Availability of Version 2.0 of their WiROI™ Business Case Tool has been announced today by a leader in WiMAX™ broadband wireless consulting, WiMAX 20/20, LLC (http://www.wimax2020.com ). Since the initial launch of the WiROI Tool last year, it has been used by network operators and equipment manufacturers around the world to develop comprehensive business cases, understand their financial requirements, and build a detailed 10 year income statement to gain funding from demanding financiers.

The upgrades to the WiROI Tool, guided by customer feedback from over 25 deployed WiMAX projects, include side-by-side vendor and technology comparison capabilities and enhancements, an expanded dashboard-style Graphical User Interface (GUI), and the ability to model services such as VoIP, VOD and IPTV.

Principal at WiMAX 20/20, LLC, Randall Schwartz, declared: "The challenge of securing financing in the current environment requires operators to use a tool like WiROI to build a bankable business case and get funded. The new GUI with its improved analysis features and its capability to model advanced services, enhances an operators ability to analyze their business and show the full financial potential of their deployment plan."

The WiROI Business Case Tool was the first to provide network operators and equipment manufacturers with a comprehensive analysis of the capital and operational expenses for deploying a WiMAX network. The WiROI Tool, developed through extensive industry experience with actual network deployments on 5 continents, has the flexibility to accurately model a variety of deployment plans and service offerings. The WiROI Tool allows network operators to customize a business case analysis for their target market and has been used in both developing and developed markets, in small and large multi-city deployments, for urban, rural, and combination networks. To show the tangible financial value-added benefits of using their equipment in an operator's deployment plans, equipment manufacturers have also used WiROI as a marketing tool.