Roaming Real Time- All That You Wanted to Know

In recent times, the telecom sector all over the world has become more and more concerned about the roaming fraud that the operators are facing on a large scale. Perhaps, roaming fraud is one of the growing concerns among the operators. That’s because roaming fraud has cost heavily on many mobile network operators and service providers, thus it has now become a global concern. Preventing the huge revenue losses and combating with the fraudulent roaming subscribers is not easy and thus it has become one of the most important discussed topics in the telecom industries around the world. The GSMA community thus worked out the best possible solution to keep a check on the roaming frauds. The solution has been named NRTRDE or Near Real Time Roaming Data Exchange.  

From October 1st, 2008, The GSMA community implemented the system and made it a mandatory system for all the GSMA community members so as to protect them from the frauds. There were many operators who implemented the Near Real Time Roaming Data Exchange before October 2008 through bilateral agreements to protect themselves from fraudulence.

After the implementation of NRTRDE, many companies have come up with solutions that would help the operators to monitor the data exchanges of the roaming frauds. These companies provide solutions for roaming real time that reduces the risk of mobile roaming frauds while protecting the operators networking system and investments. The operators would be provided with roaming reporting if there is any kind of serious crisis. 

The solution indirectly enables the operators to safeguard their own services used by the consumers or patrons and make the environment of the roaming subscribers safer. The solution is an innovative, cost effective and robust platform of Near Real Time Roaming Data Exchange that allows the operators to access the critical information that is required to fight the roaming frauds. Some of the other benefits include:

·        Reducing reporting time of any sort of scam related information.

·        Providing call forwarding detail reports.

·        Guaranteeing a simple and easy solution for the operators.

The other benefits include:

·        Data Mediation

·        Service level agreements

·        Error reporting

·        Activity and traffic reports

·        Support for every call record 

The NRTRDE not only helps the operators to protect their services from the roaming frauds internationally but they also help them stop the increasing revenue loss and make a strong and satisfied consumer base.