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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Computaris 2014 EU Roaming

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