eli5: Where do Telcos and ISPs get the data bundles that they sell to us?

Question

And also the call packages too?

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Answer 1

They have revenue management and charging departments that use certain software; where they get bundle specifications from the strategy and pricing teams, and then the revenue management/charging engineers create that bundle on the system. For example; the company wants to start offering a bundle that gives you 50 GB of data; and 200 minutes, for $15; and the bundle expires by the end of the month. So the engineers set up those rules on the system by creating a new “prepaid” bundle:

– call limit = 200 minutes

– data allowance = 15 GB

– renewable = FALSE

– validity = 30 days

– price = $15

and so on. And then they test it; and push it to production. And they specify a code that the subscribers dial to subscribe to that new plan.