Postpaid

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For postpaid -Zahlungssystemen is phone contracts with subsequent accounting . The counter model to postpaid tariffs are prepaid offers. Postpaid means something like “afterwards” or “pay later”.

functionality

Postpaid tariffs generally run for two years and are billed monthly. Cell phone discounters also offer postpaid tariffs without a minimum contract period and without a basic fee .

The mobile phone provider provides the customer with a customer card - also known as a "postpaid card" - on which the identification of the associated customer account is specified. At the end of a specified billing period - usually one month - an invoice is issued with the charges incurred (one-off charges and call charges in mobile and landline networks - GSM / GPRS or content ).

The tariff structure on the market is different. For frequent callers (business customers) tariffs with high basic charges and low time tariffs are offered during the day, for infrequent callers tariffs with lower basic charges with higher per-minute prices during the day and cheaper evening tariffs.

In principle, the monthly volume of calls is unlimited; However, mobile network operators register when there is above-average daily use in order to identify abuse and fraud and to be able to take timely action (usually by blocking the card or notifying the customer). Regular cost control has the customer but only on systems with advance ( prepaid ).

The customer can have certain phone numbers (e.g. value-added numbers , international calls ) generally blocked.

In contracts with subsequent billing, customers have been able to make calls ( roaming ) in foreign networks at home and abroad since the introduction of the GSM networks . While with prepayment systems calls have to be monitored in real time so that the mobile phone provider can end a call as soon as the credit is used up, with postpaid roaming no online connection between the external network used and your own network is necessary. Call connections that are set up from abroad, however, require the previous query of the so-called Visitor Location Register ( VLR ) of the foreign network operator for the profile of the card in its own network and that of the so-called Home Location Register ( HLR ) with regard to any roaming blocks by the customer (via GSM code ) or the network operator.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Patrick Stähler: Rethinking business model innovations or radically rethinking your business . In: Daniel RA Schallmo (Ed.): Compendium Business Model Innovation . Springer Gabler, 2014, ISBN 978-3-658-04459-6 , pp. 131 f .
  2. ↑ Marcus Gier: WLAN and Hotspot Know How . 1st edition. UNIKA Fachverlag GmbH, 2006, p. 168 .