Mobile network system
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1. A 3G mobile communication network control system configured to share, by a plurality of carriers, a mobile switching apparatus that connects terminals subscribing to different carriers.
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In order to provide a configuration that allows system building with a relatively simple configuration when building a 3G mobile network system, a RAN part (11, 12, 13, 111, 112, 113, 114, 121, 122), a MSC (131), and a SGSN (132) are shared by a plurality of carriers, and subscriber information is consistently exchanged between a VLR of the shared MSC and HLRs of MSCs (211, 221, 231) for respective carriers, thereby maintaining the consistency with each other.
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- 1. A 3G mobile communication network control system configured to share, by a plurality of carriers, a mobile switching apparatus that connects terminals subscribing to different carriers.
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10. The system as claimed in 2, wherein a packet communication apparatus (SGSN) can be shared by the plurality of carriers by applying the function of the shared mobile switching apparatus, the function storing and managing the information of the terminal relating to interconnection between the mobile communication networks of the different carriers.
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13. A method of controlling a 3G mobile communication network, wherein a mobile switching apparatus that connects terminals subscribing to different carriers is shared by a plurality of carriers.
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14. A mobile switching apparatus that connects terminals subscribing to different carriers, said mobile switching apparatus being configured to be shared by a plurality of carriers.
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15. A mobile switching apparatus for carrier for performing, by each carrier, change of subscriber service and an accounting process within a service area of a shared mobile communication network in a 3G mobile communication network that allows interconnection between terminals subscribing to different carriers by sharing, by a plurality of carriers, a mobile switching apparatus.
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