Content-based Mobile Services, Billing Realization

With the continuous development of telecom business, especially thecloser and closer approach of 3G business in recent years, telecomcarriers are confronted with the increasingly imminent requirement tooffer subscribers services with diversified content. Essentially, theonly and ultimate object carriers offer services is to acquire higherbusiness incoming, therefore, the introduction of content inevitablybrings forth the new business requirement for billing. Relatively,Content-based Billing is a concept with a broad range, and refers to agreat lot of elements. This paper, aiming at the key sector of how toimplement content-based billing, analyses the current businesssupporting systems, then proposes corresponding plans on theirreconstruction, which would enable carriers to support content-basedbilling with existing network infrastructures and business supportingsystem environment, and thereby provides prospect and possibility forservices with more and richer content.This paper starts with the actual operation status and businessrequirement, to establish the target they should reach, and then basedon the necessary analysis of requirement, ends with the integral plansof reconstructing billing system of business supporting system. Moreover,for the difficulties in billing, such as the collection point ofcontent-based billing, the real-time billing in 3G network infrastructure,and etc, this paper does some research, along with reference to domesticand international research result and experience, to propose some viablesolutions and plans, which are also the key points this paper tries toset forth.Based on the system reconstruction plans in this paper, after months ofdevelopment and test, a software realization has been released to production in Jiangsu Mobile Communication Corporation, China.