Goal

Create a prepaid subscription for a subscriber and associate (activate) it to all users in the contract.

Performance: Near real time

Actor(s) and Role(s)

Network Operator

Assumptions

(a) Payment is handled by mechanisms outside of the subscription management system boundary.

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

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

Pre conditions

(a) Services that can be used by a prepaid user are offered by the network.

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

Begins when

A subscriber has signed a new contract with the operator as a prepaid subscriber

Step 1

Create the subscriber profile and populate it with the set of services entitled to by the Contract for the prepaid subscription, including subscriber specific settings and preferences for the subscribed services.

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

Step 2

For each new 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 new user add their subscribed services to

her/his subscription profile by 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 within the contract limits for the prepaid subscription

OR

an error condition has been encountered.

Exceptions

Any of the steps of this use case fails.

Post Condition

A subscriber profile has been created and populated with the set of subscribed service(s).
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