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Berliner Communications, Inc.’s Consulting of Sprint PCS’s EVDO Project. By: Anil Cheerla Ngoc Dang Ehren Hollander. Background of BCI. Incorporated in 1995 Headquartered in New Jersey with offices in Maryland, Texas, and Florida
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Berliner Communications, Inc.’sConsulting of Sprint PCS’s EVDO Project By: Anil Cheerla Ngoc Dang Ehren Hollander
Background of BCI • Incorporated in 1995 • Headquartered in New Jersey with offices in Maryland, Texas, and Florida • Wireless communications consulting, project management, and construction • Client list: Sprint, Nextel, T-Mobile, etc. • Revenues between $25-30 million
Background of BCI (cont’d) • Recently became a publicly traded company in February, 2005 • Present boom in wireless telecom market leading to new work especially in the consulting field
EVDO Project • Overall Objective: to add signal capacity to their subscribers • Allow more subscribers to make calls in a given area • Increase signal to reduce dropped calls • Increase technology to provide better service through signal and phones • Secondary Objectives: • Strategically position Sprint as the #1 wireless service provider in the DC-Metro area • Increase marketability due to better technology
Problem Statement • Sprint PCS has asked BCI to consult on the EVDO project • With the $2.5 million given for the EVDO Project, Sprint PCS needs to maximize its benefit • A possible of 25 alternatives to choose from
Objectives Individual Objectives: Revenue Usability Impact on Present Market Strategic Risk Reduction Capital Investment Demographic Concerns • As a whole, the EVDO project is designed to strategically position Sprint to be the #1 wireless provider in the country
Priorities without Usability & Capital Investment Objectives
Alternatives • 25 potential projects in the DC-Metro market • Some must be accomplished and some can be done partially • $2.5 million to gain the most benefit from the 25 projects • DC03XC087 only a name; does not show any preference or ranking
Goal • To maximize the benefit of the given alternatives • Observation of objectives • Observation of constraints • Observation of dependencies • Observation of budget
Expected contribution of each alternative to each covering Objective