FREE Business Paper "Freedom to Choose"
Real-time charging for the “now generation”
In our first business paper, ’The Stranded Service Provider’, we discussed the precarious position today’s CSPs now find themselves in – caught in an inflexible SS7 past while shooting for an all-IP future that is looking increasingly out of reach. The second paper moved the discussion on, investigating the opportunities of bridging the SS7 and IP worlds through the introduction of Service Broker solutions.
This, the third business paper in the series completes the ‘journey’ by tackling the crucial element of charging. It looks outwards, away from the Communication Service Providers (CSPs) infrastructure, to discuss the importance of ‘real-time’ in the charging environment, and asks ‘what can real-time really do for us?’
Despite half a century of experience, billing - and increasingly converged billing - remains a significant challenge. And this is having a detrimental impact on new service deployment. You can’t sell what you can’t bill. But more than this, billing has an enabling role to play in the new world of telecommunications. Effective charging sits at the very core of delivering new business models and CSP content delivery strategies. We’ve been at this for half a century – perhaps this time we’ll get it right?
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