According to Tango Telecom, their Cloud Local Break Out Solution (LBO) will come in handy to manage roaming losses in the next 3-4 years while operators wait for removal of inter-EU roaming which is anticipated to take place after 2016. The cloud based LBO solution negates the need to justify significant resource and financial investment while offering the greatest potential ROI: providing a low-cost, low-risk solution. Tango Telecom. a market leader in policy and charging control, says at the Mobile Roaming World Summit, London, recently that the EU Roaming III legislation represents a real opportunity for proactive EU operators to comply with regulatory requirements and also to compete successfully in the new roaming landscape: keeping and possibly increasing their share of the lucrative roaming pie.
Nigel Portley, Product Strategist, Tango Telecom, explains: “The most recent proposal put before the EU Commission announces the intention to end roaming charges in the EU. While this would appear to cut off a highly valuable revenue stream for operators with one hand, it also opens up the previously unaddressable market of the inbound roamer with the other. Over 250 million Europeans travel each year to destinations within the continent and the vast majority of them either curtail their mobile usage or don’t use it at all. Commentators vary in their estimation of the percentage of roamers do not use data but general consensus puts it between 65% - 75%. By turning these reluctant and dormant roamers into active ones, EU operators have the greatest opportunity to offset the impending loss of roaming revenues from outbound roamers. Read More 'Cloud LBO to defer EU Roaming losses'
