iCore Prepaid Gateway

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The demand for prepaid services is growing in every market, large and small. Whether it’s tourists, business travelers or first-time wireless subscribers, prepaid services can greatly increase your network subscriber base and profitability. Prepaid services allow rapid revenue generation and faster deployment to emerging markets.

With the iCore Prepaid Gateway, operators can provide a fully featured prepaid offering. From top-up card generation to real-time prepaid processing to hot billing, the iCore Prepaid Gateway provides the life cycle support.

System Capabilities

• Can be deployed as an adjunct to existing wireless and/or wireline networks, or as part of an integrated network
• Fully flexible distributor/rate plan with up to 700 different rate plan options
• Create off-peak and discount periods
• Specify separate airtime and land rates
• 24x7 airtime rate matrix
• Landline rate based on destination
• Operator flexibility to selectively block out an account for any reason
• Dial-in access for calling cards, prepaid cards
• Account re-charge via prepaid card or dial-in access
• Account code and PIN generation
• Balance notifications via announcements (call-in and automatic), warning tones, SMS, and USSD
• Pre-set account expiration
• Supports up to 20 languages

OA&M

• Provides the operator with service log reports and system level operational measurements
• Delivery subscriber and distributor summary bills

Configuration

• System and subscriber provisioning configured through powerful and intuitive GUIs
• Flexibly define distributors and rate plans
• Up to 70 distributors can be defined, with each distributor having up to 10 different rate plans
• Subscribers provisioned with a simple "check in the box"
• For each subscriber, operators can configure the maximum allowable credit limits, as well as the payment method

Billing

• Performs real-time debiting of subscriber account balance
• Call disconnect when the account balance is depleted
• Per-second precision billing
• Provides subscriber with balance notification via announcements, warning tones, USSD or short messages to recharge their account balance
• First and subsequent incremental billing
• VAT and service charge billing
• Bill generation based on configurable pre-defined billing cycles
• Generate subscriber and distributor summary bills, based on system-generated detailed CDRs