Enghouse Networks attempted to address trending industry concerns via a one-hour live webinar conducted in partnership with Juniper Research, entitled Billing & Charging Evolution: The Future of Roaming Clearing Services.
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.
With barriers falling, VoLTE is set to become the default for voice roaming. Most operators aim to move voice to a single core, phasing out legacy CS. VoLTE and eventually VoNR will lead the way.
To stay competitive in voice services, moving to VoLTE roaming is essential. Enghouse Networks offers solutions to help you launch and monetise quickly, starting with the growing role of S8HR.
VoLTE is widely deployed, but VoLTE roaming adoption remains slow. With 2G and 3G nearing shutdown, operators must now see VoLTE roaming as essential to staying in the voice business.
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.
Wholesale voice is a crucial part of the telecoms industry, making effective routing of both national and international traffic possible and generating considerable revenue. The industry is changing rapidly bringing with it increased challenges but an expanding range of new opportunities. These changes have the potential to completely reshape the industry and how businesses operate.