Telcordia® Real-Time Charging
Convergent Charging for Service Innovation
Real-Time Charging Overview
The days of the one-size-fits-all billing model are long gone. Today, if you can't offer tailored plans and new service bundles in real time to meet the distinct needs of each of your subscribers, you can't be competitive. You'll also miss out on opportunities to improve customer loyalty and boost revenues.
Our Real-Time Charging solution can help you apply tailored promotions, features, rate plans and cross-product bundles to a variety of services. So you can act faster to keep your subscribers happier and more loyal than ever.
What is Real-Time Charging?
Our Real-Time Charging product is a flexible, affordable convergent charging solution that can handle the demands of integrating voice, data and content, as well as prepaid-postpaid convergence, on fixed, mobile, cable and IP networks. It makes it easy to apply real-time rating and charging features to your subscribers on an individual basis.
Real-Time Charging integrates into virtually any billing environment and can also support an IMS environment. It gives you the power to quickly roll out innovative charging models, such as:
- Cross-product promotions. Promote usage of one service by giving discounts on another.
- Loyalty rewards management. Track reward points and redemption plans to encourage customer loyalty.
- Ads for service credits. Offer service credits to subscribers that agree to view sponsored ads.
- Dynamic Pricing and Charging. Offer dynamic tariffs with granularity down to cell level based on network load.
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Why Use Real-Time Charging?
Consider our Real-Time Charging solution if you want to:
- Move faster. Speed time-to-market by operating in a real-time environment to quickly and easily create new service bundles and promotions.
- Cut ownership costs. Consolidate charging on our open and flexible convergent charging platform, the Telcordia® Converged Application Server, to reap major cost savings, including those associated with integration.
- Lower the cost of entry. Enjoy powerful flexibility while keeping initial costs low.
- Reduce churn. Make subscribers happy and loyal to keep them coming back for more.
- Boost revenues. Expand your service offerings and revenue potential by supporting two-sided business models.
- Keep quality high. Maintain network-grade reliability with high throughput and low latency for even the largest networks by delivering services on IBM® BladeCenter® blade servers.
Disclaimer
Implementation by a telecom services provider of any of the services described herein may infringe one or more third party patents. For example, Freedom Wireless, Inc. is the owner of a number of patents (i.e. U.S. Patents Nos. 5,722,067 and 6,157,823) related to pre-paid wireless services. A service provider will have to make its own determination on the applicability or validity of any these patents to its services and to make its own determination regarding whether a license under such patents is necessary. Telcordia does not and will not offer any opinion on the applicability or validity of such patents and does not provide indemnity to any party implementing these services including those using any Telcordia product. Telcordia is able to offer its Prepaid Wireless Hosted Solution service under license from Freedom Wireless, Inc.
IBM and BladeCenter are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both.
