Mobile Solutions

Worldwide mobile penetration continues to increase. Dozens of countries are approaching or exceeding 100% household penetration. In developing markets, incumbents often use mobile telephony as the primary telecommunications infrastructure to avoid costly fixed line capital deployment. In regions where phone service in general was once uncommon, it’s not unusual to record double-digit annual growth in mobile penetration. With market liberalization, more operators are entering the marketplace and pricing continues to decline. Mobile operators, like their fixed line counterparts, demand quality and high termination rates as it often directly affects their revenue models.

Customers expect high call completion rates to overseas destinations and solid voice quality. Poor termination and quality affects a service provider’s brand, reputation and competitiveness. International traffic can provide mobile operators with good margins, but only upon completing calls to the subscriber’s desired destination. The nature of wireless technology, and the implicit variability associated with transmitting and receiving, demands the highest quality services in the supply chain to ensure that calls are completed and not dropped.

Arbinet offers mobile operators choices for terminating quality traffic, such as DirectAxcess^sm, which enables providers to route traffic directly to the in-country PTT or Tier-1 provider. Our dedicated account development and sales professionals can help carriers choose the best marketplaces and partners for managing their retail traffic.

Arbinet offers a variety of technology-based solutions to service the retail marketplace. Arbinet’s Global Number Portability Correction (GNPC) Services, for example, provides carriers with the intelligence required to efficiently and cost-effectively route inter-country calls to number portability markets. Arbinet offers a range of intelligent routing solutions that enable originating carriers to route calls to the provider serving the number, rather than to the code-implied network after subscribers have switched operators. For more information about growing issues surrounding mobile number portability as it affects inter-country traffic, please visit www.globalnumberportability.org

Arbinet also offers services for Members to buy and sell international and domestic U.S. routes privately, and expand partnership opportunities without adding management complexity. With private market relationships, Arbinet’s trading, routing and settlement services support the carriers’ own mutual agreements and relieve the burden of lower volume or inefficient bilateral or wholesale relationships.

Arbinet’s solutions for mobile markets include:

• Portability Solutions Optimize Call Termination with Global Number Portability Correction Services
• PrivateExchange^sm – Manage your voice telecommunications partnerships more efficiently