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IP Based Rating & Charging
| More and more telcos are now offering bundled voice, video and data services to retain their existing subscriber base and entice prospective customers. These service implementations face challenges in supporting flexible pricing plans and service bundles, and smooth switching between postpaid and prepaid payment types. Need a IP based unified Rating & charging system. |
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| CRESTEL’S Convergent Rating & Charging system enables service providers to run their prepaid and postpaid operations as a single cohesive business using its real-time, high-volume event handling and seamless subscriber management capabilities. It provides a single platform with real-time rating & charging, balance management, integrated customer management and billing, enabling providers to offer the same levels of service to subscribers regardless of how they pay. |
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| Providers deploying CRESTEL have the opportunity to deliver all those services to prepaid subscribers that were earlier only available to postpaid users by assigning an appropriate plan based on their credit risk and usage pattern |
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| Key Features |
- Prepaid - Postpaid Convergence - Reduce costs with a single solution to handle prepaid, postpaid, now-pay, allowances and credit-limited accounts
- Network level - Rating for different applications having different bandwidth requirements, through different networks such as WiMAX, Wi-fi, CDMA 2.5G, 3G, IMS, Broadband
- Service level - Convergent Rating for Next Generation Service based on granular information Application based rating for (WAP, Streaming, Web, MMS, Email, FTP etc), time of day, discount structures, loyalty schemes, etc& Transaction based charging - VAS, Content & Entertainment
- Catalog level - Rating Catalog can be associated with Convergent Product Catalog
- Rating based on Volume, duration, destination IP, PORT, Service Type, QoS, Event, Roaming on, URL, MSISDN, IP address, SIP URI, Access Technology Type
- Subscriber and Network level Policy Control - Generate new revenue streams by combining Policy Control with Rating
- Access & Service Agnostic Single Sign On, means Differential rating of Service with respect to type of access network
- Limit revenue leakage & credit risk exposure with true online charging
- Give customers flexible payment choices with dynamic account selection
- Grow customer loyalty with multi-account family plans
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