Price Plans - Voice - Origin Based Rating (FT-1014.004)

About this document

Scope

This document provides background information as well as a functional description of the FT-1014.004 Price Plans - Voice - Origin Based Rating advanced feature. The described features are supported from the release version 4.3 onwards.

Note

Price Plans - Voice - Origin Based Rating is an advanced feature and requires a special license. Ensure that you have agreed with Mavoco about the usage of this feature before taking it into use.

This feature is part of the Usage-based Charging functionality with number FN-1023.

Feature Availability

Feature overview

Goals

The aim of the Price Plans - Voice - Origin Based Rating feature is to introduce Voice charging to all types of Zone Price Plans.

Out of scope

• Network Price Plans and Voice Supplementary Services charging is not supported

• Voice charging related to APN and Rating Group is not relevant

• International calling and roaming indicator in Rating Logic (i.e., rating has no logic to detect or treat international or roaming calls in any specific way)

• Real-time service blocking for Offline CDR Voice

Functionality of the feature

Price Plans - Voice - Origin Based Rating feature introduces Voice for all types of Zone Price Plans (Prepaid or Postpaid, and Individual or Pool). Existing Price Plan change rules and logic applies also for the Voice elements of the Price Plans.

Voice charging is fully optional, Users can select from multiple Voice Charge Types to define the set of services to be charged. At Zone Price Plan creation the following Voice Charge Types can be selected:

• None: Voice Usage is not charged.

• MO: Only Mobile Originated (outgoing) Voice usage is charged.

• MT: Only Mobile Terminated (incoming) Voice usage is charged.

• MO+MT: Mobile Originated (outgoing) and Mobile Terminated (incoming) Voice usage is charged.

If Voice Charge Type is set to MO, MT, or MO+MT, charges must be defined for the selected services, however, they can be 0.0 for free of charge.

Defining a Monthly Included value determines how many voice minutes can be used in 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.

CMP provides an option to set an overage price based on a time slice structure for voice usage over the included limit or to allow using voice 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.

CMP can charge MO Voice based on two different, selectable Voice Charge Models: Simple, and Destination based Rating. If the Charge Model Simple is selected, CMP will rate the call based on A Party Location, which is defined by the Location Zone in which the SIM is located and the time of day (Time Slice).

CMP will rate MT Voice based on the B Party SIM Location Zone, which is defined by the Location Zone in which the SIM is located and the time of day (Time Slice).

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.