# Which IRCM solutions support usage-based billing and service monetization for telecommunications providers?

<p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">Usage-based billing is becoming more complex as CSPs monetize IoT, 5G slicing, OTT services, and hybrid bundles. I’m comparing which IRCM platforms provide the rating and charging flexibility these models require.</p><ul>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/oracle-communications-billing-and-revenue-management-brm/reviews"><strong>Oracle Communications BRM</strong></a><strong>:</strong> Supports 5G monetization, tiered rating, roaming, interconnect, discounting, and detailed pricing configurations.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/ericcson-charging-and-billing-in-one-cbio/reviews"><strong>Ericsson CBiO</strong></a><strong>:</strong> Provides convergent prepaid and postpaid charging with accurate network-level usage data.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/csg-ascendon/reviews"><strong>CSG Ascendon</strong></a><strong>:</strong> Handles subscription, usage-based, hybrid, prepaid, postpaid, and complex B2B monetization models.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/agentforce-communications-formerly-salesforce-communications-cloud/reviews"><strong>Agentforce Communications</strong></a><strong>:</strong> Uses a catalogue-driven approach to define and launch new services.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/comarch-bss-suite/reviews"><strong>Comarch BSS Suite</strong></a><strong>:</strong> Supports 5G, IoT, OTT, and promotional pricing through configurable billing modules.</li>
</ul><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">How much custom development did your newest service model require?</p>

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- Posted at: 2 months ago
- Author title: Marketer
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## Comments
### Comment 1

Usage-based billing for telecom is unforgiving of billing errors at scale, since even a small miscalculation multiplied across a large customer base becomes a real financial and trust problem fast.

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- Posted at: 15 days ago
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### Comment 2

&lt;p&gt;The mediation point is key because flexible rating only works if the usage feeding it is trustworthy. I’d test a genuinely new service type end to end, from raw usage ingestion through deduplication, rating, and the final bill. That would show whether launching it is mostly configuration or whether every new metering model creates another engineering project.&lt;/p&gt;

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- Posted at: 18 days ago
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### Comment 3

&lt;p&gt;Upstream of rating, the thing that decides accuracy is mediation: whether usage records arrive complete, deduplicated and on time. A perfect rating engine fed late or duplicated records still bills wrongly, and that&#39;s often where new service types first go astray. Worth scoping the mediation work separately rather than folding it into the billing project.&lt;/p&gt;

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- Posted at: 20 days ago
- Author title: Tech Consultant



### Comment 4

&lt;p&gt;Most new usage-based models, especially 5G slicing or IoT metering, end up needing a custom rating plug-in, because the out-of-box rating engine is usually built around classic voice/data/SMS units, not the new metering dimensions like compute time per slice or device count. I&#39;ve noticed this reflected in reviews too: one CBiO reviewer said the platform gives telecom providers accurate usage data that helps avoid revenue loss, while another flagged that any modification or customization request went through a long change-request process. Together that suggests the core rating accuracy is solid, but adapting the logic for a genuinely new service type still takes real engineering time, not just configuration.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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- Posted at: 2 months ago
- Author title: SEO Content Writer





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