Starhome Unveils Roaming Admin Tool

Starhome, which provides roaming services and converged solutions, has launched Tariff & Admin Control, which aims to provide operators with a one-stop shop for managing and optimising their roaming services. International routing and roaming inefficiencies have resulted in higher administrative costs for operators for a long time, says Starhome. The Tariff & Admin tool allows the department that is responsible for roaming to easily maintain, manage and publish all roaming agreements, tariffs and technical information within the organisation and support the RAEX (roaming information exchange) standard seamlessly.
Although operators have reconciled routing inefficiencies in the past, todays pressures on roaming tariffs are causing them to re-examine and adopt optimisation strategies. Tariff & Admin Control aids operators by providing artificial intelligence tools which allow the operator to calculate, negotiate and create new services based on constant information, which can then be actively managed by either the operator, or by Starhome as part of its outsourcing service.   
The Tariff & Admin tool is comprised of three modules. The Roaming Information Database is an essential tool for RAEX administration, providing the operator with one source that contains all its roaming partners information and exchanging inter-operator information according to the GSMA RAEX standard. The second module is the Roaming Tariff Calculator, which allows the roaming manager to create and easily modify different roaming tariffs for its end user customers. The final module is the Inter-Operator Tariffs (IOT) Negotiation Tool. This presents a balance report per operator online, that simulates and supports the tariff negotiation process, and enables the roaming manager to influence discounts.
The roaming business has become very complex, and end-user tariffs are no longer as simple as they were in the past, says Orly Nesher, VP Marketing at Starhome. There are many issues that the operator must take into consideration when calculating end-user prices, such as European regulation and different technologies like roaming data services. Tariff reduction means they now have to create and provide different pricing modules and services that support lower prices. Using Starhomes Tariff & Admin solution, operators now have a quick and easy way of calculating the roaming costs for end-users.