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A subscriber goes abroad and their roaming charges only reach you days later. How does charging cope with that?
6 min readUpdated 2026-08-15Target archetype: Enterprise Captive
Answer
Short answer
Roaming splits usage from its record: the visited operator meters it and sends files later, so postpaid rates on records that may miss the bill and prepaid cannot wait at all.
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