VSWG Conf CallDecember 20, 2006

AgendaAgenda:• Announce the 2007 priorities.

– Decide if carriers want to make their 2007 prioritizations public. – Determine if work items will move forward if no carrier agrees to sponsor them

even if voted a high priority by the group. – Ask for volunteers for new work items including prepaid.

• Call for volunteers for carrier co-chair of the VSWG.   – Primary responsibility is to assist in gathering carrier input for direction of the

work items. • Carriers asked for accountability and reporting. In an attempt to meet that

request and help carriers track their VSWG participation I have created a scorecard for surveys. 

– Scorecards (not the actual survey answers) will be available to view on the wiki.  http://210.54.118.1/wiki/Scorecards

– May create future scorecards for things like vendor participation, vendor support, document reviews and document requirements implementations.  Any ideas from the group as to what their leadership/management wants to see reported on?

• Review the events of the IRT VSWG San Francisco meeting. Follow this link to review the notes. http://210.54.118.1/wiki/20061129_VSWG_San_Francisco_Face_to_Face_Minutes

Carrier ranking 2006 Voice and SMS Working Group Priorities Deliverable

WIP Document 81 TDS update Standardized Excel spreadsheet for network TDS

WIP Document 119 Roaming Process Document Publish an updated version

WIP MEID1. CDG reference doc

2. Following up on MEID v UIMID in CIBER question

SMS 1 SMS white paper1. CDG reference doc

2. Set timelines for implementation

SMS 2 SMS Roaming Partner Qualification Form CDG reference doc #132

SMS 3 SMS Test Plan CDG reference doc #134

Voice 1 Caller ID including support for international MDN1. CDG reference doc

2. Set timelines for implementation

Voice 2 Voice mail access, indicator and retrieval1. CDG reference doc

2. Set timelines for implementation

Voice 3Network based + code dialing documentation

including *99

1. Survey of equipment vendors.2. List of requirements for network and handset vendors.3. Survey of handset vendors to ascertain support for + code.

4. CDG reference document of what is and what future direction is. 5. Survey of carrier implementation

Voice 4CIBER XO retirement and move to X2 (record types

10 and 20 to record type 22)1. CDG reference document on change

2. Educate carriers

Voice 5 Coverage map availability and exchange1. CDG reference document

2. Website to exchange coverage.

Voice 6Voice authentication while roaming – moved to the

fraud team

CDG reference document including pros and cons of implementing, various ways to implement and recommended best practices

Voice 7Quality of service – service level agreements, use of

probing devices1. CDG reference document specifying service level agreements.

2. Educate carriers on use of network probing devices

Voice 8 Prepaid roaming with WIN triggers (IS 826)

CDG reference document including pros and cons of implementing, various ways to implement and recommended best practices

Response Rate• Amazing response rate!!!

– 27 Carriers responded – 93% Increase over last year’s response rate– Participation from all around the globe– Participation from carriers with varying levels

of experience– Large, small and medium sized carriers

responded– Excellent job - Thanks to you all!!

Who responded?• Alltel • Oceanic Digital Jamaica

• Bakrie Telecom • Reliance

• Bell Mobility • SK Telecom

• Bermuda Digital • Skylink Russia

• BTC Bahamas • SkyTel Mongolia

• Centennial Puerto Rico • Speednet (Belize)

• Citycell (PBTL) • Sprint Nextel

• China Unicom • Tata

• Digicel • Telecom New Zealand

• EOCG • Telesystems of Ukraine

• HutchCAT • TELUS

• KDDI • Verizon

• LG Telecom • Vivo

• Mobile 8

Rank 2007 Work item title# of

responses Score Sponsor

1 Device requirements - roaming 25 4.48 TNZ will consult Verizon will consult  

2 Enhanced PRL 26 4.77 Verizon will sponsor Skylink will consult  

3WIN services for roaming (e.g. short code

dialing) 24 5.21      

4 Standardized feature codes 25 5.40EOCG – confirming desire to sponsor or

consult    

5 Remote OTA 24 5.54EOCG – confirming desire to sponsor or

consult TNZ will participate BM - ?

6TLDNs – testing, reporting on TDS,

formatting 23 6.04      

7 Technical Data Sheet exchange/repository 25 6.08EOCG – confirming desire to sponsor or

consult Verizon will sponsor  

8 End to end billing testing 22 6.59 Alltel will sponsor    

9 Connecting using Global Title Routing 23 7.22 Skylink will consult    

10 Technical solutions to lowering LD rates 22 8.09EOCG – confirming desire to sponsor or

consult    

11 Emergency services 22 8.68      

12 Virtual Home Environment 23 9.26      

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National and home country call barring (Origination Indictor=9) – this allows a roamer to make national calls as well as call back to their home country. 22 9.41      

2007 Priorities– Decide if carriers want to make their 2007

prioritizations public. – Determine if work items will move forward if

no carrier agrees to sponsor them even if voted a high priority by the group.

– Volunteers for new work items including second carrier sponsor for 2006 work item prepaid.

Carrier co-chair

• Call for volunteers for carrier co-chair of the VSWG.   – Primary responsibility is to assist in gathering

carrier input for direction of the work items.

ScorecardCarriers asked for accountability and reporting. A

scorecard for carrier surveys has been created.  – Scorecards (not the actual survey answers) are available to view

on the wiki.  http://210.54.118.1/wiki/Scorecards

Scorecard

– May create future scorecards for things like:• vendor participation• vendor support• document reviews• requirements implementations• sponsorship of work items• conference call participation• IRT attendance

– Any ideas from the group as to what their leadership/management wants to see reported on?

CalendarSee calendar on the wiki – updated often.

Mon 2006-12-18 Conference call on Voicemail (1700 PST)

Tue 2006-12-19 Comments due on 2007 Prioritization

Wed 2006-12-20 Conference calls to review San Francisco meeting (0700 PST &

1600 PST) Wed 2007-03-21

VSWG Face-to-Face Meeting Macau Sun 2007-04-01

Implementation deadline for carriers to use the Standardized TDS

Minutes from San Francisco

• Review the events of the IRT VSWG San Francisco meeting. Follow this link to review the notes before the meeting. http://210.54.118.1/wiki/20061129_VSWG_San_Francisco_Face_to_Face_Minutes