An integral part of Flexible Online Charging suite of solutions, Data Minder is compelling to both family and business customers. Data Minder is similar to the Minutes Minder solution except that rather than controlling the amount of minutes, Data Minder offers control over the amount of data used by the customer.

In a family setting parents are able to designate a limit to data usage on their children's mobile handset. Below that set limit the phone functions as usual. Then once the limit is reached children are denied access to data services or, alternatively, they can be routed to a prepay account.

Data Minder also gives business managers control over their employees' mobile phone usage providing all the tools necessary to establish business rules for data usage. Managers are able to define maximum limits on the amount of data their employees can use during a defined period of time. These limits are configured for groups or for individual mobile users.

Why Data Minder? This solution enables a mobile operator to launch rich real time data plans with usage caps and offer real time budget controls to the individual customer as well as entire corporations. Operators benefit from increased revenue from new customers or existing accounts as a result of this compelling new data services offers. And operators will find that Data Minder is another service that helps to reduce churn.

With Data Minder operators can offer incentive rates for initial blocks for committed amounts of data while imposing a higher rate once the initial package is used up. Data Minder is also used to apply different rates to data as well as to cap the amount of data used in total if desired. In this case once a certain amount of data is used, subsequent data sessions are denied until the next automated refresh period or the allotment is manually changed. Alternately, once a certain amount of the data is used, data sessions can be routed to a personal prepay account for rating until the next automated refresh period or manual allotment. In other words, once funds are used the customer can be blocked from further usage, restricted to free websites or redirected to a top-up site.