Why Cicada?

Establish discount agreements with all roaming partners, not just a few:

Current trading of roaming capacity happens either bilaterally or at WAS meetings. The current process is inefficient because it limits the number of negotiable deals. Negotiating with operators in different time zones on a bilateral basis is not always practical. As a result, most roaming partners do not have a discount agreement and fall back on (very high) default pricing.

Grow your roaming revenues:

One consequence of very high wholesale charges are very high retail roaming charges, this in turn is the origin of “Silent Roamers” which represents a significant revenue loss for roaming departments.

Control your costs

The current process does not allow one-way trades which can lead to higher prices (est. 20%-40%).

Manage your cash flow

Using Cicada Exchange, MNOs can limit the financial commitments they make up front. Mobile operators must commit in advance to a volume of traffic over a period of time while accepting the financial risk if travel is disrupted.