Frequent travelers often pay premium rates to use their mobile phones while roaming. To reduce costs, they often purchase a local SIM card so that incoming calls will be billed as “local.”
This reduces mobile terminated costs and removes the burden of international call expenses from local contacts, but can often prove inconvenient. In an effort to avoid high roaming costs, roamers can buy a local SIM, but this means having to carry around two mobile handsets – another option is to replace the SIM in their mobile handset, providing it isn’t locked, and risk missing an incoming call on the inactive SIM.
Starhome’s Local Roaming Number attracts inbound roamers by providing them a valuable resource – a local number. The service focuses on creating loyalty between the inbound roamers and the visited network by providing the roamers smooth and easy access into the service without language barriers. Local Roaming Number directly addresses the issue by enabling Visited Public Mobile Networks (VPMNs) to provide a local number to their inbound roamers. Roamers can make and receive calls on their home, and new local, numbers.
Virtual private numbering is widely used by large groups of telephone subscribers (companies and other organizations) to improve communication efficiency and reduce costs, short numbers are dialed instead of the full long numbers of group members. The ability to offer this service to mobile subscribers is clearly a major competitive advantage for mobile network operators. Starhome's Mobile Virtual Private Number (mVPN) Service answers this need.
Starhome's mVPN service is a valuable tool for mobile operators to attract new corporate customers and offer existing corporate customers an enhanced service which can increase customer satisfaction while reducing their costs. The service’s strength is its versatility in allowing the “mixing” in user groups of subscribers of different types (prepaid and postpaid) using different technologies.
