
The Home Zone solution gives mobile operators the ability to offer customers reduced rates for calls made when the customer is located in specific areas designated as their Home Zone. Home Zones are generally defined by the postal code of the customer's home location.
Operators benefit from their customers' increased use of mobile handsets rather than wire lines while at home. What makes the Home Zone solution attractive to customers is the benefit of reduced rates for their calls. And Home Zone encourages the use of mobile phones instead of wireline phones, offers a way for mobile operators to compete against traditional wireline operators, and increases the number of mobile originated calls from the Home Zone while increasing mobile terminated calls. All of this coupled with fixed monthly service fees increases ARPU.
The RF coverage of a mobile network is frequently changing with the addition of new cellular sites and adjustments to existing sites. To accommodate these frequent changes Home Zone provides operators a set of utilities that make it easy to assign a customer to a Home Zone and then manage the list of cell sites associated with each customer's Home Zone.
