Info Image

Airtel Africa Selects BICS for Roaming VAS and Bill-Shock Prevention

Airtel Africa Selects BICS for Roaming VAS and Bill-Shock Prevention BICS

Tango Telecom

BICS

 

Airtel Africa has selected SMART Webvision, BICS’ integrated quality monitoring, tracking & tracing and business intelligence tool for 2G, 3G and 4G  to deploy a range of value-added services across seventeen countries to improve revenues from roaming, over and above their current roaming services. This enables all Airtel Africa’s operating companies to monitor inbound and outbound roaming traffic in real time with BICS’ SMART Webvision, monetise international SMS traffic with its hosted SMS firewall, and increase their overall roaming footprint with its Roaming Hub and Roamfast service. Airtel Africa will also use BICS’ Data Roaming Booster Solution, a service package that will enable Airtel Africa to prevent bill shock and enhance campaign management.  

According to BICS, the SMART Webvision enables Airtel Africa to monitor all its roaming traffic based on different tariffs and technologies. The tool offers real-time information and figures on usage and quality of the roaming experience over 2G/3G/4G, allowing Airtel Africa to tailor offers to different types of subscribers and develop new revenue streams. The bill shock prevention feature of BICS’ Data Roaming Booster Solution allows Airtel to avoid unexpected data roaming charges on subscriber’s bills. SMS messages alert subscribers before they reach preset thresholds, improving transparency and reducing disputed bills. 

Andr Beyers, Chief Marketing Officer of Airtel Africa comments: "With this roaming value-added service we are able to achieve higher levels of visibility of the performance of our networks, which in turn allows us to improve the quality of our roaming offering. The platform also enables us to identify and resolve performance issues in real time to provide higher service levels to our customers." 

"Clmentine Fournier, Regional Vice President Africa, BICS, said: "As the leading signalling and GRX provider in the world and in Africa, all our services are deployed via a hosted model. This is particularly suited to the unique needs of the African market. Our range of value-added services will allow Airtel Africa's operating companies to fix potential quality issues in real time, optimise roaming strategies, and monetise international SMS traffic, improving profitability quickly. The roll-out of our new Bill Shock and Campaign Management value-added service will help improve customer satisfaction and loyalty."

 Source - BICS
Author

Ray is a news editor at The Fast Mode, bringing with him more than 10 years of experience in the wireless industry.

For tips and feedback, email Ray at ray.sharma(at)thefastmode.com, or reach him on LinkedIn @raysharma10, Facebook @1RaySharma

PREVIOUS POST

Sri Lankan T1 MNO Deploys Elitecore's Convergent Charging/Billing, EPC & PCRF for LTE & WIFI Services

NEXT POST

CITIC Telecoms Deploys F5 Traffix Signaling Delivery Controller to Optimize LTE Roaming Services