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TY - GEN
T1 - Evolution of charging and billing models for GSM and future mobile internet services
AU - Cushnie, John
AU - Hutchison, David
AU - Oliver, Huw
PY - 2000/1/1
Y1 - 2000/1/1
N2 - Mobile telephone communications and the Internet are converging and may eventually operate on a common technical platform, using TCP/IP networks as the main backbone medium. Mobile telephones are converging to Internet terminals, allowing the user access to email, Web browsing and all the other Internet services currently available from a desktop computer environment. In order to provide improved infrastructure for Global System for Mobile (GSM) based Internet services using 2nd and 3rd generation (2G and 3G) the mobile network providers have the requirement to generate revenue for the services they provide. To do this the mobile network providers first need to capture the charging and billing data from the network. This paper describes the evolution of the GSM telephone networks and future mobile Internet services, via the General Purpose Radio Service (GPRS) and Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS). The methods for collecting the charging and billing information and charging models for processing this data into subscriber bills are discussed. A selection of proposed Internet charging models are applied to the mobile network market and their relative suitability is examined.
AB - Mobile telephone communications and the Internet are converging and may eventually operate on a common technical platform, using TCP/IP networks as the main backbone medium. Mobile telephones are converging to Internet terminals, allowing the user access to email, Web browsing and all the other Internet services currently available from a desktop computer environment. In order to provide improved infrastructure for Global System for Mobile (GSM) based Internet services using 2nd and 3rd generation (2G and 3G) the mobile network providers have the requirement to generate revenue for the services they provide. To do this the mobile network providers first need to capture the charging and billing data from the network. This paper describes the evolution of the GSM telephone networks and future mobile Internet services, via the General Purpose Radio Service (GPRS) and Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS). The methods for collecting the charging and billing information and charging models for processing this data into subscriber bills are discussed. A selection of proposed Internet charging models are applied to the mobile network market and their relative suitability is examined.
KW - 1G
KW - 2G
KW - 3G
KW - Billing
KW - Charging
KW - GPRS
KW - GSM
KW - Internet
KW - Mobile
KW - UMTS
U2 - 10.1007/3-540-39939-9
DO - 10.1007/3-540-39939-9
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
AN - SCOPUS:23044521414
SN - 3540410767
SN - 9783540410768
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 312
EP - 323
BT - Quality of Future Internet Services
A2 - Crowcroft, Jon
A2 - Roberts, James
A2 - Smirnov, Mikhail I.
PB - Springer
T2 - 1st COST 263 International Workshop on Quality of Future Internet Services, QofIS 2000
Y2 - 25 September 2000 through 26 September 2000
ER -