Policy
management needed for standards soup
©Mobile Europe – August 2007 – Alun Lewis
Fergus
O'Reilly, director of product marketing at charging and billing
specialist Highdeal believes that, "While a lot of important
work has already been done in the 3GPP charging groups, such
as TSG SA WG5, this is now being rejigged for Release 8 through
work being done jointly by ATIS (the US Alliance for Telecommunications
Industry Solutions) and 3GPP, 3GPP2 and the ITU, leading to
common standards for charging across the NGN
space.
He also highlights the continued need for recognition of how
customers are going to interact with the increasingly dynamic
pricing models demanded by a very open network world. "Telecommunications
providers are already creating complex bundles of voice, data
and entertainment services," he adds. "As we open
up networks and move between different access technologies,
customers are going to rely on Electronic Programme Guides
being able to display prices relevant to that customer, at
that particular time, on that particular device."
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