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Roaming On LTE
Posted on 22. Apr, 2010 by pescamars
in LteWorld Forum
Is someone having informations about LTEi Roamingi ?
LTE need to come up with a new billing scheme compared to current systems for mcuh reasons :
"With LTE, however, the device gets an IP address right when the device registers with the network after startup. In effect, the 2G / 3G packet call becomes history with LTE. While in the home network this can probably be managed quite well from a billing point of view, I wonder how network operators will proceed for roaming."
aLSO mobile device should support more than 10 freuency bands.
If someone have any ideas about that can helps to resolve this issue it will be good !! ??
TKS
Check 3GPP 23.401
Check 3GPPi 23.401 (http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/html-info/23401.htm) for more
5.7A Charging
Accounting functionality is provided by the Serving GW and the PDN GW.
The Serving GW shall be able to collect and report, for each UEi, accounting information, i.e. the amount of data transmitted in uplink and downlink direction categorized with the QCIi and ARP pair per UE per PDN connection. For GTP-based S5i/S8i the accounting information is collected and reported per bearer.
The Serving GW shall not collect UE accounting information for packets that are being processed for the sole purpose of indirect forwarding.
The Serving GW for inter-operator charging, and the PDN GW shall be able to interface the OFCSi according to charging principles and through reference points specified in TS 32.240 [51].
The PDN GW shall be able to provide charging functionality for each UE according to TS 23.203 [6].
A PDN GW without a Gx interface shall be able to support flow based online and offline charging based on local configuration and interaction with the Online and Offline Charging Systems.
The PDN GW shall be able to collect and report, for each UE, accounting information, i.e. the amount of data transmitted in uplink and downlink direction categorized with the QCI and ARP pair per UE per PDN connection. For GTP-based S5/S8 the accounting information is collected and reported per bearer.
The Charging identifier(s) generated by the PDN GW per bearer for GTP-based S5/S8 and per PDN connection for PMIP-based S5/S8 and the PDN GW address for control signalling enables the correlation of the reporting from a Serving GW and a PDN GW.
The PDN GW receives Charging Characteristics from the Serving GW through GTP-S5/S8, or through PMIP for PMIP-based S5/S8. The handling of the Charging Characteristics in the P GW is defined in TS 32.251 [44].
First LTE eoaming tests has been done
http://www.gsmworld.com/membership/members-press-releases/2010/members_p...