TAP limits modern roaming settlement. Learn how BCE enables accurate, scalable billing for 5G, IoT, and partner demands, helping operators future-proof their wholesale revenue model.
Learn why BCE is essential for modern roaming settlement. This whitepaper outlines TAP’s limitations and how Enghouse WRM enables operators to support 5G, IoT, and future billing models.
The scheduled sunsetting of 2 and 3G is supercharging the shift towards VoLTE Roaming. No longer just an optional extra, it’s now business-critical for many MNOs. While the roll-out has been cautious since the August 2012 launch of the world’s first commercial VoLTE service in Texas by Metro PCS, there has been a noticeable gear shift over the past couple of years.
In the US, AT&T stopped servicing its 2G network over four years ago and in Canada, Bell did the same a year later. Though European carriers are not quite so aggressive about all this—Vodafone has committed to not shutting its GSM network down until 2025, for example, and BT says it will end 3G in 2022 but keep 2G until the late 2020s.
The GSMA’s BCE (Billing & Charging Evolution) is set to disrupt 30 years of roaming billing and settlement processes; enabling operators to maximise roaming revenue by supporting the monetisation of emerging technologies.