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CDG INTERNATIONAL ROAMING TEAM

Prepaid Roaming Webinar February 2012

Welcome by BWG Co-Chairs Tue Hermansen, Mach Gerrit Jan Konijnenberg, Vodafone

Agenda

• Introductions – About CDG IRT

– MACH Introduction

– Vodafone Introduction

• Presentations – Sprint, USA

– Visafone, Nigeria

– MTS, India

History of the International Roaming Team (IRT)

• 1998 the CDG initiated a technical team focused on Roaming – Original group: Hutchison Hong Kong, KDDI, Telecom New Zealand and SK Telecom

– Roughly 10 members met 2 times a year face to face

– First document created: Doc #44 CDMA International Roaming Agreement Template

• Organized into a formal structure in 2002 – Formalized and focused group charter on International Roaming with face to face

meetings

• Current organization formed in 2004 – Average 80-100 participants

– 43 published documents

– Meets face to face 2 times a year with conference calls in between

The purpose of the IRT

• Our purpose is to provide a forum and structure for the industry to improve roaming for CDMA carriers and subscribers by: – increasing CDMA roaming coverage for all services – Reducing complexity and time of deployment – Improving the reliability and richness of the subscriber experience

• CDMA is a flexible technology with implementation variances

– When roaming was added into a carrier’s product line, many found CDMA roaming to be challenging

• The only place where CDMA carriers/vendors/OEMs meet to discuss CDMA international roaming

Agenda

• Introductions – About CDG IRT

– MACH Introduction

– Vodafone Introduction

• Presentations – Sprint, USA

– Visafone, Nigeria

– MTS, India

MACH

Tue From Hermansen Director Product Management NextGen Solutions Mob: +352 691 756 657 E-mail: tfh@mach.com

CDMA Subscriber growth 2001 - 2015

Globally 80% of all new mobile subscribers are prepaid

Credit control for subscribers prevents bill-shock concerns

Exciting new Voice, SMS and Data bundles used to win subscribers

Operators must implement Policy control and Enforcement for inbound and outbound traffic

CDMA operators have great opportunity to win traffic if operational challenges are overcome

Agenda

• Introductions – About CDG IRT

– MACH Introduction

– Vodafone Introduction

• Presentations – Sprint, USA

– Visafone, Nigeria

– MTS, India

Vodafone

Gerrit Jan Konijnenberg SVP Interstandard Roaming VF gerritjan.konijnenberg@vodafone.com 00352691578919

Some Vodafone Prepaid Experiences • Typically between 25-40% of VF roamers are prepay

• Largely varies by market: example, VF IT’s domestic base is 90%+ prepay therefore

they represent much higher proportion of roamers.

• Prepay roaming generally have lower roaming ARPU’s than post-pay and more seasonal (i.e. most travel during summer).

• About 20% of the VF consumer roaming income = prepaid

• We have evidence to suggest that around 30% of prepay customers run out of credit when they roam!

• Prepay roaming is an important source of income for Vodafone

• Several projects to further stimulate and facilitate prepaid roaming are being executed

Agenda

• Introductions – About CDG IRT

– MACH Introduction

– Vodafone Introduction

• Presentations – Sprint, USA

– Visafone, Nigeria

– MTS, India

David Weixelman Ericsson Wireless Network Roaming 913-706-0151 - Mobile david.weixelman@ericsson.com

SPRINT

IS 826 Inbound Roaming

Sprint Implementations

• North American Implementations

– Two in the US

– One in Canada

– Third US carrier is in process

Commercial Challenges

• Trigger List must contain PC-SSN and no GTA-TT. If GTA-TT, Sprint will not honor it and call processing fails.

• For the Connect Resource message, which performs redirect to a new number or announcement, the reply must contain digits that can be dialed on the PSTN.

• Review of the triggers that are planned to be used, (e.g. OAA , T Answer, T disconnect, No Answer List). Sprint has very limited announcements for mapping to WIN and cannot support all IS41D Standard Announcements

Technical Challenges

• Technical Challenges (Sprint vendor specific issues) – Qual Dir’s were stripping the WIN triggers in Sprint’s Lucent

MSC’s – Certain announcements were not supported by Sprint due to

translations conflicts. – Sprint does have to build a ‘G’ link in its Lucent MSC’s for the

IS826 SCP point code – ISCP was removing the leading 1 from Analyzed Digits causing

Sprint’s Nortel MSC’s to block calls. – Usually IS826 are deployed first on the home network in which

they use short codes to redirect callers to customer care, etc.. When implementing on Sprint we found problems with the call redirecting using their short codes and had to develop special translations to convert short codes to dialable numbers, Toll Free etc..

