Telcordia® Real-Time Charging

Give your business the ability to enable competitive differentiation and rapid time-to-market with a real-time, convergent charging solution

Every provider needs a flexible, affordable convergent charging solution that can handle the demands of prepaid-postpaid, voice-data-content, fixed-mobile-cable, and circuit-packet convergence. Our Real-Time Charging solution is designed to support this "convergence" and will enable you to:

Speed time-to-market and time-to-revenue for new advanced services
Reap major cost savings by consolidating charging on one robust, convergent platform
Increase customer loyalty, retention, and revenue
Reduce integration cost and complexity with an open, flexible convergent charging platform that uses common rating and business rules for all services
Obtain first-mover advantage by offering creative new service bundles and volume and affinity promotions quickly and easily
Expand your service offerings and revenue potential by supporting an extended value chain that includes multiparty revenue sharing
Grow revenue through real-time merchandising to any customer
Put the customer at the heart of your services with a real-time account that can enable an interactive relationship for all your customers
Maintain network-grade reliability and availability with high throughput and low latency
Deliver services on a four-way blade application server that scales to millions of subscribers with "five nines" (99.999%) redundancy

Our Real-Time Charging solution is available as licensed software or as a hosted solution on a single, feature-rich platform for existing networks, and it is also able to migrate to an IMS environment. It features:

Robust convergent charging with real-time balance management of multiple prepaid and postpaid account buckets, all with carrier-grade reliability
Flexible rating rules such as time of day/day of week rating, step-down rating
Loyalty programs including real-time bonus, cross-product promotions and discounts
Enhanced features - call screening, parental controls, asynchronous alerting, spending limits, group accounts
Mobile data rating - real-time rating, complex offers, instantaneous offers
Intelligent, real-time mediation providing collection, correlation and processing of online and off-line transactions using standard and proprietary protocols

Globally deployed by operators from MVNOs to the largest Tier 1 service providers, Real-Time Charging has achieved outstanding price performance from initial market introduction.

Disclaimer
Implementation by a telecom services provider of any of the services described herein may infringe one or more third party patents. For example, Freedom Wireless, Inc. is the owner of a number of patents (i.e. U.S. Patents Nos. 5,722,067 and 6,157,823) related to pre-paid wireless services. A service provider will have to make its own determination on the applicability or validity of any these patents to its services and to make its own determination regarding whether a license under such patents is necessary. Telcordia does not and will not offer any opinion on the applicability or validity of such patents and does not provide indemnity to any party implementing these services including those using any Telcordia product. Telcordia is able to offer its Prepaid Wireless Hosted Solution service under license from Freedom Wireless, Inc.