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Pay As You Go (PAYG) Broadband Deals
While broadband offers broadband service to subscribers, usually they give broadband contracts and usually monthly bases. Subscribers should register broadband service for a month with contract that has been deal between subscriber and provider. For a month you will be given a mount of bandwidth, download and speed. In case your bandwidth is over than … Continue reading
EVDO call flow: PDSN to Accounting server
Two nodes which have the main function to the EVDO call flow is PDSN and accounting server. Public Data Service Node (PDSN) is responsible to all the process related to data service session such handling Point to Point Protocol (PPP) session, allocation IP Pool, processing authentication authorization and accounting (AAA) process etc. meanwhile accounting server … Continue reading
Charging mechanism on mobile broadband service
Charging process When session from mobile broadband service succeed to be authenticated by Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) server then PDSN will send accounting request to charging system either PDSN itself, AAA service or dedicated charging platform such as Online Charging Service (OCS) and charging gateway. Once the charging system allows the session which that … Continue reading
Accounting process on mobile broadband service
Accounting function Mobile broadband service will require accounting process to charge mobile broadband subscriber while they access high speed internet access. Accounting process responsible to deduct subscriber balance for the prepaid phone number and record the transaction on the Call Detail Record (CDR) for the postpaid phone number. Accounting process could be done by Authentication, … Continue reading
Prepaid tariff promotion
Compared to the postpaid phone number, there will be more promotion on prepaid phone number. The reason why telecommunication companies promote more to the prepaid phone number is subscriber prefers to choose prepaid than postpaid phone numbers. Subscriber just needs to buy reload voucher at many where once the have insufficient balance to make a … Continue reading
Prepaid and postpaid phone numbers
Telecommunication companies divide their subscribers into two kinds prepaid and postpaid subscribers. Both prepaid and postpaid subscribers are divided to differentiate many things such as how they will be charged, what kind of promotion packages will be applied to both subscribers, what are the benefits to have prepaid and postpaid phone number etc. Almost telecommunication … Continue reading
Intelligent Network (IN)
Intelligent Network (IN) is playing the key roll on the telecommunication infrastructures. The main function of Intelligent Network (IN) is to charge any transaction made by prepaid subscribers while accessing the telecommunication service such as mobile internet service. The key point is charging to the prepaid subscribers. Meanwhile postpaid subscriber will be done by another … Continue reading
The Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) servers
The two terms of wireless or mobile internet services related to how subscriber will be permitted to access internet and how they will be charged are Authentication and Accounting functions. One more function that still important is Authorization process but at this time I will leave the last function. We can say that Public Data … Continue reading
Charging mechanism of wireless internet services
It is different with fixed line internet access e.g. via Internet Service Provider (ISP) which has dedicated bandwidth allocation, wireless or mobile broadband internet service has various charging mechanisms. This is to anticipate unstable connection which used to happen to wireless internet service. It is fairer that when subscriber is getting slow speed during accessing … Continue reading