Analytics triggered subscriber policies

A network system comprising:

• a mobile network gateway that applies one or more subscriber specific policy and charging control rules to network traffic associated with a plurality of subscribers to collect network traffic data for the plurality of subscribers;
• an analytics system that receives, from the mobile network gateway, the network traffic data for the plurality of subscribers, aggregates the network traffic data collected for the plurality of users into aggregated network traffic data, determines, based on the aggregated network traffic data, whether one or more subscriber independent data collection criteria for a network need to be updated, and, responsive to determining that the one or more subscriber independent data collection criteria need to be updated, updates, based on the aggregated network traffic data, the subscriber independent data collection criteria;
• and
• a policy charging and rule function device that translates the updated subscriber independent data collection criteria from updated subscriber independent data collection criteria into updated subscriber specific policy and charging control rules,
• wherein the mobile network gateway further applies the updated subscriber specific policy and charging control rules to additional network traffic to collect additional network traffic data.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage media encoded with instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a network device, cause the network device to:

• receive, from a mobile network gateway, network traffic data for network traffic, the network traffic data including network traffic data for a plurality of subscribers;
• aggregate, based on one or more criteria, the network traffic data for the plurality of subscribers into aggregated network traffic data;
• determine, based on the aggregated network traffic data, whether one or more subscriber independent data collection criteria for a network need to be updated;
• and
• responsive to determining that the one or more subscriber independent data collection criteria need to be updated:
• update, based on the aggregated network traffic data, the subscriber independent data collection criteria to include a request for more granular information for at least a portion of the network traffic;
• provide the updated subscriber independent data collection criteria to a policy charging and rules function device that translates the updated subscriber independent data collection criteria from updated subscriber independent data collection criteria into updated subscriber specific policy and charging control rules;
• and
• receive additional network data for the portion of the network traffic specified in the updated subscriber independent data collection criteria.