N OB I L L® M V N O

– TH E PL ATFOR M OF CHO I CE

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Nobill MVNO
– the platform of choice
Are you looking for a complete MVNO solution that
will let you maximize your business opportunities
through the delivery of a differentiated offering?
Do you need to replace a complex, inflexible and
costly legacy solution with one which has more
services and the ability to meet changing market
demands?
The market for MVNO solutions is complicated and
an in-depth technical knowledge across a range of
services is required to identify the optimal solution.
Flexibility and short lead times are essential when
configuring attractive campaigns, but the key to
success is to combine this with a solution which
enables efficient cost-control.

Do you need to introduce new services which

combine voice, messaging anda data into easily
understood packages at a range of price points?

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One-stop-shop
Symsoft has developed the Nobill Platform which
is unique in its extensibility. It includes all service
functionality an MVNO needs. A wide range of
application modules within convergent charging,
billing and value added services (VAS) are available
on a common platform. Ideal for MVNOs!
The system is capable of real-time routing, rating
and charging of voice, messaging, content and
bandwidth. It uses the same principles to rate usage,
whether it belongs to a prepaid, postpaid, or a hybrid
account. Segmentation and loyalty programs are
easily managed across payment channels and service
offerings. It’s always real time!
Real time means that service use is rated as it happens
in the network, affecting the customer’s account
balance immediately, if needed. With Nobill, the
window of fraud is effectively closed.
By providing a complete management of
subscriptions, accounts and billing data, vouchers,
phone numbers and SIM cards, Nobill MVNO gives
the operator the tools to keep the customer in focus.
SMSC
GGSN
G row on Demand
Nobill can be tailored to suit each MVNO’s
requirements, whether it is charging, billing or
VAS. Thereafter, new functionality can be enabled
efficiently in parallel with already installed
applications.
Nobill solutions are well proven and in full
commercial operation worldwide. The system scales
linearly to handle future subscriber growth in an
efficient manner.
M u ltiple MVNO:s on
one platform
An important strength with Nobill is its support for
multiple MVNOs and MNOs within a single system.
This capability is possible because MVNOs can be
configured to share the same network. Nobill can also
be configured to span multiple networks.
Using logical partitioning in Nobill, each MVNO
has its own dedicated Service Data Point (SDP)
instance, thereby ensuring complete data separation
and integrity between MVNOs. This means that
each MVNO has its own set of subscribers, products,
tariffs, Customer Care, SIMs and other resources.
The logical partitioning also guarantees separation
of all traffic including SS7 traffic, IVR services, USSD
services, etc.
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Control costs State-of-the-art

Nobill is designed to support small, large and growing
MVNOs. It is important to find the balance between a
best-of-breed approach and maintaining control over
growth expenditures.
Nobill MVNO is designed to keep costs down. The
foundation of Nobill is based on sharing of resources,
reuse of functionality and providing an extensive
portfolio of applications on a common platform.
Nobill is installed on a single integrated hardware
platform. This simplifies administration of databases,
file systems, security audits and monitoring. Using
state-of-the-art hardware, the system is prepared for
efficient capacity expansion.
technology
Nobill is years ahead of its competition, supporting
both current and future network requirements. It
offers a smooth migration to an all IP environment.
All Nobill applications are written in Java, enabling
short lead times for development and rapid roll-
out of new services. New services reach the market
within weeks. Oracle® databases are used in a Solaris®
environment running on high performance hardware
from Sun Microsystems. Symsoft is a Sun OEM
Partner.

The Nobill Client is a common graphical user

interface that is used to administer the entire system.
System operations, administration, maintenance
and support can be centralized for several MVNOs,
reducing the number of operations staff.

A common platform requires fewer third party

licenses. All upgrades are performed centrally
simplifying software planning and avoiding software
upgrade conflicts.

