Service Providers Tap New Solutions To Build Multi-Supplier Storefronts. Next-Gen Charging Systems Comprise Key To Converged Third-Party Merchant Transactions.
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Screenplays - September 2007 - Peter Lambert
Service providers have suddenly begun implementing a new generation of rating and charging platforms to meet two emerging marketplace mandates: to converge fixed and mobile IP and to transform themselves into retail storefronts for a surfeit of third-party merchant products and services.
Nascent competition to deliver any service to subscribers over any network or device is now spawning early deployments of charging systems based on 3GPP IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) or IMS-like frameworks. Those frameworks decouple applications, session signaling and support systems, including rating and charging systems, from individual underlying networks.
At the same time, the proliferation of Web services content, communications, social networking and commerce portals is prompting service providers to find ways to monetize these otherwise over-the-top IP service wares.
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