Telco CDR Data Warehouse Reporting

Rather than paying fees for individual functions, carriers should expect Revenue Assurance and CABS functionality for what they are currently spending on CABS.

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Reprinted from Billing World & OSS Today
January 2004
http://www.commsoft.net/CabsConfusion01.04.htm
CABS CONFUSION PLAGUES CARRIERS

John L. Guerra

The largest source of revenue for carriers—fees collected for terminating other carriers’ calls on the network—can be the most frustrating, time consuming and inexact exercise a carrier can go through.

In a constantly changing regulatory and economic environment, carriers can always rely on interconnect partners to juice up their revenue numbers at the end of the month. Or can they?

Determining which carrier owes you is not getting easier. Bankrupt companies are leaving interconnect partners in a lurch, and poor circuit inventory and new regulatory realities such as LNP and UNE-P rule changes are making access billing more complex than ever.
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