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Convergence –
the customer in focus
Nobill MVNO is a convergent system capable of
handling convergence in several dimensions:
ff Customers with different contractual
agreements, e.g. prepaid and postpaid
ff Different service types, e.g. voice, SMS, MMS,
data and content
ff Different network types, e.g. mobile GSM,
mobile ANSI, fixed network and IP network
With convergence the customer is in focus; not the
payment method or the system type. This gives
several benefits:
ff Enables categorizing of customer, e.g. by the
margin of revenue, type of services used and
usage level
ff Enables the same service offering indifferent of
payment method
ff Accepts providers and aggregators of content
and Value Added Services, regardless of their
charging strategies
ff Provides cross-product, cross-segment bonuses
and discounting plans for individuals and
family contracts
Hybrid accounts and subscriptions behave as prepaid
for some traffic cases and postpaid for others. Some
examples of how this can be used include:
ff Traffic in home network as prepaid and traffic
when roaming as postpaid
ff Voice, SMS, MMS, premium and data traffic as
postpaid
ff Traffic during work hours as postpaid and
off-work hours as prepaid
Rapid service
creation
The Nobill promotion toolkit, a powerful concept
of events, rules and actions, renders the possibility
to create flexible schemes for innovative service
offerings.
The concept allows the operator to set up innovative
pricing schemes, and loyalty and bonus programs
based on spent money, usage time, data volume and
other services. Examples are:
ff Advanced price plans including rate
depending on usage, refill and service
period
ff Minimum monthly consumption plans
ff Bonus and loyalty schemes
ff Pricing of service requests, e.g. USSD
ff Special cascaded offers for new customers
ff Service bundled with vouchers (e.g. when
using a certain voucher type an extra
bundle of 100 SMS is obtained)
ff 250 free SMS per month
ff Flat rate tariff for monthly fee
ff 1000 SMS (usable on-net and valid 15
days) to subscribers having monthly
consumption > 10 Euros
ff 20 voice minutes to new subscribers
activated during May
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Nobill system architecture

The Nobill system is divided into a number of
functional entities as outlined in the illustration
below.

Nobill integrates with a BSS (Business Support

System) responsible for invoice generation, collection
and similar functions.

NOBILL MVNO

Nobill Front End Nobill Back End

SMSC
Rating BSS
MMSC
Charging
Charging Invoicing
SCP Subscriber services
requests Transactions / Payments
GGSN (incl Customer Care Accumulations
Packet Charger) Dunning
CAI (Customer
Event Charger Admin . Interface) Provisioning/ Scoring
Payments
Voucher s Accounts Receivables
Number Portability
DB B2B accumulation B2B settlement
Provisioning
Voice Mail B2C accumulation B2C settlement
Discounting CRM
IVR Self
Manage- TAP import Logistics
USSD ment

WAP GW

Nobill Client

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NOBILL
DESCRIPTION
MODULES

SMSC Handles SMS and real-time charging of SMS. Prior to granting an SMS submission (or
reception) the Nobill SMS Charger requests permission from Nobill Charging. Real-time
charging is applicable to roaming- and home network users.
MMSC Handles MMS traffic together with real-time charging of MMS. Prior to granting an MMS
submission (or reception) the Nobill MMS Charger requests permission from Nobill
Charging. Real-time charging is applicable to roaming- and home network users.
SCP Handles call control and real-time charging of voice/data/fax/video calls. All traffic is
monitored in real time with refusal of service if e.g. insufficient funds.
GGSN (incl. Handles real-time charging of packet traffic. Prior to granting data traffic the Packet Charger
Packet Charger) requests permission from Nobill Charging. Real-time charging is applicable to roaming- and
home network users.
WAP Gateway Handles all WAP traffic.
Number Portability Number portability gives the service provider the means to use number portability
DB information (network operator ID) for rating and traffic routing.
Voice Mail Flexible and integrated solution for recording and storage of voice messages. Includes
features such as multi-language support, auto provisioning and self management (via USSD,
etc), complete message convergence, e.g. MMS and e-mail voice message delivery.
IVR Handles various subscriber interactions, like top up management and customer self care
with interactive voice responses.
USSD Handles various subscriber interactions, like top up management and customer self
care with interactive text message. The USSD Gateway also acts as a USSD Menu Server,
interacting with external applications.
Event Charger Handles event charging requests from external applications such as content providers and
value-added service platforms.
Charging Receives charging requests and ensures these are rated, reserved and committed.
Rating Responsible for rating all traffic types for all subscription types.
Subscriber services Contains customer, account and subscription data. Great flexibility in creating customer
structures/packages, loyalty bonuses, etc. Includes tools to administrate customer-related
logistics (in batch or individually) for phone numbers and SIM cards.
Vouchers Voucher Management handles creation and management of vouchers, virtual calling cards
and PIN codes. Full voucher lifecycle logistics are supported.
B2B and B2C Responsible for handling billing, i.e. generation of invoicing files. Contains CDR data that is
accumulations kept online for a set period and then archived/exported to other systems.
Outbound and Outbound provisioning is handled towards external systems such as HLR. Inbound
inbound provisioning provisioning is handled via CAI (Customer Administration Interface).
Discounting Accumulation based discounts.
TAP Import Importing and B2C charging of TAP3 roaming files.
Nobill Client The Nobill Client is a graphical user interface (GUI) for configuration and creation
of products and services, rate plans and billing schemes, as well as administration and
management of the system.

