Price Plans - Data (FT-1014.002)
About this document
Scope
This document provides background information as well as a functional description of the FT-1014.002 Price Plans - Data standard feature. The described feature is supported from the release version 4.0 onwards.
Note
Price Plans - Data is a standard feature and does not require a special license.
This feature is part of the Usage-based Charging functionality with number FN-1023.
Feature Availability
Feature Version | Available from | Summary of changes |
|---|---|---|
v1 | CMP Release 4.0 | Initial release |
Feature overview
Goals
The aim of the Price Plans - Data feature is to introduce Data charging to all types of Zone Price Plans.
Functionality of the feature
Price Plans - Data feature introduces Data for all types of Zone Price Plans (Prepaid or Postpaid, and Individual or Pool).
Defining a Monthly Included value determines the amount of data usage of each Zone of the Zone Model within a Billing Cycle before an overage rate is applied, i.e. the Monthly Included Service is covered by the Monthly Recurring Charge (MRC) of the Price Plan. The Monthly Included allowance can be defined in kB, MB, GB, TB, or PB.
For data, there is no distinction between outgoing and terminating traffic.
CMP provides an option to set an overage price based on a time slice structure for data usage over the included limit or to allow using data overage at no charge by selecting the Included option. The same or different overage rates can be charged for each of the time slices, as well as combinations of rated and included time slices may be configured.
Example
Included data usage for the Home Zone is set to 100 MB and the overage rate is $0.15/MB.
The first 100 MB of data used within the Billing Cycle will not incur a charge, but each MB after the 100th will incur a $0.15 charge until the count resets to zero at the beginning of the next Billing Cycle.
Overusage Cost Cap
Overusage Cost Cap defines the maximum amount of money value, that is allowed to be charged for the total overage on the Price Plan. Overusage Cost Cap is only applicable for Postpaid Price Plans.
In case the Price Plan has a Cost Cap limit configured and the total overage costs of the Price Plan are higher than this Cost Cap within a Billing Cycle, an additional credit line is created for the cost difference between the real costs and the cap.