Goal

To fulfil a subscription for a new subscriber with one or more users in order to allow the users access to the subscribed services.

Performance: Near real time

Actor(s) and Role(s)

Service Provider

Network Operator

Assumptions

(a) Subscriber credit worthiness has been determined by other systems, techniques and mechanisms which are outside the subscription management system boundary.

(b) Levels of trust for subscribers and users have been determined by other systems, techniques and mechanisms outside of the subscription management system boundary

(c) The Contract contains the number of users and the set of services these may use.

(d) For each user the services she/he may use are also defined base on the above mentioned set of subscribed services.

Pre conditions

(a) The services that can be offered by the network have been defined.

(b) Sufficient resources are available to support the anticipated take up of services by users.

Begins when

A subscriber has signed a new contract with the Service Provider and/or Network Operator

Step 1

Create the subscriber profile and populate it with the set of services subscribed to the subscriber including subscriber specific settings and preferences for the subscribed services.

Associated information element(s): Subscriber Profile, Subscribed Services Profile

Step 2

For each user create a subscription profile using the Create a subscription for a new user use case

Associated information element(s): Subscription Profile

Create a subscription for a new user

Step 3

For each user modify her/his subscription profile to fulfil the services in the network using the Modify a subscription for an existing user use case.

Associated information element(s): Subscription Profile, Service Profile

Modify a subscription for an existing user

Ends when

The network allows the users to use their subscribed services

OR

an error condition has been encountered.

Exceptions

Any of the steps of this use case fails

Post Conditions

A subscriber profile has been created and populated with the set of subscribed services.
The subscription profiles for each user have been created and populated with data necessary for the usage of their subscribed services.

Associated information element(s): Subscriber Profile, Subscribed Services Profile, Subscription Profile, Service Profile

Traceability

Requirements:

Each type of services offered requires the ability to uniquely identify it.

To support self care it will be necessary to be able to correlate services references in a subscription, to the subscription profiles in the network.

It will be necessary to be able to audit the capabilities in a subscription against the subscription profile(s) in the network elements.