Impact of mobility and content services on settlements

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Impact of mobility and content services on
settlements

• Charging Competence Center _at_ ELN
• Ruben Marsman

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Agenda

• Approach
• Short Overview Results
• Conclusions
• Recommendations

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Approach Business View

• Not focusing on technical issues only
• Settlements are done business to business
• Define business roles involved in content service
• Roles can be combined in one party (ISP)
• Make model with roles to look at relations and
  interactions

Settlement definition Settlements are seen as
the payment of amounts, resulting from the
accounting process, between two business actors.
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Business Model
Portal Marketplace for users and content provider
to respectively find and provide content
Content Provider Provides and sells content
services towards the user
Payment Mediator Takes care of trust and money
transactions between payment providers
User Consumes content services and pays online
with his account
Payment Provider Handles user subscriptions and
provides payment services
CP
PMS
PPS
PPS
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Portal
Service Transport
PMT
ISP Content Domain
ISP Home Domain
Transport Provider Provides access and transport
services towards users and service providers
Data
Backbone Provides connectivity and mass transport
between transport providers
Accounting Data
Service Interaction
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Business Model Non-roaming scenario
CP
PMS
PPS
PPS
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Portal
Service Transport
PMT
ISP Content Domain
ISP Home Domain
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Business Model roaming scenario
PMS
ISP Visited Domain
CP
PPS
PPS
PPS
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Portal
Service Transport
ISP Home Domain
ISP Content Domain
PMT
Data
Accounting Data
Service Interaction
Usage Money
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Overview Results

• Settlements based on accounting data
• Some of it need to be exchanged in real-time.
• Pre-paid roaming
• Prove of transaction
• Interactions roaming scenario most complex (User
  Mobility)
• Increase of involved business roles
• Increase of real-time interactions for payments
  and inter-working
• Different paths data and payments (home control)

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Conclusions

• Accounting data identified that roles should
  meter
• Need Accounting Server with protocol that
• Supports roaming users (remote access)
• Deals with real-time interaction
• Inter-working home and visited domain
• Access to user account and local services
• Authentication, Authorisation ...
• Need for Payment mediator
• Clearinghouse, Broker
• Trust and decrease number of settlement
  agreements

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Recommendations

• Map results
• On provider based accounting architecture (ING)
• On mobile architecture like 3GPP
• Look at practical issues like
• impact on service (different paths data and
  control)
• scalability
• security
• user interaction
• Look at the issue of reverse charging
• More study into global services (payment
  mediator)