On Location Charging

On Location Charging is quite likely to become a key value added service in the forthcoming communication era since it provides subscribers with the opportunity to select the most beneficial charging for them, while it offers to the operators the possibility to customize and differentiate their rating plans attracting new subscribers and increasing their satisfaction.

The On Location Charging is a high-capacity service meant for GSM and GPRS global carriers to take advantage of the emergent based services market. A reduced functionality package is also available for global PTSN operators. Supporting several telephony standards, this service can handle from thousands to millions of subscribers.

The On Location Charging enables to apply special rates whenever a call is done from some predefined areas or within some predefined closed user group. One of the aims of this service is to stimulate the use of wireless telephony even at home or in the office.

Main Features:

 Management of call rating and call supervision.
Real-time rating and CDR generation.
 Configurable rating rules with flexible configurable rating options.
 Configurable rating segments (first 30 sec, first minute, etc...).
 Flexible account nature and account status definition.
 Flexible and configurable CDRs format.
 Special rating area flexible definition.
 Special rating areas, and other events' real-time notifications.
Main Rating Parameters:

Location: Caller location.
Account nature: CUG or private.
Call nature: national, mobile, international, closed user group, etc calls.
Rating Plan: Day of week, holidays and time.