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176 System Administration
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Setting Up a “Normal” Billing Plan , including pricing and bandwidth.
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Setting Up an X over Y Billing Plan
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Messages displayed to subscribers, including an Introduction Message, Offer
Message and Policy Message.
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Billing schemes (units of access).
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Free billing options (free access).
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Promotional code options (for example, when offering a percentage discount).
Duration-based Billing Plans
The purpose of this feature is to let hotels create billing plans that work in a similar fashion to
pre-paid telephone cards. This means that an operator can set the Access Gateway’s Internal
Web Server (IWS) to allow users online on a time “X” over period “Y” basis. Standard billing
plans (where time “X” = period “Y”) can be used concurrently with “X” over “Y” plans. For
example, multiple plans with flexible billing event options can be rolled out, such as:
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Plan A: 24 hours, 256kbit/s downstream, 128Kbit/s upstream, public IP address, $15
charge.
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Plan B: 8 hours to be used over 5 days, 512Kbit/s downstream, 256Kbit/s upstream,
private IP address, $35 charge.
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Plan C: 1 week, 1Mbit/s downstream, 1Mbit/s upstream, public IP address, $99
charge.
In addition to credit card billing, Property Management Systems used by hotels are also
supported along with the internal data base of the Access Gateway and billing via Nomadix'
secure XML API.
See also, “Assigning a PMS Service {PMS}” on page 98 (see following note).
Your product license must support the PMS feature.