Telecom Traffic Monitoring for Fraud Control System

Telecom Traffic Monitoring
for Fraud Control System

In the recent months, controlling of illegal call bypass like VoIP call and other mobile/internet related threats become the major issues for the telecom/internet service providers and the regulator traffic monitoring and control over the possible fraud due to the misuse of telecommunication/internet service and with the requirement efficient regulation, revenue evaluation and cross-verify quality of telecom services to controlling those illegal activities.

Transparency and reporting issues in telecoms
Despite its economic importance, the telecom sector is characterized by an overall lack of transparency that negatively impacts all stakeholders, including governments, telecom regulators, consumers and the operators themselves.
Insufficient reporting and lack of visibility over the traffic exchanged:

Requirements on Centralized Monitoring System
The traffic monitoring system shall be the Centralized Monitoring System (CMS) which requires having the lawful interception at the international gateway. The intercepted records shall be fetched into the central monitoring system located at the authority’s premise. With the existing available technologies and international best practices, current requirements of regulator shall preferably cover the following in the centralized monitoring system.
Traffic Measurement and Analysis
Fraud Control
Quality of Service Monitoring

Focusing Features
A traffic control system
A Quality of Service (QoS) management system
Fraud detection and fraud trace back systems
Interconnection traffic billing systems
Mobile Money Monitoring System to monitor all mobile transactions Central Equipment Identification Registry (CEIR) and an Automatic Device Detection system (ADD)
Market surveillance to monitor compliance with the troy regulations on international and national interconnection rates
Automated Fraud Detection System (robocalls)
Detailed fraud, QoS, and traffic Analysis

Conclusion for Traffic Monitoring and Fraud Control System

The Traffic Measurement System (TMS) shall be a key component and act as a backbone for the whole solution comprising of all the various components that will leverage the benefit from the TMS and build upon namely Fraud Control System & Quality of Service Control system. The TMS shall be capable of the following

Generating Call Detail Records (CDR’s)
Invoicing the Licensed Operators
Monitor the Status of Interconnections (International & National)
Flexible to adapt to different technologies like SS7, SiP, Sigtran, VoIP etc...by the operators
Capture signaling information and extract call details from the signaling links
Non-Intrusive
Provide real time visualization of the operator's traffic exchange status