The international roaming business has completely changed over the past few years. The time that operators agree on a standard roaming contract, do some testing and let the traffic flow, is definitely over. It won’t be long until all of the roaming traffic will be under an Inter Operator Tariff discount agreement. Furthermore, because of

In the past the retail rates for roaming were set by adding a surcharge on the TAP value charged by your roaming partner (IOT+ model). The main issue with this model is the complexity of retail tariffs. When an operators has 200 live roaming partners who each have 200 different rates for the different destinations

The roaming business is developing in a fast way. Your inbound traffic might be diverted to your competitor in a matter of seconds, usage patterns might change which influence your P&L, wholesale costs can go up leaving you with negative margins on your Outbound traffic or your traffic steering tool might not be working properly.