LTE Pricing Strategies

Usama Mir (1) , Loutfi Nuaymi (2, 1)

1 RSM - Département Réseaux, Sécurité et Multimédia
2 REOP - Réseaux d'opérateurs

Pricing plays an important role to efficiently manage the cellular network resources, maintain user required QoS (Quality of Service) levels and to optimize operator's revenue. In this paper, we analyze some previous pricing schemes proposed for general wireless multimedia systems of WiMAX and adapt these methods within LTE (Long Term Evolution) networks. We also propose a dynamic pricing strategy for LTE. Most of these methods (including ours) are based on users' price categories: Gold (or high), Silver (or medium) and Bronze (or low) categories. The price charged to these users may also vary with the QoS level. We compare these methods considering the LTE network context.

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Usama Mir, Loutfi Nuaymi. LTE Pricing Strategies. VTC Spring 2013 : IEEE 77th Vehicular Technology Conference, Jun 2013, Dresde, Germany. pp.1-6, ⟨10.1109/VTCSpring.2013.6692625⟩. ⟨hal-00949529⟩