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.
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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.
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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.