Thread: Content Service Providers gain

Content Service Provide is the most visible member of the iCDN ecology. Like a Mobile Service Provider, he registers a new iSTB and hand-holds with it subse-
quently for authenticating it, accounting its usage and billing it on a prepaid basis. It allows an iSTB to tap the iCDN services throughout the world, on a roaming ba¬sis, from the head-end servers. It also fetches for it the keys needed for decrypting the encrypted contents and channels, from the resepective Content and Channel providers.



A Content Service Provider, uses a "Fees" file provided by the Revenue Distributor of the country, for calculating the monthly billing of an iSTB based on the usage. For international roaming, it will use the Fees file, as provided by the Revenue Distributor of that country. It is required to deposit the billing amount every month with the Revenue Distributor, so that the same can then be distributed to other eco-partners.