The NOTF is accessible to Operators only, and you have to be member of the WiMAX Forum® to attend.
UJet currently holds the chair position of the NOTF, and is happy to answer questions from Operators at info@ujetholding.nl.
See George Matsumoto, UJet CFO and NOTF chair, at the WiMAX Forum Global Congress '09 in Amsterdam:
We are glad to announce that regulator Indotel has granted nationwide licenses for mobile- and fixed telephony, broadband and TV to UJet Dominicana SA.
Added to its spectrum license for the 2.3GHz band, UJet Dominicana is planning to bring connectivity to the Dominican Republic, focussing on communities and small businesses.
UJet Holding BV announces membership of the WiMAX Forum®
Deventer, 24th of March 2007
For immediate release:
UJet Holding BV, a Dutch based telecom holding company, today announced its membership of the WiMAX Forum, an industry-led organization that promotes the interoperability and certification of broadband wireless products based on the IEEE 802.16 and ETSI HiperMAN standards.
“The WiMAX Forum stimulates the development of new products such as Mobile TV and fast broadband on the move. There is a strong market demand for these products. What makes Mobile WiMAX™ so attractive to UJet Holding BV is that the same network can be used to offer traditional services such as fixed and mobile telephony. Imagine how this technology, coupled with a ground-roots service solution, could do to unlock the potential of rural and geographically dispersed communities, many of whom are unattractive to major telecoms, and therefore have no connectivity at all”, said CEO Paul Coerkamp.
The WiMAX Forum is striving to create economies of scale made possible by standards-based, interoperable products that drive price and performance levels not achievable by proprietary approaches. Ultimately WiMax can become the connectivity standard for markets too dispersed or remote to be viable for viable service using traditional, infrastructure-heavy solutions such as cable, while offering diversity of platforms and content-delivery that is untenable for a cellular network. WiMAX™ technology is designed to help service providers across global markets deliver economical broadband data, voice and video services to both residential and business customers.
About UJet Holding
UJet Holding B.V. is a telecom holding company formed in the Netherlands to invest in underserved telecom markets in developing countries.
The WiMAX Forum® is an industry-led, not-for-profit organization formed to certify and promote the compatibility and interoperability of broadband wireless products based upon the harmonized IEEE 802.16/ETSI HiperMAN standard. A WiMAX Forum goal is to accelerate the introduction of these systems into the marketplace. WiMAX Forum Certified™ products are fully interoperable and support broadband fixed, portable and mobile services. Along these lines, the WiMAX Forum works closely with service providers and regulators to ensure that WiMAX Forum Certified systems meet customer and government requirements.
“WiMAX Forum” is a registered trademark of the WiMAX Forum. “WiMAX,” the WiMAX Forum logo, "WiMAX Forum Certified," and the WiMAX Forum Certified logo are trademarks of the WiMAX Forum. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.