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Case Studies
Case
Study 1: Mobile Content Portal Billing
The Problem
Our client, a new entrant in the mobile video and content
download sector, needed to implement a system to charge
mobile operators an appropriate rate for content usage by
mobile phone users based on time of day, volumes of downloads,
numbers of new customers and level of premium value. They
also needed to provide detailed categorised usage and invoicing
records to the content providers for the running of their
platform. The solution vendors were offering expensive variants
of their mediation platforms or subsets of rating and billing
products.
The Solution
We identified the requirement as a variant of the settlement
systems that telecoms operators use to charge each other
for interconnection between networks for call transport
and termination. We suggested an innovative use of a tried
and trusted product, available at a much lower price and
far quicker and cheaper to implement.
The Outcome
The company was able to implement the platform with the
help of our project management consultancy for a saving
in development costs of approximately 17% compared to other
solutions.
Case Study 2: Mobile Billing Across National Boundaries
The Problem
The client was a mobile operator, pledged to its shareholders
to reducing costs and cutting out replication in an operation
across multi-national boundaries, yet wanting to be first
to launch an incentive based scheme for users (e.g. send
100 texts in a month and get so many downloads free) in
several different countries. Three different IT teams were
engaged in developing a solution utilising the different
capabilities of three separate platforms when we were called
in.
The Solution
We ran a series of workshops to define a Service Oriented
Architecture solution for the problem which helped to identify
how one system could be built and implemented to provide
the functionality in a three phase integration project.
The Outcome
The company beat its competition for the marketing launch
and avoided duplication.
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