How The Broadband of the Future will be billed

摘要

A key driver of more flexible consumer broadband services is more flexible and powerful service provider billing, charging and pricing applications. It's no secret that most broadband plans today are flat-rate, all-you-can- eat - often with some fine print about usage caps that rarely come into play (or cause customer havoc when they do). In large part it's that one-size-fits-all approach to billing and charging that is at the center of many of the problems facing carrier broadband delivery today.