Agenda

• Introductions – About CDG IRT

– MACH Introduction

– Vodafone Introduction

• Presentations – Sprint, USA

– Visafone, Nigeria

– MTS, India

Toyin Adebola Billing and Roaming Manager Visafone communications Limited Victoria Island Lagos M/L:+2347025002208

TECHNICAL CHALLENGES

1. IPSEC VPN TUNNEL ISSUES (SCTP ISSUES WITH ASA5540 IPSEC TUNNEL)CISCO IOS ROUTER WAS USED INSTEAD 2. CHARGING BASED ON ROAMING LOCATION(LOCATION BASED CHARGING) 3. USSD REQUESTS FOR BALANCE CHECK,RECHARGE AND CREDIT TRANSFER 4. INABILITY OF ROAMING SUBSCRIBERS TO RECEIVE CALLS FROM THE ROAMING COUNTRY WHICH WAS TRACED TO VOIP SYSTEM BEING USED. 5. SUBSCRIBER ROAMING IN A COUNTRY WHERE THE MSISDN IS MORE THAN 10 DIGITS

Agenda

• Introductions – About CDG IRT

– MACH Introduction

– Vodafone Introduction

• Presentations – Sprint, USA

– Visafone, Nigeria

– MTS, India

Renu Rathore Head, Roaming & Interconnect Division MTS India ,Gurgaon MTS +91 913 600 1099 Direct +91 124 481 2799 Email: Renu.Rathore@mtsindia.in

a step ahead

SSTL Promoters

SSTL – A Venture Involving Equity Participation By Sistema

(LSE:SSA) a Fortune 500 company , Russian Federation and

the Shyam Group

• Sistema (LSE : SSA)

– Largest public diversified corporation in Russia and CIS countries

– Manages fast growing companies operating in the consumer

services sector and has over 100 million customers

• Shyam Group

– Has diversified interests in telecom, manufacturing, services and

fertilizers

– Essel Shyam Communications Ltd, a joint venture between Essel

and Shyam group, is a pan-India VSAT service company

SSTL Ownership

• Sistema enters Indian market

with 73.7% stake in Shyam

• First Private investment

Russian company to come

to India

• Launched wireless services

under “Rainbow” brand

• Rebranded to “MTS”

• Launched 10 more circles

• Fastest high-speed data

network roll-out

• Continue roll-out in key circles;

operations in 20 circles

• Russian Federation picks up

stake in SSTL

• HSD network presence in over

200 cities

• Pan-India commercial

operations

• Top-3 player in high-

speed data business

Others

56.68%

Russian

Federation

2.18% 17.14% 24.00%

2008 2009 2010-11 2012

A Venture Involving Equity Participation By Sistema (LSE:SSA) ,

Russian Federation and the Shyam Group

• 10 of Top 10 cities

• 19 of Top 20 cities

• 86 of Top 100 cities

Punjab

Uttaranchal

Himachal Pradesh

Uttar

Pradesh (12)

Madhya Pradesh

Rajasthan

Delhi

Haryana

Chandigarh

Jammu

and Kashmir

Bihar

Meghalaya

Sikkim

Tripura

Manipur

Mizoram

Assam

Arunachal Pradesh

Nagaland

Tamil Nadu

Andhra

Pradesh

Orissa

West Bengal

Karnataka

Goa

Maharashtra

Kerala

Dadra & Nagar

Haveli

Gujarat

Daman &

Diu

Pondicherry

Jharkhand

Kolkata

Mumbai

(30)

(34)

(21)

(1)

(5)

(1)

(21)

(14)

(15)

(18)

(7)

(17)

(7)

More than 300

cities across

India

Source: MTS strategy team

MTS A Leader In Wireless High-speed Data Services

1 Million Customers – In More Than 200 Cities

: Launched high speed mobile

broadband service, MBlaze in Nov ’09

: Now available in more than 200 cities

across the country

: Captures 82% of total national Market

potential

: 26% net additions share of HSD

subs in Q1’2011

: MTS TV launched for MBlaze

customers

: MTS TV with more than 100 live and

Video on demand channels

: Pan India roaming available

: Recharging even with Zero Balance

through MTS website (www.mtsindia.in)

About

MBlaze

Live TV

MBlaze

Advantage

Some Firsts Of MTS India

• First telecom company in India to launch Prepaid Mobile Broadband Services under the MBlaze brand

• First company to introduce recharge option even on Zero Balance using MBlaze

• First company to launch Hi-speed mobile broadband services in Jharkhand

• First company to give One Million free minutes as talk time to its customers in India

• First company to launch half paise / second for a life time (even for calls made to competing network)

• First company to offer Smartphone for FREE in India (MTS Pulse)

• First company in the world to launch CDMA EV-DO Rev.B Phase II network in Jaipur

• First company to launch High Speed Data services on a National Highway in India (265 Km long Delhi – Jaipur stretch)

• First company to launch High Speed Data services on a National Highway in Southern India (350 Km long Chennai – Bengaluru stretch)

• First company in India to launch Android powered Smartphones in the below Rs. 5000 category – MTS Livewire & MTS MTag 3.1

MTS Pulse

Prepaid Roaming CDMA To GSM Networks

MTS launched international roaming services for its pre-paid subscribers, enabling them to roam across 433 GSM networks in 231 countries. MTS customers will be able to avail services in countries like the United States of America, Canada, Brazil, Chile, UK, France, Germany, China, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Australia and New-Zealand, among others. The company has also launched a dual mode SIM card which would work both on GSM handsets while abroad and on CDMA handsets while in India.

MTS also became the first company to launch Prepaid Data Roaming in the country .

MTS also intends to be the first company to launch the World Dongle in the country .

QUESTIONS?

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