ChargingCharacteristics

Validations ASN.1 Parent Types

The Charging Characteristics indicate the charging policy (normal, prepaid, flatrate, hot billing) to the HPMN and thus allow the HPMN to optimise call record processing. It is a customer care parameter intended for use by the HPMN and it is copied from the HLR information.  

Derivation:

From the GSM item ChargingCharacteristics as defined in TS GSM 12.15.

Conditionality

Mandatory within group GPRS Chargeable Subscriber when available from the network

Values:

The Charging Characteristics are encoded within a single octet. The range of values is defined within TS GSM 03.60 and TS GSM 12.15 as follows:

Description for the bits of the flag set:

Bit 1: H (Hot billing)            := ‘00000001’B

Bit 2: F (Flat rate)       := ‘00000010’B

Bit 3: P (Prepaid service) := ‘00000100’B

Bit 4: N (Normal billing)  := ‘00001000’B

Bit 5: - (Reserved, set to 0)     := ‘00010000’B

Bit 6: - (Reserved, set to 0)     := ‘00100000’B

Bit 7: - (Reserved, set to 0)     := ‘01000000’B

Bit 8: - (Reserved, set to 0)     := ‘10000000’B

 

ChargingCharacteristics ::= [APPLICATION 263] OCTET STRING --(SIZE(1))

Parent Types

GprsChargeableSubscriber
Text extracted from GSMA TD57 standard