8 Charging

22.1413GPPPresence serviceStage 1TS

The presence service shall be able to support various charging mechanisms both for On-line and Off-line charging. The following charging characteristics shall be considered:

– charging for a user’s registration as a presentity

– charging for each subscription to presence information for a user

– charging for presence information retrieval for users

– charging for presence information notifications received for users

– charging for presence information usage when in a visited network

The above list is not exhaustive.