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Nobill network interaction

The Nobill system supports industry standard
interfaces for interacting with the surrounding
network.

HLR SGSN MSC

SS7 Gn SS7

Business Support
CAI*
System (BSS)
Operating Support
Systems (OSS)
SNMP NOBILL MVNO SIM provider
Payment Broker
FTP
Etc.

SMPP/ Event
SMTP Charging i/f

Content Delivery
Nobill Client
System

Nobill MVNO solution

External systems

* CAI = Proprietary Customer Administration Interface

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World class usability and
technical support
The Nobill system client is intended to be the primary
way of interaction with the system for both
administrators and customer care personnel. The
Nobill Client is fully configurable with individual
permissions and access rights for different groups of
users. The same client is used to administrate all parts
of the system.
The Nobill system contains comprehensive tracing
facilities on all levels of the SS7 stack. This has proven
to be of significant value when analyzing fault
conditions, etc.
The platform has a log system for all events, errors,
and management; an SNMP interface and capability
to send alarms via e-mail to designated addresses.
All Symsoft products are delivered preinstalled,
preconfigured and tested, reducing time of
installation and integration on-site.
Nobill MVNO has the capability of being accessed
remotely via ISDN or VPN over Internet, providing
an easy-to-use, cost- and time-efficient maintenance,
operation and technical support.
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WHAt we do
Symsoft develops leading and future proof real-time solutions for charging, messaging and IP services, all based
on the Nobill Platform. We focus on creating key convergence building blocks that can be assembled on top of a
generic platform, to give operators a variety of ways to offer cost effective and revenue-generating charging and
messaging services in a competitive world.

OUr E dge

ff Generic platform: a common, open, modular
and IP-based platform for all Nobill
installations, whose architecture allows for
generic use and combination of any resource
ff True convergence: designed from the bottom up
with the customer in focus, to realize true voice
and data convergence for all subscribers
ff 100 % real-time: operator staff, customers and
business partners share the same updated view
of rated traffic since all events in Nobill are
processed in real time
ff Multi-environment support: solutions running
over IMS, converged and hybrid environments
ff Scalability: start small and linearly expand
your Nobill installation at your own pace
ff Extreme performance
ff Proven technology: built on de facto industry
standards Java, Sun Microsystems and Oracle
ff Comprehensive experience and expertise:
proven track record of successful
implementations and know-how in advanced
multi-dimensional converged solutions
ff Best value: shared components, standard-
based interfaces and centralized functions
reduce complexity, development time and
costs

R eferences
Symsoft works closely with leading operators to innovate, develop and deploy competitive services.

Nobill applications are proven, scalable and are in operation all over the world. More than 100 million subscribers
are served by Nobill solutions.

Nobill is undoubtedly one of the most all-encompassing common-platform systems

for telecom operations on the market.

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Make Symsoft your choice!

Symsoft is a specialist in MVNO solutions!

We offer:
ff a world class complete solution for
MVNOs on a common platform
ff integration with current and legacy networks
ff easy expansion with new functionality
ff linear capacity growth
ff real-time fraud control
ff centralized system operation, administration
and maintenance support
ff reduced integration times and efficient
management processes

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Symsoft develops leading real-time telecom solutions for mobile
and convergent operators within the areas of charging, messaging,
call completion and mobile data. Renowned for its ability to deliver,
Symsoft enables operators in an increasingly competitive world to
improve both attractiveness and ARPU. All application solutions are
based on the carrier grade Nobill platform which exceeds operators’
requirements for business critical functions due to its modular platform
architecture and innovative technology. Symsoft’s customers include
leading telecom operators such as Millicom, Polkomtel, Qtel, Saudi
Telecom, Telefonica, Telenor and TeliaSonera. Founded in 1989 and
headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, Symsoft has local presence in
four regions and operational systems in more than 30 countries.

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