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Roaming solutions for mobile operators in Latin America and the caribbean . CANTO 2006 Punta Cana, 21.06.2006. Small is beautifull, but. Is today’s bilateral roaming practice good for small Caribbean Operators. ?.
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Roaming solutionsfor mobile operators in Latin America and the caribbean CANTO 2006 Punta Cana, 21.06.2006
Small is beautifull, but.. Is today’s bilateral roaming practice good for small Caribbean Operators ?
Small Caribbean Operators don’t have the economy of scale to establish worldwide bilateral roaming coverage Gross Margin Gross Margin Roaming Revenues Roaming related costs Roaming related costs Roaming related costs Small GSM-operator: ~10-30 bilateral RoamingRelations Big GSM-operator: ~150-400 bilateral RoamingRelations Medium GSM-operator: ~30-150 bilateral RoamingRelations
Comfone Key2roam Clearing Signalling Roaming Coordination Comfone Key2roam – The Hub solution PMN A PMN B PMN C One agreement Reduced complexity Increased availability
Comfone wVoIP/GSM network solution Several operators in each country GSM-VPMN Visited Public Mobile Network International Roaming Agreements GSM-HPMN Subscriber‘s Home Public Mobile Network PMN Subscriber roaming in 3rd party GSM network Subscriber PMN wVoIP-VPMN Global wVoIP Services Unilateral Roaming Agreement for wVoIP Subscriber VoIP to GSM Subscriber roaming in Comfone wVoIP network Internet worldwide
Business Model Principles • Standard unilateral roaming relation between Comfone and Mobile Operator (no deviations) for signaling, SIM-authentication and clearing • Mobile Operator acting as HPMN • Comfone acting as VPMN • Single mobile number for the subscriber (end-user), regardless of whether the subscriber is using the GSM network or VoIP. 3. The end-user device will be a dual mode hand-set (wLAN-enabled smart phones) with easy-to-use wVoIP functionality.