3. Billing
Invoicing for IMS services is the result of a series of operations carried out via a complex invoicing architecture that enables both the user's account to be debited during a call or after resources have been used, and fine-tuned invoicing according to the resources and services actually used.
3.1 General billing principles
Service billing is based on a series of processes, from the collection of billing information from network nodes to customer payment, as illustrated in figure 28 .
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Accounting: procedure for tracing information relating to an event to be billed, such as the use of the operator's network resources, the services...
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Standards and norms
- IP Multimedia Core Network Subsystem (IMS) Multimedia Telephony Service and supplementary services ; Stage 1 - 3GPP TS 22.173 -
- IP Multimedia System (IMS) messaging ; Stage 1 - 3GPP TS 22.340 -
- Network architecture - 3GPP TS 23.002 -
- Organization of subscriber data - 3GPP TS 23.008 -
- General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) ; Service description - 3GPP TS 23.060 -
- Presence service...
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