Openet Balance Manager
Harness the Power of Service Optimization Software
Exceptional customer care includes offering subscribers the flexibility to choose how they pay for their services. With Openet Balance Manager payment flexibility is inherent, improving customer service while limiting credit risks and reducing costs.
Openet's Balance Management framework enables service providers to deploy hybrid pre- and post-paid accounts, manage account balances in real-time, organize subscriber hierarchies, and enforce spending limits. Subscribers enjoy the capability to allocate, share, and administer balances at an account and service level with an unprecedented level of control over their services.
Openet Balance Manager leverages the industry leading Openet Framework to deliver the performance, scalability, and flexibility demanded by the most complex of carrier networks.
Contact us to find out more about how your organization will benefit from Openet Balance Manager.
Product Briefs
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How-To Guides
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LTE Pricing and Packaging - Current Operator LTE Pricing and Packaging Overview 2011:
LTE is currently live in 14 countries, with forecasts predicting that by the end of 2011 there will be some 16 million subscribers using LTE mobile devices. Also the Global Mobile Suppliers Association (GSA), reports that there is a total of 208 operators in 80 countries investing in LTE and reports that LTE is the fastest developing mobile system technology ever. As we approach a critical mass of deployments, this paper looks at how some of the most advanced ‘early adopters’ of LTE are packaging and pricing data plans to their subscribers.
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Building the Foundation for Next Generation Revenue:
This whitepaper addresses the key challenges operators are facing due to their silo based legacy infrastructures (e.g., pre-paid charging, post-paid billing, and mobile/fixed silos). It examines what they need to do to successfully build the foundation for next generation revenue and lead the competitive race in a context where more agile new players who are free from legacy charging and billing platforms as well as third party content providers and “over-the-top” service providers are increasingly providing attractive content services.
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Policy Control and Charging for LTE Services
Download this paper by Analysys Mason to discover the:
- Current opinions on LTE deployments and how roll-outs will be phased
- Implications of LTE/EPC to existing OSS/BSS assets
- Recommendations on how to evolve Policy and Charging to support bandwidth-intensive, low-latency, real-time services
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EU Data Roaming Regulation – A Focus On BSS
To address the EU Data Roaming regulation the availability and capabilities of the following BSS components will have a significant impact on the solution architecture:
- Convergent rating engine to handle real-time rating of data traffic
- Scalable Credit Control Request Interface to manage transactions
- Capability to flexibly configure and execute business rules
- The capacity of existing (IN-based) balance management systems to identify and manage separate charging and threshold measurement streams
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Extending the Service Capabilities of IN-based Hardware Systems
In this paper, analysts at OSS Observer review:
- The need for speed when developing new service offerings
- How to deliver hybrid accounts
- New solutions that provide performance, scalability, and flexibility
- Commercial benefits derived from software-based solutions
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The Business Case for Policy and Charging Controls
Despite their growth and relative success in the global economy, wireless operators are leaving money on the table. They face challenges with billing inflexibility that leave customers disgruntled, limited benefits from over-the-top services, and escalating customer service costs. They also face network issues, where uncontrolled demand for data-hungry services results in network performance and capacity problems.
This webinar examines how operators can optimize network resource utilization whilst generate new revenue streams and a highly personalized experience by using Policy and Charging Controls.
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