Mobile Subscriber Provisioning
This refers to the setting up of new services, such as GPRS, MMS and Instant Messaging for an existing subscriber of a mobile phone network, and any gateways to standard Internet chat or mail services. The network operator typically sends these settings to the subscriber's handset using SMS or WAP as mobile operating systems accept.
A typical example of provisioning is the BlackBerry services. A mobile user who is using voice services wishes to switch to BlackBerry services as his emails and data is very crucial for him to carry, his BlackBerry services are "provisioned" and thus he is able to stay connected through push emails and other features of BlackBerry services.
Device Management players such as Sicap ensures that end-users benefit from plug and play data services, whatever device they are using. Such a platform automatically detects devices in the network and sends them settings for immediate and continued usability. The process is fully automated, keeps history of used devices and sends setting only to subscriber devices which were not previously set. Sicap DMC ( Device Management Centre ) achieves this by filtering IMEI/ IMSI pairs. Some operators ( see example from Vimpelcom Group subsidiary Kartel) report DM activity of 50 over-the-air settings update files per second.
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