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Optimizing Charging Methods and Billing Models for MMS Providers

The design of charging methods is crucial for MMS providers to create billing solutions aligned with diverse business models. The MMSC (Multimedia Messaging Service Center) collects charging reports and generates Charging Data Records (CDRs) for billing. As billing specifics are outside 3GPP's technical specifications, MMS providers have the flexibility to establish their own models. Common models include flat rates, charges per byte, and subscriptions. The MM8 interface ensures compatibility between MMSC and various billing systems, facilitating effective billing for both post-paid and pre-paid users.

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Optimizing Charging Methods and Billing Models for MMS Providers

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  1. Mobile Communication MMS

  2. Charging and Billing Mobile Communication The design of charging methods is of key importance for enabling MMS providers to develop billing solutions that meet the requirements of various business models. For billing purposes the MMSC collects charging reports, and generates Charging Data records <CDRs> accordingly. CDR’s are then provided to the MMS provider billing system in order to produce subscriber invoices.

  3. Charging and Billing Mobile Communication • Since billing aspects are out of scope of 3GPP technical specifications, it does not define rules for MMS billing, this choice is independently up to the provider. • However it is expected that following billing models will be put in place by MMS providers. • A flat rate multimedia message • Rate per byte of information transported to reflect network resource usage. • Specific rate for events <weather forecast etc> • A subscription for a number of MMS units per month.

  4. Charging and Billing Mobile Communication • In Addition the following configurations are considered. • Message sender pays. • Both sender and recipient pay their respective charges for message handling. • The recipient pays for retrieving messages from VAS provider. • Billing models should support both Post-Paid and Pre-paid MMS credit of units.

  5. Charging and Billing Mobile Communication The MM8 interface between MMSC and a billing system is intended to ensure interpretability between MMSC and billing systems developed by different manufacturers. In particular, an important feature of this interface consists of enabling the transfer of CDRs from the MMSC to the billing system.

  6. Charging and Billing Mobile Communication The identification of Events, which trigger the generation of CDRs and the definition of associated CDRs are provided by 3GPP. Twenty-one types of CDRs have been defined, for MM1 and MM4 interfaces. These CDRs include information such as the duration of a message transmission, charging information <post-paid, prepaid> message content type, message class, message size, message priority, reply charging instructions, recipient address

  7. Charging and Billing Mobile Communication

  8. Charging and Billing Mobile Communication MMS has the potential to be a major revenue generator for Mobile Operators around the world, therefore it is a key question on how this service is priced correctly, to maximize profits, which begs the question on how to make billing for MMS to work properly. No doubt MMS billing is very important for operators around the world.

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