7.7.23 Charging Characteristics

29.0603GPPGeneral Packet Radio Service (GPRS)GPRS Tunnelling Protocol (GTP) across the Gn and Gp interfaceRelease 17TS

The charging characteristics information element is a way of informing both the SGSN and GGSN of the rules for producing charging information based on operator configured triggers. For the encoding of this information element see 3GPP TS 32.298 [34].

Bits

Octets

8

7

6

5

4

3

2

1

1

Type = 26 (Decimal)

2-3

Charging Characteristics

The Charging Characteristics is defined in 3GPP TS 32.251 [18] and 3GPP TS 32.298 [34].

Figure 31: Charging Characteristics Information Element