Customised billing for location-based services

Abstract

As the new communications era aims to provide mobile users with advanced and customised services, it becomes apparent that the requirement for intelligent charging and customised billing of service access emerges bravely. In that scope, the enrichment of mobile services with attributes related to user profiles, context, location, presence and other elements providing customization, affects also the charging process. In particular, the charging and billing for service access have to be more flexible and personalised, so that especial, customised billing for new location-based services and applications is enabled. Hence, charging information related to the user profile and preferences as well as the user location will also have to be encountered at the billing process. This paper presents an integrated architecture, which allows flexible charging and customised billing for the usage of location-based services. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2005.