Application Server based Charging and Policy

Application Server based Charging and Policy Overview

In the increasingly competitive world of mobile communications, customer expectations have evolved. They increasingly expect transparency, control and individualization of their online experience. They want control over all of their services on their terms, and at times that suit them. They want to have a premium customer service experience and to know how much they are spending.

Our Application Server based Charging and Policy portfolio can help you achieve time-to-market advantage with innovative, revenue-generating services in any network environment, and to respond to any competitive opportunity. Our Charging and Policy applications are delivered via the Ericsson Converged Application Server with common infrastructure components, including a high performance in-memory real-time Subscriber Database and a flexible Service Creation Environment (SCE). Our Charging and Policy portfolio not only provides a broad array of standard charging and policy features, it is highly-configurable to support new rate plans, promotions and policy, and it is also extensible to support new services and features.

Move Faster to Deliver the Services Your Customers Want

Our Application Server based Charging and Policy portfolio helps you quickly deliver the personalized and interactive mobile voice and broadband data offerings that put your customers at the heart of the service, providing solutions for 2G, 3G & 4G networks, including support for CDMA, GSM and Voice over IP. It empowers you to:

• Quickly define service offerings. Rapidly create charging and policy offers for all your services, including prepaid and postpaid, voice and data, consumer and enterprise, and retail and wholesale.
• Easily implement new service concepts. Leverage our application server and Service Creation Environment to operationalize marketing innovation with rapid creation and deployment of new services that extend your charging and policy services.
• Speed charging and policy rules creation. Quickly develop charging and policy rules that define the online experience and determine the pricing, promotions and Quality of Service for each package or bundle.
• Offer more control. Give subscribers the ability to choose which services to add or remove in real-time.
• Eliminate service limitations. Offer exciting features, policies, and service controls, and package them to prepaid and postpaid subscribers.
• Flexibly Integrate. Use our APIs for policy, network and back office integration.

With highly-flexible applications, including powerful Graphical User Interfaces that enable operators to achieve rapid time-to-market and time-to-revenue with innovative price plans, promotions, and policies, our portfolio includes:

Ericsson Broadband Charging. A flexible online charging system that provides convergent charging for data, content, messaging, voice, multimedia, VoIP and LTE, Broadband Charging can be deployed standalone or alongside your current prepaid charging or postpaid billing system on mobile and IP networks. It gives you the power to continuously innovate and differentiate your offerings.

Ericsson Bandwidth Manager. This Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) product is pre-integrated with Ericsson Broadband Charging to create bandwidth-related rules on a per service and per subscriber basis on any broadband network. It lets you hyper-customize any type of broadband service to serve a diverse subscriber base.

Ericsson Prepaid System. A configurable and extensible real-time charging solution for CDMA operators, and combined CDMA and GSM operators, Prepaid System integrates voice, messaging, data, content and VoIP, as well as credit control postpaid on mobile and IP networks. It supports the evolution to next generation networks and can turn service innovation into a major differentiator.

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Our solutions enable you to offer a broad range of tailored promotions, features, rate plans, discounts, policies and cross-product promotions to any type of customer account. Begin the evolution to a single online charging and policy system using your existing infrastructure investments. Consider our solutions if you want to:

• Increase revenues. Market offers ahead of the competition to capture a premium price and to create converged offers that drive up-sell and cross-sell across your service portfolio.
• Provide a premium, profitable customer experience. Give customers the personalized offers that fit their lifestyle and unique preferences so you can keep them loyal and engaged.
• Achieve continuous differentiation. Rapidly create profitable service offers and bring them to market ahead of the competition.
• Protect current investments. Evolve your charging and policy infrastructure at your own pace, and leverage existing investments while enhancing your ability to offer real-time charging and controls as well as market-leading offers, plans, and promotions.
• Reduce cost. Leverage our Application Server based Charging, Policy and Subscriber Database on a single, geo-redundant platform to reduce operations costs and maximize your capital investment.
• Speed time-to-market. By delivering our solutions on the market-leading application server, we enable an onsite service innovation and delivery model so that new marketing concepts and services can be brought to market quickly without the long lead time and cost of a product development cycle.

With a range of delivery options available, including product, managed services, and an application server based model, our solutions can be delivered to meet your needs.