The Convergent Charging data solution provides real-time rating and charging for SMS, MMS and GPRS services, such as ring-tones, music, video clips and streaming. Our solution, based on our flexible, intuitive, rules-based Charging Gateway (CGW), offers the ability to easily differentiate your services, with adaptable pricing plans and a wide range of standard and value added features, ensuring market growth and subscriber satisfaction.
While traditional rating and pricing schemes, such as volume and flat-rate, are not suitable for most data services, the CGW’s Convergent Charging’s design offers the ability to rate and charge against almost any parameter made available by network elements, thereby enabling you to proactively introduce new services ahead of your competitors. Data charging supports CAP3, Diameter / Parlay, USSD, MAP and SMPP protocols.
Our Convergent Data charging solution supports:
SMS Charging
- CAP3 Mobile Originated Short Message
- Mobile Terminated Short Message
MMS Charging
GPRS Charging
- CAP3 Support
- Diameter Support
Data Charging Service Features
The Convergent Charging Data solution provides an abundance of standard and value added features that can be selectively grouped into customised service offerings to meet the needs of your specific market segments. The following is a sample of some of the features that are available:
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Value Added Features |
- Real-time call control and rating
- Flexible tariffing
- Destination based charging
- Time & Location dependent rating
- Content, event and session based charging
- Integrated customer care and voucher management
- Black list and blocking list
- Graphical rules builder
- Graphical tariff management
- Multiple currencies and tax scenario support
- Overdraft facility
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- On Net / Off Net Family and friends plus best friend
- Operator, system and group discounts
- Closed user groups
- APN based charging
- Roaming support
- Multiple service specific accounts balances: main, bonus, short message, data and periodic
- SMS bundle / package support
- Cross product bundling
- Short code SMS charging
- Simultaneous charging and reservation support
- Standards based APIs support third party integration
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