Broadband Charging Overview

With mobile broadband traffic skyrocketing, providers need to give themselves every opportunity to profit from broadband and data services. But your current charging systems might be limiting your options.

Our Broadband Charging system can help you turn mobile broadband charging into a competitive differentiator. You'll have the ability to introduce more services, plans, and offers, giving your customers more ways to take full advantage of your network – on their terms – while giving you more ways to increase profitability.

And the flexibility of our solution means that in addition to supporting mobile broadband charging, it will thrive in a converged environment with fixed and cable services.

What is Broadband Charging?

Built on the award-winning heritage of Telcordia® Real-Time Charging, our Broadband Charging solution is an Online Charging System (OCS) designed to work alongside your current prepaid charging system.

Our Broadband Charging system provides flexible rating and charging and includes:

• A plethora of plan options. Create a broad range of options, from unlimited to tiered to boost plans; on a long-term basis or for any period from an hour to a month.
• Charging for all types of data networks: Employ our solution on your mobile, Wi-Fi®, DSL, or cable network.
• Pre-integration with our policy control product. Enjoy better targeting and give customers better control.
• Scalability and availability. Experience six nines availability up to 100-million subscribers.
• Two-sided business models for data/content. Charge either directly from the end user or from the supplier of the content/services.
• Tiered pricing. Offer multiple choices for tiered pricing, based on such parameters as monthly data limits, websites, speed, QoS, time of day or location.
• Data measurement options. Measure data by either volume or time duration.
• Dynamic pricing. Add dynamic pricing to offer incentives to customers to use underutilized time or to locations to optimize network capex and improve the user experience.

Why Use Broadband Charging?

Consider our mobile Broadband Charging solution to achieve:

• A better customer experience. Give your mobile broadband customers personalized plans and more control – without bill shock – and embolden them to try new services while increasing loyalty.
• Improved time to market. Quickly test and introduce new tariff plans and timely offers with our GUI-based rating rules editor, so you can continuously innovate and differentiate.
• More profitable outcomes. Turn potential mobile broadband customers into steady income with a multitude of plan options; plus, you can increase your revenues with enticing add-ons, impulse offers, boost plans, and load-based pricing.