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Research and Markets has announced the addition of ‘WiMAX in the Enterprise: Access, Applications and Affordability‘ to its offering.

WiMAX will change the way enterprises view telecommunications. Telecom companies must service the customer in this new environment or someone else will. Customers could start demanding lower prices, or they'll turn to a new WiMAX operator or set up their own private network using WiMAX equipment. The technology gives businesses the ability to virtually manage their workforce and add and remove new services and applications quickly.

This publication evaluates the deployment of a WiMAX network for an enterprise in terms of the author's unique analysis methodology of the "Three A's of WiMAX deployment", which are: access, affordability and applications. Access refers to how an enterprise employee might access the Internet or corporate intranet.

Internet skills are critical in the job market of 2007 and will be even more so in 2020. Affordability means bringing wireless broadband Internet/intranet access to all employees may be surprisingly affordable. Compared to the telephone company's T1, the cost per megabit per employee for WiMAX services is competitive.

In terms of applications, wireless broadband access and mobile computing come together via WiMAX to offer the enterprise a range of applications limited only by the imagination of enterprise leadership.

This publication explores how WiMAX will change enterprise telecommunications in terms of access, applications and affordability. This matrix ultimately points to WiMAX holding a $36.4 billion market in U.S. enterprises telecommunications services by 2013.