A note on tariffication strategy cases in telecommunications

  • Authors:

  • Gustav Cepciansky;Ladislav Schwartz

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Telecommunications, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Žilina, Žilina, Slovakia;Department of Telecommunications, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Žilina, Žilina, Slovakia

  • Venue:
  • Netnomics
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The tariff policy of a telecommunication operator has a strategic importance on achieving optimal revenues and a fundamental impact on its position in the competition with other operators on the liberalised telecommunication market. The payment for a connection through a telecommunication network may be determined by a rate for one call unit, by the duration of the call unit and their count during a call. An operator derives the rate and the duration of the call unit from a detailed analysis of large databases that contain statistical data on counts and duration of particular calls depending on the type of call. Usually only the operator knows these data files and keeps them confidential. In this note we show how it is possible to estimate revenues from telecommunication traffic only knowing a set of basic parameters.