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New tools help track wireless roamers: carriers face greater data management challenge.(TECHNOLOGY)
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America's Network
- Article date:
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May 1, 2005
- Author:
- Poe, Robert
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Lucent's recent announcement that it had upgraded its "Super Distributed Home Location Register" wireless customer data management system is serious evidence that wireless roaming is entering a new era--and so must methods of handling the information needed for things like authorizing roaming, determining preferences and billing.
At its 2003 introduction, SDHLR's main function was to consolidate the traditional cellular customer information databases known as home location registers (HLRs). The new version is also compatible with IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and other mobile technology. It amounts to an argument by Lucent that any roaming system now has to be ready to ...