The Local Roaming Number solution provides frequent international travelers with a local phone number in the country they are visiting. This allows travelers to receive calls at a local number and make local calls at preferential rates, while still keeping their home phone number active. The solution can be implemented through home-based charging, which preserves roaming revenue for both networks, or local prepaid charging, which gives visited networks tariff flexibility. It provides benefits to both home and visited networks by increasing traffic and revenues, and benefits travelers by giving them a local presence without needing multiple SIM cards or phones.

1. Local Roaming
Number™ Solution
Provides frequent roamers with a local number that is Benefits of
preferentially priced for local use, in addition to their Starhome’s Solution
home number on the same handset. Visited Operator Benefits
• Attracts inbound
roamers to the network
Current Situation geared to different operator strategies
with a unique service and
Frequent travelers often bypass roaming and diverse user experiences. flexible tariffs
tariffs for dialing and receiving “local” • Preserves or increases
calls in the visited network by Home-Based Charging roaming revenue for
purchasing a local SIM card. These • Completely seamless mobile originated (MO)
veteran travelers replace their home • Uses existing roaming agreements calls
SIM, switch back-and-forth, use two • Preserves roaming revenues for the • Encourages more local
handsets, or limit usage of their mobile home public mobile network (HPMN) network traffic
phones. These solutions are and for the visited public mobile net • Competitive advantage to
cumbersome for the users and reduce work (VPMN) attract roamers
roaming calls and VAS for the visited
and home networks. Local Prepaid Charging
Home Operator Benefits
• The solution uses existing operator
• Keeps HPMN SIM active,
Starhome’s Solution prepaid facilities (for example,
with no loss of revenue
Starhome’s® Local Roaming Number™ scratch-card and top-up mechanisms)
(MT calls, SMS, GPRS,
solution is more than a service: it is a • VPMN enjoys tariff flexibility MMS, etc.)
concept that provides roamers with a • Service activation is manual and • Retains revenue from
local presence without an additional SIM requires a top-up account valued added services
or two handsets. (VAS), which subscribers
Roamer Benefits continue to enjoy
Inbound roamers, upon registering in • Roamers can receive, as well as
the operator’s network, are generate, calls on both the original
dynamically allocated a local MSISDN homenumber and on the new local
number that is associated with the number
roamer’s handset while roaming in the • Consistent user experience and the
network. Users can be notified via a ability to use one updated phonebook
seamless SMS notification, in their own on one familiar handset
language, with message content based • Seamless operation
on roamer segmentation. • Business users enjoy “local presence”
(local number)
Implementation Modes • Travelers benefit from optimized
Implementation can be home-based, or routing between colleagues or family
based on local prepaid charging. Both • Preferred tariffs according to operator
modes offer the same local roaming strategy
number functionality, but they are • Eliminates need to buy local prepaid SIM

2. Local Roaming Number ™ Solution
Visited Network Home Network
MSISDN#1
Key Features
• Enhanced 3GPP Gateway
Location Register platform
• Telco-Grade platform with
real-time and high capacity
support
• Geographically
GMSC distributed architecture
Traveler MSC
• Monitors and identifies
gaps in the coverage of your
MSISDN#2
inbound roamers
• Enhanced:
▪ Management tools
Inbound Solution Architecture ▪ Statistics
▪ Forecast algorithms
Simple, fast implementation means operators can begin
generating revenues and attracting roamers almost
immediately. This live, field-tested and deployed service
comes with comprehensive post-sales support and guidance
Starhome roaming requirements and target three
Starhome® is a field proven leader in distinct areas of activity at the mobile
roaming whose cumulative knowledge and operator: Retail - Starhome offers seamless
expertise has made it the roaming partner solutions to stimulate and increase
of choice for mobile operators. Since its roaming traffic and usability. Wholesale
establishment in 1999, Starhome manages - our powerful solutions enable teams
and maintains over 900 roaming solutions to meet their wholesale targets and IOT
for over 178 mobile operators in 118 discount agreements. Operation - our
countries worldwide. mission-critical solutions optimize network
Starhome’s solutions address all key efficiency and reduce cost of ownership.
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