Billing - A Complete Beginner's Guide

Billing (be it for Telecom/SaaS/XaaS/Utility/etc.) is the process of accurately accounting for the Services consumption. 

Through billing, Service Providers calculate and generate bills for the services offered. This includes collecting all kinds of Charges (One time, Recurring & Usage), Rating billable events, handling Disputes/Adjustments, Taxation, Discounting, Payments, Invoicing, etc.

Rajarshi Pathak 
Senior Consultant, Synthesis Systems Inc

Roaming in 5G Network

This article will to cover Telecom Roaming in more broader manner and how it will be conceptualized in a 5G Network.

Rajarshi Pathak 

AVP, Enterprise Applications at Measat Broadcast Network Systems Sdn Bhd

Basics of Telecom Offline Charging

Offline Charging allows Subscribers to consume the service without an upfront balance check or balance reservation. Post Service consumption, service usage records in the form of files & batches are processed for charging the Customers. These service usage files are also known as Charging Data Records (CDRs) or Event Data Records (EDRs).

Rajarshi Pathak 

AVP, Enterprise Applications at Measat Broadcast Network Systems Sdn Bhd

Is the traditional IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) fitting into 5G World?

All these years, IMS is predominantly used for delivering Voice & Video based multimedia services over IP networks like VoLTE, VoWiFi, RCS, etc. As IMS is access independent, it can connect to the 5G core as well (via UPF node) for delivering services like Voice over 5G (Vo5G) and even allow roaming features over 5G/LTE networks.

Rajarshi Pathak 

AVP, Enterprise Applications at Measat Broadcast Network Systems Sdn Bhd