Method of «VIRTUAL CITY» Project Monetization
(Basic categories of clients and methods of service fee collection)
Comment: The text applies terminology introduced for description of Multiservice Integrator of Communications (MIC). For example, «Offices», «Portals», «Cabinets», «Contact and Information Applications», «Infoblocks» etc. Definitions of these terms are supplied in MIC description (www.mic.net.ua)
1. Chargeable services for commercial organizations are the following:
- Allocation of information about an enterprise, its products and services, as well as integration of this information with employees’ addresses (MIC Portals)
- Registration of employees’ official addresses
- Registration of enterprises’ virtual addresses (MIC Offices)
- Creation of internal closed networks for communication and data interchange within an enterprise (MIC Business Cabinets)
- Usage of MIC address environment in digital telephony (subscription fee is charged for initiation of communication sessions in MIC address environment using cellular phones)
- Payment for PSTN communication services
- Commercial advertising (MIC Advertisements)
- Advertising in MIC networks
2. Chargeable services for Non-commercial Organizations and Public Offices are the following:
- Registration of virtual offices for communication and information interchange between organizations and private officials
- Portals registration for information allocation and contacts with individual users
- Creation of internal closed contact and information networks within MIC address environment
- Usage of MIC address environment in digital telephony (subscription fee is charged for initiation of communication sessions in MIC address environment using cellular phones)
- Payment for PSTN communication services
3. Individual Users
A. Free-of-charge services:
- Registration of a limited number of private, public and internal MIC addresses
- Allocation of limited scope of information
- Participation in social networks and creation of users’ own interest groups with limited administration rights
- Participation in content creation (Web-paged)
- Free-of-charge advertisements
- Blog maintenance
- Participation in forums and voice conferences
B. Chargeable services:
- Registration of private, public and internal addresses above the determined free-of-charge limits
- Official address registration
- Allocation of the information sized above the determined free-of-charge limits
- Access to chargeable Internet resources via MIC channels (content, games, chargeable advertisements and social networks)
- Creation of users’ own social networks and social groups with full administration rights
- Usage of MIC addresses for initiation of communication sessions at digital telephony
- Payment for communication services based on MIC addressing in case of PSTN calls