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This volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series presents papers from the ICQT 2006 workshop, the 5th International Workshop on Internet Charging and QoS Technology, held in St. Malo, France, alongside ACM SIGMETRICS. The workshop addressed the urgent need for viable business models and pricing schemes for QoS-guaranteed services, which are crucial for diverse business opportunities. The interplay of technical and economic perspectives is essential for application developers, business architects, network providers, service providers, and customers. Key topics include identifying innovative service charging solutions, assessing their technical feasibility, and integrating technical and economic mechanisms to facilitate fast, guaranteed, and efficient service charging. These discussions are vital for the future evolution of the Internet and form the core focus of the ICQT workshop series. The first ICQT was held in 2001 in Vienna, Austria, as part of the Annual Meeting of the German Society for Computer Science and the Austrian Computer Society, with subsequent workshops in 2002 in Zürich, 2003 in Munich, and 2004 in Barcelona.