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All You Need To Know About 2014 EU Roaming Regulation: Read our latest informative whitepaper about 2014 EU Roaming regulations and get an overview on the implications they have for domestic service providers (DSPs), potential Alternative Roaming Providers (ARPs) and Local Breakout Providers (LBO). You will find the download link for the whitepaper on the last slide.
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All You Need To Know About
2014 EU Roaming Regulation
• DSP – Domestic Service Provider
The telecom service provider that supplies the mobile services
in the home country. It can be either a fully fledged network, or
an MVNO
• ARP – Alternative Roaming Provider
ARP – Alternative Roaming Provider, is the entity that provides
the alternative roaming service.
• LBO – Local Breakout Provider
LBO provider – ARP that provides only local data services in the
visited country
Terminology
• Part of the EU digital agenda with specific aim to
increase customer protection and move towards a
unified European mobile market
• The goals:
EU Roaming Background
A tighter integration
across EU Telecom
market
An increased
competition at retail
and wholesale level
A gradual move
towards a "roaming
free" Europe
• Usually the major factor for choosing a mobile operator is
considered to be the domestic price, the roaming price
being accepted by default as imposed by the domestic
service provider
• In parallel with the decoupling, the regulatory framework
imposes new roaming price caps for voice, SMS, data at
both wholesale and retail level
• By separating roaming services from the home country
service the regulation aims to open up the competition on
the roaming services within EU that should naturally lead
to a reduction of the retail price
What Are The Commercial Implications
First Model - ARP
Second Model - LBO
Implications For DSP
To comply, the Domestic Service Provider must at a minimum level:
• (ARP enablement) Implement the provisioning process required to
enable ARP subscriptions
• (ARP enablement) Implement real-time logic that routes the roaming
charging events towards the ARP systems
• (ARP enablement) Implement wholesale billing process with the ARP
• (ARP enablement) Notify the partner ARP network of subscriber
mobility events within the EU
• (LBO enablement) Remove steering logic across EU to allow their
users to use LBO when attached to EU network
• (LBO enablement) Reject any roaming data traffic that uses the EU
Internet APN
ARP Infrastructure Requirements
The infrastructure that ARPs require is at least comprised of:
• Real-time charging platform
• Prepaid platform for customer subscription and account balance
management
• Perhaps postpaid capabilities if business case allows this
• Payments platform for top-ups, voucher management
• Messaging capabilities for regulated SMS notifications and customer
care notifications
• Provisioning platform for integration with the domestic service
provider
• Wholesale solution for settlement with the domestic service provider
LBOs Technical Requirements
The technical needs of LBO providers are simple and straightforward:
• Implement local-break-out functionality in their network. This is a standard
3GPP feature, and does not require complex changes on the legacy
infrastructure
• Implement a provisioning platform to send notifications to the DSP
• Modify the wholesale process, so local data traffic is not charged to the
domestic service provider
• Implement data charging functionality for the inbound roamers using local data
LBO providers can enable secondary tools to improve customer insight:
• Implement location monitoring, to understand subscriber movement, and
detect roamers arrival
• Implement reporting across the LBO solution, for better support of the
marketing process
Where can Computaris help 1/3
Where can Computaris help 2/3
Where can Computaris help 3/3
For Domestic Service Providers
For ARPs For LBO Providers
Computaris can offer
several individual
elements
consolidated into a
single platform.
Computaris’
lightweight MVNO/E
platform can be
offered instead of
individual
components
Lightweight fully
fledged Prepaid
Charging Platform
can be offered
instead of individual
components
DSP ARP LBO
www.computaris.com
Thank You
Download page for:
Computaris 2014 EU Roaming
Regulation Whitepaper