Successful Strategies for WiMAX Operators to Compete and Prosper in the Wider Broadband Ecosystem

Led by: Antonios Drossos, Managing Partner, Rewheel & Pal Zarandy, Senior Partner, Rewheel

08:30 Registration
09:00 Introductions
09:30 Putting WiMAX Players into the Context of Competition

• How many customers per  cell and how many GB/month per customer are  today and can in the future be served by  pre-4G technologies like 3G/HSPA?
• How much customer demand  is left for 4G?
• How much customer demand  can be met by 4G technologies & spectrum?
11:00 Morning break
11:15 The Business Case of Data  Only wireless service providers
12:30 Lunch
14:30 Data Centric Business  Models – Beyond the Wireless ISP Approach

• Convergence of  smart-phone and PC connectivity (“dongle”)  market segments
• Comparing various WiMAX  market positioning approaches: Wireless ISP  – “Digital life style” Service Provider –  Wholesale Wireless Access Provider
• Interactive group work:  What does it take to succeed in those three positioning strategies?
15:30 Afternoon break
15:45 The Role of WiMAX  Operators in the Evolving Mobile Data Ecosystem

• Discussing the group work  findings
• Wrap up

Rewheel, the leading specialists of mobile data strategy, profitability improvement & infrastructure sourcing was founded in 2009 and it is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. Rewheel has already earned the trust and satisfaction of leading industry players such as Vodafone, UBS, Play, Mobitel, and many other operators from the Nordics, Western Europe, Central-Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa. Our clients gain a competitive edge by  revealing the barriers of their sustainable profitability and re-inventing the “wheel” under their businesses. Rewheel helps the industry players in  achieving sustainable profitability by delivering specialist consulting services in combination with our integrated profitability modeling software framework. Our clients' executives hire us to assist them in making truly  business critical decisions. For our operator customers
- depending on the size  of the business in question - the bottom line impact of our contribution ranges  from millions to tens of millions of Euros.

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