1. Basic Mobility Handling - The HLR keeps track of the Mobile
Subscribers in the network. This allows the subscribers to be reached wherever they are in the entire GSM area. 2. Call Forwarding Services - The purpose of this feature is to provide means for the service provider or a mobile subscriber, handled in HLR, to forward incoming calls to another directory number. 3. Call Barring Services - The purpose of this feature is to provide means to a Operator or a mobile subscriber, handled in HLR, to bar calls. 4. Advice of Charge Services - The Advice of Charge feature makes it possible to send charging information to the mobile phone, and to make it possible for the mobile phone to calculate and display the estimated charge for a call. 5. Performance Management - This feature provides the operator with tools to manage the performance of the HLR as well as the HLR network. 6. Basic Subscription Handling - The feature provides syntax 1. Mobile Application Part (MAP) - is a comprehensive and consistency checks for subscription data provisioning signaling scheme which has been developed especially for commands in HLR Front End. GSM/WCDMA networks. MAP provides the necessary 7. Operator Determined Barring (ODB) - provides the operator signaling procedures required for the exchange of with a set of barring options to control subscribers use of information between MSCs and HLR. packet switched services or voice services 8. Basic Call Handling This feature provides the GMSC with MAP V3 is backward compatible (from a technical point of routing information or forwarding information for incoming view) in regards to standard operations and parameters. For telephony calls. interworking with nodes not supporting MAP V3, an 9. Fax Service subscription - This feature makes it possible to automatic fallback mechanism to MAP V2 and MAP V1 is subscribe to the Fax Service. provided. 10. Call Waiting and Call Hold subscription - offers the The following features require the introduction of MAP V3: possibility of handling Call Waiting and Call Hold Any Time Interrogation HLR Front End Subscription, which means that relevant data constitutes ODB, Operator Determined Barring part of the mobile subscriber data handled in the HLR. CAMEL, Customized Application for Mobile Enhanced 11. Common Channel Signaling System No. 7 (SS7) - This Logic feature is a prerequisite for all applications based on ITU-T HSCSD, High Speed Circuit Switched Data No.7 signaling. (Message Transfer Part (MTP); Signaling Mobile Traffic Recording Connection Control Part (SCCP); Transaction Capabilities Mobile Positioning (TC) ) UMTS security features 12. Multi Party Service subscription - provides means to a mobile subscriber to initiate a multiparty call. 13. GSM / WCDMA Authentication Data Handling - This Feature handles authentication data for all mobile subscribers in HLR. In order to perform authentication and ciphering for mobile subscribers, at least one triplet should be allocated to each subscriber. 14. Roaming Restriction per HLR - gives the operator the ability to restrict roaming to certain VLR/SGSN areas. This restriction is valid for all subscribers handled in the HLR. 15. USSD data in HLR - USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) enables a mobile user to invoke and control supplementary services 16. Account Codes in HLR - Account Codes are numeric strings included in the toll ticket (billing) records. Account codes are used by business subscribers to indicate which accounts are to be charged for each call related expense (for example, air-time or long distance calls).