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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
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Thank You
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