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Quickly Establish Connections with Operators Around the World
Bilateral roaming relationships have long been recognized as an industry standard. But a changing environment means that establishing and expanding roaming services and coverage is becoming increasingly complex. The cost of managing large numbers of bilateral relationships is high. As well, to be competitive, new operators are required to come to market with maximum roaming coverage for not only Voice Services, but also for new services such as Camel, GPRS and 3G which require a substantial investment. Even established operators are experiencing a low and slow return on investment for new 2.5G/3G relationships. This problem will be magnified with the growth of 3GSM, the exponential growth in new services and technologies, and the arrival of 4th/5th networks in some regions.
Link2One offers you a simple solution: with just one agreement and one connection you’ll have coverage around the world. With a few simple network and billing configurations you’ll be up and running on our Single IMSI Roaming Hub, with the same service level and capabilities as in traditional bilateral roaming agreements.
With Link2One, your revenue will increase as your operating costs decrease. We will bring you both large and small remote networks so you can your provide your customers with a virtually seamless roaming experience. At the same time, with no need for separate agreements or to organize and maintain bi-lateral testing, you’ll save time and money. Plus, you can keep your most profitable relationships outside the hub.
Launch New Products and Connect to New Operators Faster
New operators join the Link2One hub monthly, enabling you to profit from additional traffic and offer your customers wider coverage. You will also be able to get your new products to market faster and profit from the services offered by other operators.
Get Immediate Access to Technologies and Services
With Link2One, you’ll have immediate access to all GSM roaming technologies, including 3G, CAMEL and GPRS. Plus, we support services such as sms and mms.
Virtually Eliminate Testing
You’ll test once when you connect with the Link2One hub, then all additional connections are tested automatically. We handle SIM card management as well for 2 GPRS/3G and one prepaid CAMEL. IREG, TADIG, maintenance and upgrade testing is done within the hub. SIM and IMSI remain unique and unchanged.
Simplify Clearing and Settlement
With our data clearing services, the exchange of data is done in a secure and timely manner. All data is validated and then converted to and from any known TAP format defined by you. Clients simply send raw CDRs and we’ll manage all of the tasks involved in the roaming process. We also support the creation of TAP files from raw CDRs and the sending of scheduling transmissions to roaming partners.
Link2One also provides you with a single financial clearing and settlement pool with integrated payments. A powerful web interface allows you to monitor your financial settlement, invoices, debt process and positions in real-time. Our automated reconciliation ensures that you settle as quickly and accurately as possible. By simplifying your payment process, we reduce your administrative costs.
Benefit from Our Roaming Services Portfolio
Our roaming services portfolio includes Roaming Agreement Electronic Exchange and business intelligence.
Roaming Agreement Electronic Exchange
We manage your own roaming agreements as well as those of your partners. We provide advanced reporting and integration. As well, we support RAEX AA.14 per GSMA specifications.
Business Intelligence
Link2One offers one reporting interface that integrates data from our clearing services. This gives you a powerful tool that you can use to generate standard or custom reports.
Reduce Investment in New and Unproven Technologies
Why invest in connections to WiMAX providers without a trial? And why invest in WiMAX if you’re unsure it will be a sustainable technology? You can run a pilot trial through the hub and see how it works with 40 or 50 WiMAX providers first. You’ll get faster settlement without the risks.
Maintain Bilateral IOT Negotiation and Steering
You keep control as you can run your IOT and traffic steering as before. The IOT is transparent and is the standard offered by each roaming partner. There is no hub mark-up.
Increase Coverage Around the World
By October the number of operators in the hub will increase to 15, and by December we expect to have approximately 40 networks live on the platform. Our projection for December 2009 is to have 180 networks live. When you join Link2One, you can connect immediately to new operators worldwide or move existing traffic (for example to enhance 3G coverage).
Benefit from Our Cost-Effective Pricing Model
Link2One charges a one-time connection fee. There is also a fixed monthly fee and a service charge based on the level of roaming traffic coming through the hub. This charge is not connected in any way with the IOT charged by the visited network.
Use Our Experience to Build Your Business
The founders of Link2One are industry veterans who have a comprehensive understanding of what you need to run your business more profitably and efficiently. They created L2O to make it easy for you to provide your customers with the largest worldwide GSM coverage. And they are committed to turning L2O into a partner you can trust to provide forward-thinking connectivity solutions for existing and emerging technologies.
Connect with Confidence
In July 2008 Link2One conducted a trial of its open connectivity service with 40 potential clients. They agreed to open their networks to real roamers for a period of two weeks. During this period their customers made calls on participating networks. In addition, Link2One ran a schedule of IREG and TADIG tests to ensure that connectivity and billing could take place. No hub issues were encountered, and the few problems that were identified took place within local networks. The hub concept was proven – all networks were able to exchange data. After the trial, we successfully conducted one additional test, and now these networks are in the process of being connected to the Link2One service.
Why Link2One?
Increase Coverage Now
- Realize more revenue
- Save time and money
- Cut time-to-market
- We bring large networks to smaller operators
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