• Roaming Business Scan

    • January 16, 2018
    • Posted by: ise.vermeire
    • Category: Roaming, Service products
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    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
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  • IOT Negotiations Support

    • January 15, 2018
    • Posted by: ise.vermeire
    • Category: Innovation, Service products
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    Nowadays it is not likely to receive any substantial Inbound volumes without having an attractive rate agreed. It won’t be long until all your Inbound volumes will be at a negotiated rate. Having an attractive IOT rate negotiated is not only key for your Inbound volumes but is also crucial to bring a competitive retail
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  • Roaming Retail Rate Plan

    • January 14, 2018
    • Posted by: ise.vermeire
    • Category: Roaming, Service products
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    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
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  • GSM Roaming Training

    • January 13, 2018
    • Posted by: ise.vermeire
    • Category: Service products, Training
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    Connect2Roam offers an extensive "in-house" roaming training focused on the commercial side of Roaming. During a 3 day workshop  we cover 3 key elements in Roaming: Wholesale Roaming Business Case Value Drivers, Ways to improve EBITDA, Business Dashboard  Steering of Roaming (SoR) Wholesale Pricing, M2M Wholesale Pricing, VoLTE Wholesale Pricing Revenue Assurance IOT negotiations Target
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  • Roaming Reporting tool

    • January 12, 2018
    • Posted by: ise.vermeire
    • Category: Roaming, Service products
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    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.
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  • Roaming Revenue Assurance Scan

    • January 11, 2018
    • Posted by: ise.vermeire
    • Category: Revenue Assurance, Service products
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    When meeting with operators we are often asked about revenue assurance on their roaming business. Is all Inbound traffic being invoiced to our Roaming Partner? Are the right rates applied? Do we receive all TAP files for our Outbound traffic? Are all our TAP files for Outbound traffic of our Postpaid customers, processed in our
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  • Cost Savings Program

    • January 10, 2018
    • Posted by: ise.vermeire
    • Category: Cost saving, Service products
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    The profitability of your roaming business is constantly under pressure because of lower IOT rates agreed. This means that your “roaming enabler” cost will have to keep track with this development in order to prevent a margin squeeze. The relevant roaming enabler services are: 1. Data clearing and financial clearing 2. Voice termination costs using
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  • M2M/IoT Roaming Opportunity Scan

    • January 9, 2018
    • Posted by: IseVermeire
    • Category: Roaming, Service products, Uncategorized
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    M2M Roaming is coming to the surface because of COVID-crisis. During Spring 2020 all travel came to an almost complete stop. However, networks could still see considerable amounts of IMSI’s on their network. When taking a closer look into the data, it became visible that these were M2M devices that were connected to the network,
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