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IPTV Billing

2 Day Course
Official Curriculum
Code PWL017

This course has been retired. Please view currently available IPTV Training Courses.

Modules

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Introduction (11 topics)

  • What is IPTV?
  • Managed and Unmanaged IPTV
  • Will IPTV succeed and if so, why
  • Drivers for successful IPTV Providers
  • Free to Air
  • Why should users change?
  • Service and Content
  • Simple purchase process
  • Content restriction
  • Providing what customers want
  • Current Service Offerings

Delivery Technologies (6 topics)

  • ADSL and VDSL (Asymmetric and Symmetric Digital Subscriber Lines)
  • Cable TV Systems
  • Satellite Delivery
  • TDD UMTS (The Time Division Duplex version of UMTS)
  • WiMAX - Broadband Wireless Access
  • Mobile TV

Provisioning and Billing (11 topics)

  • Provisioning and Billing
  • An End to 'One Size Fits All' Programming
  • Basic Services
  • Triple (or More) Play
  • Pay per View
  • Premium Channels
  • Subscriptions
  • Open Programming versus Restricted (Walled Garden)
  • Promotional Billing
  • Time of Day Tariffs
  • Provisioning: Single Interface

IPTV Billing Systems (9 topics)

  • Billing Data Flows
  • Data Sources for Billing
  • Mediation
  • Rating
  • Customer Care
  • Revenue Assurance
  • Fraud Management
  • A Possible Architecture
  • Multiple Accounts per Customer

Usage Detail Records (8 topics)

  • Standards Bodies - Many in the Field Today
  • Billing for IP is still Evolving
  • IPDR - IP Detail Record
  • AMA - Automatic Message Accounting
  • EMR - Exchange Message Record
  • Inputs from the Mobile World:
  • TAP - Transferred Account Procedures and
  • CIBER - Cellular Intercarrier Billing Exchange Roamer

Chargeable Items (10 topics)

  • Service Activation Fee
  • Equipment Rental/Purchase/Maintenance
  • Regular Fixed Charges
  • Individual Event Charges
  • Billing by Time and/or Volume
  • Duration Based Usage Charges
  • Volume Based Usage Charges
  • Impact of Quality of Service (QoS)
  • Home and Away Service Provision
  • Charging for Data Storage

Tariffing Items (5 topics)

  • Volume Discounts
  • Loyalty Discounts
  • Introductory Discounts
  • Charging for Non-online Billing (Bill Rendering)
  • Itemised Bills

Commercial Charges (5 topics)

  • Penalties for Late Payment
  • Disconnection and Reconnection Charges/Incentives
  • Adjustments (Credit or Debit)
  • Charge Waivers
  • Refunds

Impact of Advertising (4 topics)

  • Advertising Income
  • Charge per Advert View
  • Customising Advertising to Consumers
  • Interactive Advertising

Challenges and Opportunities (5 topics)

  • Challenges and Opportunities
  • Managing Customer Expectations
  • Service Provisioning
  • Failures
  • A Strategy for Success

Prerequisites

Delegates should have attended Introduction to IPTV Broadcasting Systems, or have similar skills and experience.

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