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Syniverse BorderRoaming SolutionSyniverse Border RoamingSolution provides acomplete tracking andcontrol capability forroaming subscribers in zeroroaming zones and regions.The Business Challenge:A developing trend in the mobile communications industry is the reduction, or evenelimination, of roaming fees across land borders, whether domestic or international.Mobile network operators (MNOs) require solutions to help them identify andcontrol this traffic to ensure continuing revenue and margin management as well ascompliance with regulatory requirements.The Solution:Even when roaming tariffs are reduced or eliminated MNOs still need to be able tomanage inbound traffic on their network and allocate costs accordingly, as well asensure that appropriate rating and pricing is applied for outbound roaming.Syniverse Border Roaming Solution delivers the following:• Business intelligence for MNOs – reporting roaming traffic by region and zone.This is based on location information within the TAP files.• Wholesale rerating service – ensures that calls in the relevant visited zone arecharged a preferential IOT.• Retail billing controls, using re-pricing, and optionally file split (if roaming callsare put in separate TAP files).• Application of re-pricing to the relevant outbound roaming calls to ensure thatdomestic tariffs are always applied.BenefitsSyniverse Border Roaming Solution provides revenue assurance and control forMNOs in those regions that are affected by regulator-imposed roaming fee reductionor elimination:• Continuing revenue assurance - make sure that inbound roaming costs areallocated correctly• Full compliance with any regulatory requirements to control or eliminateroaming fees, including the ability to provide records for audit• Application of location-dependent IOT to ensure wholesale cost of inboundroamer calls do not incur excessive roaming charges in the zero roam zones• A seamless subscriber experience ensures that even when subscribers are“roaming” in a zero roaming fee zone, there is service continuity and domestictariffs can be applied

About SyniverseSyniverse makes mobile work formore than 900 mobile operators,cable and Internet providers,and enterprises in over 160countries. With unmatchedexpertise and over 25 yearssimplifying the complexitiesof roaming, messaging andnetworking, Syniverse servesas the force at the center ofthe mobile communicationsuniverse, keeping peopleconnected today and forgingnew connections for tomorrow.Nobody knows mobile likeSyniverse.Border Roaming SolutionIdentify inbound and outbound roamers and take appropriate policy actions:• Advanced wholesale and retail rerating options ensure price transparency• Location-based rating and reporting to CDR level• Possibility to exclude certain destinations and premium rate numbers• Flexibility to apply zero roaming to specific subscriber groups• Manage margins and allocate costs accuratelyFeaturesSyniverse Border Roaming Solution comprises proven products from our roaming andbusiness intelligence portfolio to provide a complete tracking and control capabilityfor roaming subscribers in zero roaming zones and regions:• Business intelligence to identify visitors to your network and the zones theyare roaming in• Wholesale rerating to ensure preferential IOTs are applied for visitors to yournetwork• Re-pricing options ensure that domestic tariffs are applied for your subscribersvisiting another nondomestic network© 2013 Syniverse Technologies, LLC. All rights reserved under U.S. and international copyright laws. Rev. 6-13