A METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OUTBOUND/INBOUND ROAMING MARKET SHARE ESTIMATION

摘要

A method for outbound/inbound roaming market share estimation comprises estimation of the distribution of outbound roamers (300; 400) of a home mobile communication network (H) over visited mobile communication networks (A1, A2, A3, B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, B6) in one or more geographical area (A, B, C) as follows: a. maintaining frequent roamer information (RS1, RS2, RS3, ...) for subscribers (S1, S2, S3, ...) of the home mobile communication network (H); b. generating a sample set of frequent outbound roamers of the home mobile communication network (H); c. polling each mobile subscriber in the sample set with a location request; d. analysing replies to the location request to determine geographical areas and visited mobile communication networks therefrom; and e. determining a relative distribution (300) of outbound roamers of the home mobile communication network (H) across geographical areas (A, B, C) and/or visited mobile communication networks (A1, A2, A3, B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, B6).