3G计费系统的探索:时不我待

Thinking about 3G billing: don't wait for 3G

3G时代是移动多媒体时代,但是移动多媒体时代并不会等着3G的来临才出现。全球的移动运营商已在2.5G网络上提供移动内容服务并在应对由内容计费带来的新挑战。明确了由于移动内容服务在移动网络中的发展给计费模式带来的挑战,并讨论了计费模式在过渡期的发展,其中还介绍了一些欧洲运营商的经验:它们正面临的问题以及采取的应对方法。

The author thinks about 3G as enabling mobile multimedia - but mobile multimedia is not waiting for 3G to come along. Mobile operators around the world are already launching mobile content services on so-called 2.5G networks, and are already dealing with the new challenges presented by content billing. By the time they launch 3G services, these operators will already be running the billing systems necessary to support them. In this article, we identify what challenges the billing system presents for the development of content services in mobile networks, and how the situation will develop in the medium term. We look in particular at the experiences of some of the European operators: what issues they are facing, and how they are dealing with them.