Online sign-up in neutral host networks

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A network node that performs Online Set Up, OSU, Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting, AAA, for a Participating Service Provider, PSP, to enable User Equipment devices, UEs, to access a data network via a Neutral Host Network, NHN, that comprises one or more Access Points, APs, that provide wireless access according to a cellular communications technology, the network node comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• memory storing instructions executable by the at least one processor whereby the network node is operable to provide, to another network node in the NHN, a filter list that defines limitations on a connectivity of a Packet Data Network, PDN, connection established for OSU between a UE and the PSP.

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A method of operation of a network node in a Neutral Host Network, NHN, in relation to an Online Set Up, OSU, procedure by which User Equipment devices, UEs, are enabled to access a data network via the NHN where the NHN comprises one or more Access Points, APs, that provide wireless access according to a cellular communications technology, the method of operation of the network node comprising:

• obtaining a filter list that defines limitations on a connectivity of a Packet Data Network, PDN, connection established for OSU between a UE and a Participating Service Provider, PSP;
• and
• utilizing the filter list such that traffic on the PDN connection is limited to traffic between the UE and one or more other network nodes of the PSP that perform operations related to OSU.

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