The TEA family is a unique and integrated application, that takes into account all critical aspects (market, technical, economic and financial) ensuring the best possible alignment between business and technology strategies since the outset.
4. The TEA Family
• TEA is a family of business case analysis tools that empowers costumers with an
effective mean to lay a solid foundation for a successful 4G initiative, analyzing and
tracking the business case through an integrated and iterative approach during the
entire life cycle of the project.
• It is an unique and integrated application, that takes into account all critical aspects
(market, technical, economic and financial) ensuring the best possible alignment
between business and technology strategies since the outset. In Addition, The TEA
family features comprehensive market and revenue forecast models, network
dimensioning modeling tailored to the 4G technologies (WiMAX and LTE).
• The TEA family has been developed leveraging over six years of industry experience
with strategic assignments and projects for major operators and equipment vendors.
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5. TEA|WiMAX & TEA|LTE
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• Perform all key analyses (market, technical, economic and financial) in a integrated
manner
• Enable analyzing the influence of boundary condition changes on the profitability of
the investment
• Allow carrying out a quick and easy business case evaluation, without building time-
consuming and laborious spreadsheets
• Are tailored for the specific needs of players in the 4G ecosystem
• Include a number of standard projects pre-set to specifications of leading WiMAX and
LTE solutions
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6. Who could benefit?
TEA Family supports almost every player of the 4G ecosystem:
• Operators looking for the best business case and a detailed network planning phase of it
to identify the most critical factors for the success of the initiative
• Vendors aiming to present operators with an accurate and compelling positioning of their
offerings
• Analysts and consultants supporting their customers in the development of superior
business and technology strategies
• Investors evaluating new business plans and requests for further rounds of financing
• Regulators have to properly assess operator’s submissions, in order to perform an
objective and forward-looking spectrum management
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7. Key characteristics
• Analyzing the business case for a WiMAX and LTE initiative with a holistic
approach, in an integrated and iterative way, by taking into account all critical
aspects
• Supporting a fast and simplified configuration of more than 500 input parms
with a number of them pre-set to typical/recommended values in the technical
part
• Enabling the user to view results instantly in an animated graphical format
through a dashboard-styled and very easy-to-use GUI
• Compliant with:
• IEEE 802.16e/d/m standards and the WiMAX Forum Fixed/Mobile Profiles
(TEA|WiMAX)
• The latest version (Release 10) of the LTE standard (TEA|LTE)
• Easy and fast definition of custom profiles and bands
• Manual setting of the number of users, BS/eNB, Logical Sectors, Radio Links,
MME, S-GW, P-GW 7
9. Four main integrated analysis
Market Analysis Technical Analysis
Estimating the potential market Dimensioning the network
and revenues for the 4G services infrastructure to derive the
required bill of quantities
Scenario & Sensitivity Analysis Economic & Financial Analysis
Analyzing the influence of parameter Calculating all the economic &
and boundary condition changes financial projections keys and the
indicators
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10. Market analysis
Estimating the potential market and revenues for the 4G services:
• Geographical areas to be served (dense urban, urban, suburban/exurban, and rural)
• Market segments to be addressed (residential, soho, small, middle and large enterprises/institutions)
• Service profiles to be offered
• Market segment penetration per year
• Impact of churn
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11. Technical analysis
The 4G network infrastructure is structured on the basis of the capacity and coverage
requirements, to derive the required bill of quantities, taking into account:
• Technology characterization (operating frequency,
channelization, duplexing, sensitivity, data rate, etc.)
• Base stations/eNodes B and user terminals/equipments
to be deployed in the network
• Path loss model for the link budget analysis (Cost-231,
SUI, ECC-33, Log-Normal with/without Shadowing, Free
Space)
• Down and up link capacity demand per year
• Existing backbone infrastructures
• Wireless backhaul technology distribution
(SDH, PDH, Native Ethernet, Other
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12. Economic and financial
All the economic keys & financial projections (TCO, P&L, Cash Flow, Balance Sheet) and
indicators (Gross Margin, EBITDA, EBIT, NPV, IRR, PBP, Shareholder Value, etc.) are
calculated to assess the feasibility of the 4G initiative, considering:
• CAPEX & OPEX (spectrum license, Internet connectivity, access, backhauling, core network,
personnel, marketing, SG&A, etc.)
• Depreciations
• Interest rate on borrowings
• Tax rate
• Discount rate
• Financing
• Equity
• Perpetual growth
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13. Scenario and sensibility analysis
• The influence of parameter and boundary condition changes is analyzed to
identify the most critical factors for the success of the initiative. A fast and
iterative fine-tuning of the 4G business case, in real-time and total privacy can be
performed, viewing the results in an animated graphical format instantly from
the different Market, Technical, Economic & Financial perspectives.
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14. Comprehensive report
• At the end of the analyses, a very detailed report is automatically compiled and
published in editable formats.
• The report contains a complete summary (with tables, diagrams and charts) of
input parameters and assumptions, the results of the market analysis, the
outcome of the technical modelling, and the economic and financial statements.
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15. Thanks for your attention
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