An integrated management platform for the support of advanced Charging, Accounting & Billing schemes in Reconfigurable Mobile Networks
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The convergence of telecommunications industry and the Internet are about to alter the existing business models creating an open market, where a large number of independent application/service providers will offer their services to the users through a limited number of network providers. Furthermore, new concepts such as network reconfigurability and service adaptability require new advanced and holistic solutions for several technical issues related to dynamic service provision as well as flexible charging schemes. In that context, we present the involved business players and the prospective business models for flexible service provisioning and we introduce a generic integrated management platform for Charging, Accounting and Billing enabling flexible service provision in an open marketplace.
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