Wholesale & Interconnect Billing
The system eases the complexities of managing diverse partnerships inherent in wholesale and 5G networks, simplifying everything from contract onboarding to billing and settlement.
Maximize Partnerships
Limitless Configurations
A unified and configurable policy-based multi-tenant system that can manage a diverse ecosystem of partners, including distribution, content/OTT, IoT, interconnect, roaming, MVNO, and more. Alepo’s Wholesale Billing includes an end-to-end solution to manage the entire partner lifecycle and support diverse contract policies, revenue models, and settlement modes.
Empower Partners
The system helps operators build strong relationships with partners by managing every interaction and offering more independence with advanced self-service capabilities. Its features empower partners to perform the actions required to run successful business operations, while also improving the operational efficiency of service providers.
Diverse Models Supported
Create n-level partner hierarchy and bill on any network like LTE or 5G for various channels such as:
- Distribution partner
- Content/OTT
- Interconnect and roaming
- MVNO
- Affiliates and agents
Empower your marketing and business development teams with a system that can support various revenue models like:
- Revenue share
- Commission
- Usage-based rating
- Tiered discounts
- And more
Implement 5G Use Cases
5G means new devices, use cases, partnerships, and business models that require a flexible system to generate ROI on the huge network investment. Partner management plays a vital role in an operator’s 5G business, and wholesale billing has the highest potential for innovation with new billing use cases like:
- Network slicing
- Device-based experiences
- Any API event
- Converged offerings
With the surging partnership opportunities 5G brings, it is vital for service providers to offer partners a flexible and robust solution that secures revenue with automated rates and charging mechanisms, enables swift onboarding, and reduces time-to-market with customized business configurations.
Built on the latest technologies with a cloud-native vendor-neutral approach, Alepo seamlessly integrates with other 5G solutions or any standard IT element, preparing operators to seize opportunities as the market evolves.
Support Interconnect Billing
Alepo’s Wholesale Billing supports all legacy interconnect billing use cases, securing revenue streams for service providers by enabling them to charge other operators for use of their network infrastructure, specifically voice, data, SMS, and more. With constantly increasing reliance on data and customers expecting lower voice rates, interconnect partnerships become necessary for service providers to efficiently monetize their networks, manage their partners, and plug revenue leaks. Other highlights of the system include:
Contract Management
Manages partnerships (bilateral, hubbing/aggregator, routing) and defines commitments based on revenue, service usage, penalty breach, and more.
Robust Rating Engine
Processes high volumes of data with an easy-to-use rating system, including:
- Swift handling of frequent rate changes and new additions in realtime
- Rate-based support on number prefix, trunk ID, pulse, destinations, or a combination of these parameters
- Setting times-based special rates
- Multi-currency support
- Real-time bulk upload of new rates
- Prorating and charging
Reconciliation and Settlement
Tracks outbound and inbound traffic flawlessly and generate bills to verify faulty invoices issued by partners.
Billing and Invoicing
Generates invoices for interconnect legacy voice and SMS inbound traffic with support for re-rating, multi-currency, and prompt bill runs.
Optimum Routing Algorithms
Identifies the least-cost routing with an intuitive user interface to compare rates offered by various partners. Routes can be prioritized based on call quality, profit margins, average call duration, answer seizure ratio, or customized routing.
Business Intelligence
Provides a comprehensive technical and managerial reporting module that gives a 360-degree view of the entire interconnect business ecosystem, enables optimization of network resources, and helps review partner performance to plan future strategies.
Flexible Deployment Models
PRIVATE CLOUD
SaaS
NFV
HYBRID CLOUD
APPLIANCE
PRIVATE CLOUD
SaaS
NFV
HYBRID CLOUD
APPLIANCE
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News Releases
As part of a large-scale IT transformation project on the Marshall Islands, state operator National Telecommunications Authority (NTA) decided to implement Alepo’s fully convergent billing solution. The new system is designed to empower NTA to respond to evolving customer needs along with the flexibility to support new services. The solution enables NTA to roll out competitive new 2G, 3G, 4G, and fixed-line data and voice plans, managing and monetizing them from a unified platform. Read the news release.
Bitflux launched Nigeria’s first wholesale LTE services using Alepo’s BSS stack that includes convergent charging and billing, advanced policy and charging control, and a CRM platform. The proven, end-to-end solution empowers Bitflux with a sophisticated service creation environment, enabling rapid time-to-market of new offerings and allowing it to maintain low total cost of ownership. Read the news release.
Case Studies
Bitflux launched Nigeria’s first wholesale LTE service with Alepo’s billing solution, which has an in-built affiliate management module to bill data for wholesale partners. Alepo ensured Bitflux could meet a stringent launch deadline set by the government, without compromising on solution integrity. Read the full story.
Green Com completed a Digital BSS transformation using Alepo’s turnkey solutions for OSS/BSS, policy control, mobile VAS, mobile data and voice charging, convergent billing and charging, interconnect and roaming. Read the full story to learn how Alepo’s BSS transformation solution, including the Interconnect Billing Platform, helped the operator reduce churn by 7.5% and increase its revenue by 10% within two months of deployment.
Blogs
As 5G transforms the customer experience, operators will need to employ newer more advanced revenue models to fully monetize their networks. And to do this, they must first have an effective digital BSS stack. Read the blog Top 7 benefits digital BSS delivers, now and in 5G to understand what makes a BSS transformation essential today.
Introducing new partnership models, across industries and for various wholesale models, is essential to successfully monetize 5G. These partnerships can be facilitated on 5G as well as LTE networks. Read the blog How partnerships are the key to 5G success for telcos to learn how operators can become digital ecosystem enablers.
As smartphones and devices proliferate, customers have expectations that far exceed mere access. Today, service providers must expand their roles and transform into digital service providers in order to succeed. Read CSP to DSP: A Journey of Transformation to know more about how to keep pace with growing demands.