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  Int. J. Services, Economics and Management, Vol. 4, No. 1, 201 2 43 Copyright © 2012 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Engineering analysis and economic evaluation of broadband fixed wireless access in developing country: wireless city in Thailand Pichet Ritthisoonthorn* and Kazi M. Ahmed School of Engineering and Technology, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), P.O. Box 4, Klong Luang, Pathumthani 12120, Thailand Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] *Corresponding author Donyaprueth Krairit School of Management, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), P.O. Box 4, Klong Luang, Pathumthani 12120, Thailand Email: [email protected] Abstract: The emergence of advanced broadband wireless access technologies has significantly increased choices, putting pressures on network operators to obtain the necessary information on which to base their investment decisions. This research focuses on the technological and economical assessments of WiMAX, in a specific developing telecommunications market. The study examines the economic feasibility, and presents a discussion of planning and characteristics of WiMAX technology. The study also explores a new engineering-economic analytical model for evaluating a WiMAX system in a  prospectiv e wireless city and demonstra tes its real-world applicabi lity using Bangkok as the case study. The results show that the service area, quality of network planning and amount of frequency bandwidth allocated to WiMAX technology strongly influence the network’s economic merit, making investment decisions in BFWA network highly dependent on them. Keywords: wireless access network; engineering-economic analysis; BFWA; WiMAX; wireless city; Thailand. Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Ritthisoonthorn, P., Ahmed, K.M. and Krairit, D. (2012) ‘Engineering analysis and economic evaluation of broadband fixed wireless access in developing country: wireless city in Thailand’, Int. J. Services, Economics and Management , Vol. 4, No. 1,  pp.43–6 1. Biographical notes: Pichet Ritthisoonthorn is currently a doctoral student in the Telecommunication Program, School of Engineering and Technology, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand. His current research interests include broadband access network, telecommunication policy and management.

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