# Configuring Parent and Children Number

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Descriptions

The Parent and Children feature allows parents to put spending limits on their children's mobile phone usage. The calls made between parent and child can be charged in a discounted calling rate. Moreover, the numbers of charged calls the child can make are predefined on a daily basis. It is controlled by COS parameter.

The parent account is principal account while the children accounts are its supplementary accounts. The operator can restrict the following supplementary accounts characteristics for a specific principal account group (COS):

•The max calls can be made on a daily basis.

•The max SMS can be sent on a daily basis.

•Enable or disable child to transfer balance.

•The ceiling credit can be complemented on a daily basis, or the lower credit limit to inform parent to transfer balance manually.

There are two ways to add supplementary accounts to principal account:

•Dial to the service center, and ask operator to add the main account number in the supplementary account profiles.

•Dial to the service number to register and activate supplementary accounts by following the IVR instructions. After a successful binding, a notification short message will be sent to both the parent and child mobiles.

Each main account can own up to five supplement accounts. The PPS will automatically transfer credit from the main account to its supplementary accounts on a daily basis to top-up it to a preset ceiling credit. The supplement accounts can be set into senior rank and junior rank. Each rank of supplementary accounts can have its own ceiling credit. Since the credit will be transferred immediately when the supplementary account is created, the main account is not allowed to add supplementary account when his balance is lower than a preset minimal balance limit.

For example, the ceiling credit of senior account is 10$ and the ceiling credit of junior account is 5$. At the beginning of a day, there are 10$ in the senior account and 5$ in the junior account. At the end of the day, there remains 4$ in the senior account and 4$ in the junior account. The next day, the PPS will transfer 6$ from the parent account to its senior account to top-up it to 10$, and transfer 1$ to its junior account.

The following diagrams demonstrate the operation procedures and relevant audio prompts when a subscriber dials to the P&C service number with different privileges (parent and child):

Implementation

| Configure SCCP Parameters

Refer to Enabling Prepaid Service to configure SCCP parameters.

| Configure PPS Parameters

Refer to Enabling Audio Prompt to configure the PPS hotline number.

1.Go to EMS >Configuration >NSS >PPS.

2.Make sure the System ID at the upper right corner displays PPS_pub, click the button.

1.Click to open the SRF Parameters >Service Number tab.

2.Click the hyperlinked index number of Pool Account Service Number to open its option window.

3.Configure the dedicated service number for Parent and Children Number service.

4.Click highlight SAVE after change.

5.Click the button to update parameters to application servers.

1.Click to open the Service Control >SMS Sentence tab.

2.Click the hyperlinked index number of the Pool Account relevant sentences to open the configuration window.

3.Edit the sentence in the Language x Content line, click highlighted SAVE when it's done.

4.Click the button to update parameters to application servers.

Sub-parameter | SMS Sentence
Pool Account | Child balance is too low, please recharge it on time.
Pool Account | You have added a child number:
Pool Account | You have deleted a child number:
Pool Account | You have been added as a child number by:
Pool Account | Your child role have been deleted by:

| Customize P&C Number Attributes in COS

1.Click to open the Service Control >COS tab.

2.Click the hyperlinked index number to open an existing COS table, or click New to create a new COS table.

3.In the Service Control >Parent & Children Number table, configure the relevant parameters given in the following table.

4.Click the button to update parameters to application servers.

Sub-parameter | Description (Click highlight SAVE after change) | Optional Values
Role | Specify the pool account status and role of this COS. •Normal = the pool account parameters are inactive in this COS. •Parent = the parameters for parent are active. •Child = the parameters for child are active. | •Normal •Parent •Child
Parent Chosen COS A | Specify two COS for child accounts with different authority levels when the upper Flag is set to Parent. To conform with IVR prompt, the COS A should set to a higher authority. | 0 - 63
Parent Chosen COS B
Child Transfer Flag | The following parameters are for child account. They come into effect when the upper Flay is set to Child. Enable or disable the child account transfer balance privately. | •Enable •Disable

Child Credit From

Specify the mode that the parent account replenishes child accounts.

