Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission on Thursday floated international tender for the installation of Telecom Monitoring System that would allow the telecom regulator to monitor live the mobile phone operators’ service quality and revenue-related data.
The tender was floated after the commission approved a proposal in this connection in November this year.
The tender winning entity would be liable for designing and developing a complete monitoring system that would allow the commission to oversee network, voice and data traffic, call detail record, subscriber and services of the mobile phone operators.
Integrating revenue reporting process and automated audit system in the proposed system in line with BTRC regulations would be included in the TMS along with development, deployment, acquisition and installation of required software and hardware to implement the proposed system.
Bid winner would ensure the scalability of the system for future expansion aimed to incorporate all telecom operators.
One year operation and two years maintenance of the system along with training of BTRC officials for efficient use of the system will be among other responsibilities of the entity. The offer of the commission also mentioned that two-stage tendering method would be following in awarding the job.
To install such a system, the BTRC has already issued a directive to all the mobile phone operators to facilitate setting up of the monitoring system. It asked the operators to provide all required data to the online monitoring system.
Besides, the commission instructed the operators to provide connectivity to all required data and network nodes, including all types of call detail record, event data records and transaction detail record, intelligent network interconnection, recharging gateway, service nodes, mobile network portability gateway, HLR dump, provisioning gateway for subscribers, NodeB, RNC, eNodeB and value-added service usage logs.
The mobile phone operators were also asked to provide connectivity with all types of price plan configurations dump, rated CDR, itemised bills, billing records and account balance dump.
Source: http://www.newagebd.net/article/59388/btrc-invites-bid-to-install-telecom-monitoring-system