MACH Roaming Margin Analysis Solution Helps Operators Optimise Their Roaming Business

LUXEMBOURG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MACH, the leading provider of hub-based mobile communication solutions, has today announced the launch of the industry’s first automated solution that allows mobile operators to quickly compare their wholesale roaming inter-operator tariffs (IOTs) with interconnect termination rates. The MACH Roaming Margin Analysis (RMA) solution gives operators a clear picture of the true wholesale margins they are making on international roaming, enabling them to optimise their volume commitments and hence, their roaming business operations.

Without a timely means of comparing interconnect termination rates to IOTs, operators potentially risk losing money on their roaming business. Roaming margin analysis ensures that operators can quickly align IOTs with interconnect termination fees. It allows them to secure an accurate view of their wholesale roaming margins across all destinations, without the need for time-consuming manual calculations or the requirement to try to reconcile disparate data sources.

Artur Michalczyk, Chief Product Officer at MACH, commented: “Understanding the wholesale margins they are generating on roaming is essential for operators to optimise their business operations. Traditionally, however, this was either impossible, or the manual approach required to obtain, analyse and action this information would take several weeks to complete, during which time operators run the risk of losing money on their roaming margins. Our Roaming Margin Analysis solution, launched as part of our industry-leading Wholesale Service Bureau, provides accurate and actionable output in minutes, delivering both time and cost savings for operators and allowing them to optimise their roaming business immediately.”

In addition, MACH’s RMA solution benefits operators by helping them to better understand margins on outbound retail roaming tariffs, thereby assisting in the development of re-pricing strategies for outbound roaming tariffs. The solution can also be used by operators as a wholesale revenue assurance audit tool, providing a reporting capability that can be used to understand both margin and revenue discrepancies on particular interconnection routes.

Michalczyk concluded: “According to MACH’s own statistics, a growing number of mobile operators are managing their roaming and interconnect functions as one wholesale function. Indeed, we are seeing a growing alignment and integration of interconnect billing and roaming processes, which is likely to increase with more focus on wholesale margin management in the future.”

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About the MACH Wholesale Service Bureau

MACH’s Wholesale Service Bureau (WSB) supports a state-of-the-art interconnect billing solution, enabling operators to control and improve the operational efficiency of their interconnect businesses by improving the quality of the rating, by reducing revenue leakage, and by speeding up the adoption of new rating scenarios. As a managed service it eliminates the need for CAPEX investment and assures revenue by implementing tools like Optimal Routing and Trading functionalities. The WSB acts as a dedicated service unit for each client, providing complete system management, reference data input tasks and all error CDR investigations and corrections.

About MACH

MACH connects and monetizes the telecom world. It provides its 650 operator customers with roaming, interconnect, messaging, and direct billing solutions, all integrated with its $10bn / year operator settlement capability. It is the largest provider of data and financial clearing solutions for wireless roaming and operates the globe’s largest and fastest growing open connectivity roaming hub, Link2One. It inserts the operator in the content and application value chain and serves the reseller and wholesaler community with its A2P messaging solutions. Headquartered in Luxembourg, MACH has offices in 12 countries and employs more than 1,000 people worldwide. Its customers include Orange, Telefonica, T-Mobile, Telus, Verizon Wireless and Microsoft, as well as enterprise messaging customers like KLM. For more information, visit www.mach.com.