iX Rating – Business Benefits

Increases customer satisfaction and drives up ARPU
Reduces costs
Improves market focus
Enables fast and low-risk deployment

Increases customer satisfaction and drives up ARPU
With iX Rating, subscribers define their own budget limits for high-value services. This is the secret to increasing ARPU and customer loyalty. Real-time balances and alerts give customers immediate clarity about their financial status. The Advice of Charge service allows making decisions before a transaction is confirmed, creating customer confidence and motivating them to try our new services. Through its new content product center operators can easily and quickly manage, bundle, and deploy content products to their targeted markets.

Reduces costs
With iX Rating, communications providers get one system for all of their subscribers and service offerings, covering voice, data, and content in the wireless and wireline markets. iX Rating uses the same rating engine for prepaid and postpaid scenarios so that marketing campaigns can be applied across the whole subscriber base, avoiding the costly effort of duplication and configuration. What's more, monitoring high-risk customers and partners reduces collection costs. With iX Rating operators can use a unified real-time sytem not only for retail but also for all of their wholesale business partner charging.

Improves market focus
LHS iX Rating provides tools to competitively introduce new prepaid and postpaid services in the market. Its rule-based product definition engine creates new products and services through online configuration, cutting deployment time to hours or minutes. It provides differentiation through innovative marketing of balance products such as spending control or credit alerts. iX Rating supports communications providers’ IP and IMS network roll outs for more service convergence and personalized multimedia offerings.

Enables fast and low-risk deployment
LHS iX Rating cuts implementation risk. It is a stand-alone solution defined with open APIs and limited touch points to external systems. iX Rating enables stepwise and soft migration strategies. It can be deployed as a single rating solution for all services or as an adjunct solution for a subset of services.