Enhancing business partnerships with the B2B gateway
Pekka Valitalo, Tim Wartmann · 2009
Business-to-business (B2B) partnerships bring a need for a B2B platform as a middle-ground solution that enables the information exchange and interaction between operators' and business partners' applications. The article discusses the market need for communication between partners' applications, classes of exchanged information and topics connected with revenue management, customer-centric and telco-centric business models, and the B2B gateway concept in the mobile virtual network enabler (MVNE) - mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) business case. The classes of information exchanged and managed by the discussed B2B gateway concept includes service usage data, profile management, provisioning, electronic bill presentment and payment (EBPP), data and system security, as well as charging and AAA.