Service providers offering prepaid services have been typically characterized by high volumes and low margins until recently. Although there is a continuous growth of demand for prepaid international calling services the margins decline in the opposite direction due to several factors like dropping international rates, increasing demand for new technologies like broadband telephony and fixed mobile substitution. This competitive landscape of prepaid services market fueled:
- Consolidation of service providers into larger service providers to take benefit of the economies of scale on infrastructure and termination rates
- Turning large prepaid service providers into managed services providers addressing hosted solutions for smaller service providers
- Emerge of smaller operators addressing different niches
Common to all these service provider types noted here is the need for diversifying with new applications and markets. Besides, larger operators are primarily looking for ways to scale their platforms to support expansion from organic growth and acquisitions, to migrate services to IP networks to reduce infrastructure and operational costs whereas the primary need of the smaller service providers is operating either on a complete, cost-effective self-owned platform or by using other providers’ hosted service offerings, either of which should enable rapid roll out and adaptation of services in a fast-moving market.
Verscom offers Prepaid Service Providers off-the-shelf prepaid solutions that dramatically reduce the barriers to market entry and help them keep their competitive advantage. Verscom prepaid solution line addresses any type of service provider –large, small, niche, virtual- by any type of prepaid application - IP telephony, prepaid residential, prepaid mobile, and prepaid wholesale- on any network -pure SIP-based carrier networks or large, converged TDM/SIP networks-.
The Verscom solution leverages best-of-breed prepaid application servers and quality/cost based routing platforms that support a rich set of features and are based on standard off-the-shelf computing platforms for cost-effective, scalable and fault-redundant configurations.
Our solutions line for prepaid service providers comprises:
- Class 4 PSTN Emulation
- Calling Cards
- CLASS-5 Broadband Telephony
- Carrier IP Voice Peering
- Interconnect Billing/Routing
- Convergent CRM/Billing
- Service Delivery Platform
