The challenge

Billing system suppliers need to provide operators with a more accurate understanding of content and application usages, in order to optimize billing: e.g. charging both based on traffic consumed and according to type of content.

Qosmos solution

The Qosmos system extracts information on content usage at the finest granular level (per user, per service, or per application) enabling billing suppliers to generate extremely accurate charging and billing information. This is made possible by extracting a rich catalog of relevant information attributes such as content, volume, sender, receiver, caller, callee, phone number, mobile ID, URL, etc.

Benefits

For billing system suppliers

• Ability to provide advanced, differentiated OSS / BSS solution
• Revenue management, intelligent usage policy management, subscriber usage monitoring
• IPDR & CDR generation at network, service, application or user levels
• Guaranteed accuracy of multi-service billing
• Seamless integration into existing billing solution

For operator

• In-depth understanding of customer behavior increases ARPU and reduces churn
• Reduced fraud and revenue leakage

For subscribers

• Get a fair deal, by paying for what they really use

Example of Implementation 

Information Extracted

Recognized applications and protocols (sample)

• Audio/Video (H.323, RTP, RTCP, SIP, MGCP, MMSE, RTSP, Shoutcast, Yahoo Video, MSN Video, SCCP, etc.)
• VoIP (H.323, SIP, RTP)
• Instant Messaging (Aim, MSN, Skype, Yahoo, Google Talk, QQ, etc.)
• Network (IP, TCP, FTP, SNMP, etc.)
• Web applications (Dailymotion, Google, eBay, Google Earth, HTTP, MySpace, Wikipedia, YouTube, etc.)
• Webmail (Gmail, Hotmail, Livemail, Squiremail, Yahoo mail, etc.)

Extracted information (sample)

• Content type, volume, sender, receiver, caller, callee, called party, phone number, MSISDN, IMSI, URL, MIME type, etc.