Policy as an Asset

Another key recognition is that policy itself could be considered to be an asset in the same way that telco capabilities such as voice, presence and location can be considered assets. Moriana research has shown that operators consider a number of capabilities to be key assets:

• User profile information
• Terminal capabilities
• Location and presence
• Mobile access
• Global roaming
• Carrier grade voice

But our recent work in RCS (still in progress) revealed a strong interest in end-to-end QoS and dynamic charging capabilities emerging. In other words, policy determination. Policy enablement will become crucial and should be regarded as an asset which operators can monetise through commercial relationships with application development partners. At TMF, we saw the first signs of this, with new announcements regarding this capability.