Why usage-based charging?
Role of pricing
- Recover costs
- Create revenue
- Control resource usage
Why usage-based charging?
- Way to price in a competitive environment
- Shapes user demand according to actual needs
- Can lead to stable and efficient network operation
Difficulties
- Definition of resource usage not always clear
- Measurement of (theoretical) resource usage can be technologically hard (or even infeasible)
- Trade-off between simplicity and accuracy