Openet, today announced that BT has installed its NFV-ready Evolved Charging, a real-time BSS solution to monetize its consumer mobile service. BT Mobile will harness the added agility and flexibility of Openet’s real-time charging platform to drive fast time-to-market for its new MVNO venture.
By deploying Openet’s innovative virtualized charging platform, BT will be able to rapidly test and introduce new mobile services, quickly adopt new business models and minimize associated costs, said Openet. It will also drive advances in customer experience for BT’s mobile users by providing real-time insights enabling customers to have complete control over their mobile services.
The virtualized BSS platform enables BT Mobile to provide immediate visibility to balances, usage notifications and manage customer usage allowances. Customer bundle plans and associated add-ons can be prioritized and re-calculated mid bill cycle and allow subscribers to be auto-upgraded to higher allowances.
With the deployment, BT Mobile will see the fixed line incumbent, which has 25.5 million customers, becoming a true converged operator offering a full quad-play capability (mobile, fixed broadband, paid TV and fixed telephony services).
Mark O’Flaherty, Director BT Consumer IT
Openet were instrumental in enabling us to meet our target launch date. The quality of the resources and technical design supplied by Openet allowed us to work collaboratively to deliver a solution to support the highest customer service quality.
Niall Norton, CEO at Openet
BT Mobile brings a great deal of exciting momentum to the mobile space. It therefore requires an agile and cost effective BSS infrastructure that can support its anticipated growth and continue to deliver a differentiated customer experience. Openet is the perfect partner to ensure BT Mobile achieves its ambitions.
