ComfortWay for virtual operators

We announced the Partner Program of the company and now we’ll take a closer look at how ComfortWay improves solutions and business partners. Today's post about integration with mobile and virtual operators and the answer to the question "why?".

So far, we are positioning the ComfortWay platform as a hardware and software complex, where we launched our own service for connecting to different mobile operators based on the Remote SIM provisioning standard, which we have already written about .

At the same time, we can position the company as MVNE - Mobile Virtual Network Enabler and / or MVNA - Mobile Virtual Network Aggregator. Those. in fact, integrate their solutions with the infrastructure of operators in order to make all platform features available to the operator’s subscribers and / or assume the role of infrastructure owner in the integration project. Today we will describe in more detail about the scenario of integration with virtual and mobile operators and values ​​for them.
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For virtual operators

Scenario number 1 The company plans to create a virtual operator

Solved problems:

• provide the company's customers with Internet access services (voice call and sms) in the home region and in roaming.
• create a convergent product, integrating the connection with its main services - financial, for example.

Implementation - ComfortWay leases the platform (conventionally PaaS) or deploys it on the customer’s side. Integration with basic services occurs at the level of development of the offer to the client - a service, bundle, convergent product and technological integration. A partner can also connect the ComfortWay Loyalty Program - a list of Internet services, with the purchase of services to which the client will be credited with remuneration in the form of bonuses for savings on communication and roaming. To start the MVNO partner, besides integration, it is necessary to release a branded SIM card and adapt the ComfortWay application to suit your needs.

The main advantage of MVNO c ComfortWay - the owner of a virtual network does not build it on the infrastructure of a single mobile operator, but can dynamically connect subscribers to the services of several local operators and dozens of global ones.

It is a little about trends in the direction of development of virtual operators. The post office in Italy, Spain has long been virtual operators, Sberbank and the social network VKontakte announced the creation of virtual operators this fall. According to the same scenario, a large company can create MVNO for itself - just recently Domodedovo Airport did it.

Scenario number 2 Company Full MVNO

Technological integration is the integration of software and hardware platforms of partners and the installation of a virtual operator java applet on a SIM card. The company has developed an API and the integration and launch of a new service will be held for the operator “seamlessly”. We can also implement integration via RADIUS. As a result of the integration, the virtual operator will be able to provide all the ComfortWay tariff-free tariffs to its subscribers.

If we talk about launch dates, the implementation of both scenarios will take up to two months. Currently, we have launched pilot projects for all scenarios and by the end of the year we will publish cases on them.

For mobile operators

We are only forming proposals for the most important category of partners for us and today we see several interesting scenarios of such a partnership. After integration with us, the mobile operator will be able to:

• sell your services in our “fare store” / ComfortWay app ;
• apply an alternative to the roaming model of providing services outside the home region;
• to issue a SIM-card for entering tourists, which will be his main one on all trips.

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