Openet Convergent Charging
Harness the Power of Service Optimization Software
Increase revenue and profitability by extending service to all customers, with real-time service controls. Openet Convergent Charging makes it easier for communication service providers to optimize profitability by providing flexibility to deploy any service to any type of subscriber using any payment method with any set of business rules.
Openet Convergent Charging, part of our Online Charging System (OCS) offering, provides a single, enterprise-wide charging platform to enforce a range of payment and user policies. Usage includes user authentication and authorization, credit limits for post-paid subscribers, and content filtering rules such as 'no adult content for minors'. All the while, scaling to process thousands of transactions per second with less than 10 milliseconds latency and five nines availability.
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Product Briefs
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Monetizing Mobile Data: Top 10 Pricing and Charging Innovations
This white paper highlights the top 10 pricing and charging innovations that operators can use to drive mobile data revenues. Discussing real life use cases, this white paper provides insight and ideas to help operators increase data revenues and deliver a more personal and compelling service. Sample innovative use cases discussed include:
- Convergence and Bundling
- Partner Subsidies (Content and Advertising)
- Loyalty and Promotions
- Pricing Simulation
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Subscriber Optimized Charging for 4G Services
In order to increase adoption and usage of 4G services, operators will need to price and package services that provide value to subscribers. Providing value means understanding subscribers and developing offers that subscribers will buy and lead to increased subscriber loyalty. In order to do this operators need to provide mobile broadband pricing that is convergent, personalized and dynamic. However, many of the existing B/OSS (business / operational support systems) cannot support such pricing strategies. This white paper discusses the challenges that 4G will present to existing B/OSS platforms and looks at a new approach – Subscriber Optimized Charging. This is designed to provide a cost-effective approach to enable operators to maximize 4G adoption, ARPU and loyalty.
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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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Using Real-Time Charging for Promotions and Bundles
This White Paper discusses:
- How real-time charging enables better pre-paid marketing
- New usage and recharge promotional use cases
- Recent innovations in pre-paid customer bundles
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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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Real-time Charging for Convergent Services - Practical Help from IMS Standards
This White Paper discusses:
- Why the IMS standards meet today’s real-time charging requirements
- How an OCS enables flexible charging for convergent services
- The state of OCS today
- The role of session and event charging
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Pricing and Charging – What do Customers Want and What Can Operators do About it?
Drawing on consumer research and operator case studies this webinar examines what customers want from telecoms pricing and charging and looks at what operators can do to meets customers’ needs and deliver profitability.
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Maximising Revenue from Pre-Paid. Using Real-time Charging to Drive Innovation and Loyalty
Service providers need to be more creative in how they market their services to effectively sell to pre-paid customers. Real-time charging is one of the systems best placed to enable this creativity. It provides the flexibility and agility required to run innovative promotions, roll-out dynamic bundles and build customer loyalty
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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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Monetizing the Policy and Charging Controls (PCC) Architecture
Wireless networks are rapidly evolving and communications service providers must align their charging strategies to this. 3GPP's Policy and Charging Controls (PCC) architecture provides a blueprint for this billing evolution. This webinar examines the revenue generating capabilities of the PCC architecture, with a focus on the role of charging.
Maximizing Revenue from Pre-Paid: Using Real-time Charging to Drive Innovation and Loyalty
Service providers need to be more creative in the way they market their services to effectively sell to pre-paid customers. Real-time charging is one of the systems best placed to enable this creativity. It provides the flexibility and agility required to run innovative promotions, roll-out dynamic bundles and build customer loyalty. By attending this webinar you will discover:
- Emerging trends and practices for pre-paid subscribers
- Role of charging as an enabler of marketing and promotion
- Real-life use cases of innovation in promotions and bundles
