Prepaid Services for New Generation Mobile Network

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Target market

Telcos and Mobile Communications Operators. In countries where mobile adoption is already high, prepaid options allow credit challenged and lower-income consumers to participate. It is very popular with first time users such as teenagers who are also early adopters of new services including Short Message Service (SMS) and games.

Customer benefits

Prepaid mobile services for 3G networks enable telcos to sign up new users by utilizing the latest in converged billing technologies. Tariffing, another name for prepaid services, means mobile users who don't want credit based billing, or for whom it is not available, can take full advantage of the newest mobile services and technologies by prepaying.

Mobile operators in business today do not have to throw away legacy systems or infrastructure, and can quickly start offering new services. The new tariffing system, which is based on open industry-standard Intel based hardware, will integrate into mature environments, and run parallel. This allows for immediate access to new markets for current voice operators. Migrating legacy systems into the future becomes a controlled stable process rather than rushing to a fork-lift rollover.

Scope

This system addresses prepaid content requirement in a pragmatic way. Prepaid balances can be held by the existing Intelligent Network platform or by the billing system. Everything from the legacy to new converged systems can be seamlessly integrated to provide a single customer view.

Key components

• HP servers based on Intel Architecture
• HP Internet Usage Manager (IUM)
• HP Opencall Intelligent Network (IN) service platform
• IP-billing software such as Portal or Ambeo
• Windows, Linux or Unix.