Billing is the core of the operation environment. However, the traditional billing system with vertical and silo-like structure cannot effectively meet various market requirements in today's telecom market, as competition is escalating.. The system, which varies with network type, service type and payment mode (prepaid/postpaid) from infrastructure network layer, service processing layer, billing layer to customer service layer, brings additional operation and human resource cost and unable to support the future service development.
Billing solution and products provide various businesses and services, such as voice, data, content and video, with flexible and real-time pricing, billing, account processing and management. This solution also supports service accepting & opening and customer care. A comprehensive online-offline billing platform enables operators to charge in prepaid and postpaid modes for services over multiple networks by using only one system.
The convergent billing solution (CBS) is composed of SCP, Convergent Rating & Billing Engine, Mediation, Provision, PRM and CCBS sub-solutions, products and components. It provides all end-to-end functions of network operation support, covering real-time service control, real-time billing access, real-time rating and billing, CDR collection, service provision, customer order management, product management, pricing, customer service, settlement, and partner management. CBS supports voice, data, video and event billing of PSTN, NGN, 2G/2.5G/3G, IMS, and WiMAX networks.
CBS has a flexible rating & billing engine for convergence of voice, data, video and event, convergence of prepaid and postpaid, convergence of fixed, mobile and IMS network. Besides, the professional core technologies, such as automatic recovery, two-node cluster and memory database, ensure that the CBS have the proven performance and high reliability. With abundant tariff schedule templates, CBS makes the tariff plan configurable. Based on the modularized, open, layered and future-proof architecture, CBS enables smooth evolution, and supports the unified customer care platform, complying with 3GPP and TMF standards.
By July 2007, the CBS has been applied by Holland KPN/ Telfort, China Mobile, China Telecom, and Indonesia M8.
Success Stories:
Customized Service Packages
——CMCC (Guangdong) releases flexible service packages supported by reliable online charging system.
Flexible and Fast Responding CBS
——Mobile-8 expands its mobile market with the convergent billing solution
Reference Products:
The CCBS is a customer oriented business support system. The CCBS provides operators with unified customer care with comprehensive service and product supporting, as well as backbone capabilities like real-time billing, partner settlement, CDR collection and service provisioning. In this way, CCBS delivers an experience that truly makes a personality for end customers.
The convergent billing solution (CBS) is composed of SCP, Convergent Rating & Billing Engine, Mediation, Provision, PRM and CCBS sub-solutions, products and components. It provides all end-to-end functions of network operation support, covering real-time service control, real-time billing access, real-time rating and billing, CDR collection, service provision, customer order management, product management, pricing, customer service, settlement, and partner management. CBS can support voice, data, video and event billing of PSTN, NGN, 2G/2.5G/3G, IMS, and WiMAX networks.
Intelligent network (IN) include fixed IN, GSM wireless IN, and CDMA wireless IN. IN products can provide various value-added services to network operators.
