Connect-World Magazine - Connect-World Latin America (2014)

In this issue

Inter-network Policy is key to monetizing networked services. Traditionally, policy and charging have been considered as internal decisions… No longer. Policy servers must interact to provide end-to-end consistent delivery. Then, end-to-end charging and cross-charging can be facilitated. The future is collaboration and revenue-sharing, but this is difficult to achieve.

Mobile Money is coming of age and is spreading in the developed world, but its greatest impact is in the developing regions. This requires collaboration of several sectors - Banking, Telecom, Commerce, and Government. Once the framework is in, the sky is the limit! Can on-the-fly SLAs help grow it, enable small suppliers getting in?

SDN opens the door for 3rd parties’ services at every layer - that must be accompanied by appropriate compensation for participating parties. However, users’ charging should not be fragmented. How can this be achieved? One-stop-shop for charging, perhaps by hosted generic charging service is one idea…

Lack of inter-network agreements inhibits growth of ecosystem-based services, but numerous ad-hoc agreements cannot be manually negotiated. Perhaps SLA (Service Level Agreements) for network delivery should be negotiated on the fly, just like SLAs between App Stores and their developers.