billing of application generated traffic

[sdfg]

Hi,

If i write an abpplication, does the BREW platform offer support for billing not only the app download, but also the traffic that the app generates?
In fact, is it possible to download FREE the application and only bill the traffic that it creates?

Thank you,
Bogdan Boji

[Murray Bonner]

As far as I know, there's no way to bill for traffic from BREW. It makes no sense that there would be since this would be viewed as treading on the carrier's territory. In other words, the carrier gets to bill for the traffic the app. generates, not the developer.

[sdfg]

thx a lot for the fast response

[ziemowit]

Well, think I can understand what you can do, and I think BREW provides very simple solution for your problem

Qualcomm provides so-called "use based" license. User purchases an application with predefined number of uses. You can implement your application to decrease this counter manually whenever any web request is sent or particular amount of data is transmitted, but you have to handle this manually. I don't know if that's what you need, but I guess it may be helpful.

Zim

[sdfg]

hmmm, this is a good one... worth thinking about it
many thanks

[ziemowit]

... just check following two functions:

ILICENSE_DecrementUsesRemaining()
ILICENSE_IsExpired()

...that's all you need to implement it in your app