•Auto Replenish = Parent account automatically replenishes the child accounts to the Child Max Consumed Credit on a daily basis.

•Manual Transfer = When the credit in the child account reaches the Child Max Consumed Credit, a short message will be sent to notify his parent to transfer credit manually.

•Auto Replenish

•Manual Transfer

Child Max Calls per Day | Specify the limit of calls and short messages that the child account can make and send per day. | 0 - 65535
Child Max SMS per Day
Child Max Consumption | This parameter refers to the Child Credit From parameter. Unit is the minimum currency unit. •For Auto Replenish, it's the ceiling credit. •For Manual Transfer, it's the lower credit limit to trigger notification short message.
Pool Account Flag | Enable or disable Parent & Children Number service in the specific COS. | 0 - 65535
Charge for Change | Enable or disable charge for changing child number. | •Enable •Disable
Free Changes | Specify the free change times of child number if charge is enabled. | 0 - 127

| Configure F&F Tariff

1.Go to EMS >Advanced >Tariff Plan >Refresh.

2.Click the second Download button to update the current Tariff Plan from PPS to OMC GUI.

1.Go to EMS >Advanced >Tariff Plan >MO.

2.Select a Tariff ID from the upper right corner Tariff ID drop-down list.

3.In the Supplementary Tariff table, click the hyperlinked Pool Call to open its option window.

4.Configure the Charge Amount in minimum currency and Charge Unit in second for F&F number call.

5.Click the button to update parameters to Tariff Plan.

6.Click the hyperlinked Pool Account Change Fee to open its option window.

7.Configure the Charge Amount in minimum currency for Child Number change.

8.Click the button to update parameters to Tariff Plan.

1.Go to EMS >Advanced >Tariff Plan >Startup.

2.Enter the new tariff activate time and click Submit button to submit.

The Parent and Children Number call charge format is:

P&C Number Call Charge = Charge for Initial Call Period + Charge for Call Duration.

•Charge for Initial Call Period = Minimum Charging Unit (defined in MO Basic Tariff table) x Pool Call Tariff (defined in Supplementary Tariff table) + Initial Charge Adjustment (defined in MO Basic Tariff table)

•Charge for Call Duration = Pool Call Tariff (defined in Supplementary Tariff table) x ceil {[Call Duration - Free Time (defined in MO Basic Tariff table) - Min. Charging Unit (defined in MO Basic Tariff table) x Charging Unit (defined in Supplementary Tariff table)] / Charging Unit (defined in Supplementary Tariff table)}

| Configure PPS Subscriber Account to Activate P&C Number Service

Subscriber should dial to the prepaid service center to subscribe for the P&C Number service, and then operator updates the PPS account to activate this service:

1.Go to EMS >Advanced >Subscriber >PPS.

2.Click the button on the up right corner to upload PPS subscribers from PPS database.

3.Click the MSISDN of the subscriber want to edit, this displays the editable parameter window.

4.In the #40 line, modify the Pool Account Type from Normal to Parent to activate the P&C Number service, select the button at the front.

5.Click the button at the top of the parameter table to upload the new values to PPS servers.

6.Click the button at the top of the parameter table to update values from PPS servers.

7.Verify that the new values have been saved for the subscriber.

| Function Presentation

1.Subscriber A (parent) dials P&C service number. SRF plays announcement:

Press 1 to inquire existing child numbers; Press 2 to add a child number; Press 3 to delete an existing child number; Press 0 to cancel.

2.Subscriber A presses 2. SRF plays announcement:

Please enter the child number. Press # to end.

3.Subscriber A inputs the number of subscriber B #. SRF plays announcement:

Please specify the child number to an authority level. Press 1 to senior rank. Press 2 to junior rank.

4.Subscriber A presses 1. SRF plays announcement:

The child number to add is number B. The authority level is senior rank. Press 1 to confirm; Press 2 to re-enter; Press 0 to cancel.

5.Subscriber A presses 1. SRF plays announcement:

Added number successfully.

6.A notification short message is sent to subscriber A:

You have added a child number: <Number B>

6.A notification short message is sent to subscriber B:

You have been added as a child number by: <Number A>

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