To have smooth introduction of mobile broadband service to the subscribers, telecommunication companies should prepare the tariff that will be apply to them. Pre defining of charging profile is required on the network elements which involved charging process. Network elements which involved in this process are charging gateway and Intelligent Network (IN). Charging gateway is separate network element which will rate any mobile broadband traffic comes to them either duration, volume and destination bases. Charging gateway should have high flexibility to define many charging profile that may require for having various tariff of mobile broadband service. Intelligent Network (IN) is database location where subscribers’ balance will be deducted once they access the traffic of mobile broadband service
While creating charging profile of mobile broadband service, charging gateway requires some information such as Network Address Server (NAS), how much tariff per 1 minute, how much tariff per 1 Kbps, which destination address will have free of charge or how much tariff of its address while subscribers access those destination (URL), IP Pool of mobile broadband subscribers domain (if require), Intelligent Network (IN) address. Charging gateway also requires what type of protocol needed to connect to Intelligent Network (IN) and how many packages of charging profile they require to charge the entire of mobile broadband service
Network Address Server (NAS) indicates the ID of each PDSN or GGSN that will server mobile broadband service. Usually mobile broadband provider will have several PDSN or GGSN and each of them will have particular NAS ID when they will create charging profile on charging gateway. Some of charging gateway requires IP Pool while creating charging profile and some of them did not need it. IP Pool assigned on the charging gateway should be the same with IP Pool allocated on the PDSN or GGSN
Meanwhile packages of charging profile will determine how many charging profile will be assigned to mobile broadband subscribers. packages of charging profile could be assigned based on how much tariff per 1 minute, 1 Kbps and destination address (URL) hit by mobile broadband subscribers
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