IEC: On-Line Education: WPF: Billing in a 3G Environment

1. In the early days of 2G, wireless billing was based on voice minutes using call detail records (CDR).

a. true

b. false

2. Which of the examples below is considered a 2.5G value-added service made available to wireless subscribers in the late 1990s?

a. 2-way messaging

b. e-mail

c. electronic voice-mail

d. none of the above

e. all of the above

3. Convergence is the ability to offer and bill for multiple services such as voice, long distance, and e-mail?

a. true

b. false

4. Wireless carriers' incumbent legacy billing systems could easily support the new 2.5G data-centric services.

a. true

b. false

5. The term flat-rate billing refers to the shortcut of bundling all voice and data services onto a single bill.

a. true

b. false

6. Which of the services below is NOT considered a next-generation, or 3G, service?

a. streaming video

b. wireless voice

c. interactive shopping

d. on-line banking, stock trading, and sports reporting

7. In Europe, next-generation or 3G cellular mobile radio is know as general packet-switched radio service (GPRS)?

a. true

b. false

8. Service providers alone cannot supply all of the services that consumers will require, prompting the need for service providers to offer, not only their own services, but those offered by outside sources.

a. true

b. false

9. Next-generation billing systems must have the ability to price data and content events in addition to voice calls.

a. true

b. false

10. Which of the parameters listed below will need to be incorporated into next-generation billing solutions to calculate new 3G charges?

a. number of packets

b. location

c. quality of service (QoS)

d. none of the above

e. all of the above

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