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DAY 1 THE INCOMPAS SHOW
Data Tech Emphasizes Carrier Margin Assurance
I ntercarrier margin assurance involves more
than carrier access billing systems (CABS)
and access cost, and that’s where Data Tech
nc. can help. Generally, each local exchange
carrier should have a cost per subscriber, which
constantly is being tracked. That per sub cost
comprises several “puts and takes” of which
access revenue and costs are components,
especially for facilities-based LECs.
Still, when assessing profitability on a per
subscriber basis, LECs must track numerous key
performance indicators and trends within the big
data inherent in voice telecom. Sometimes that’s
not easy, convenient or even possible, especially
if your legacy CABS and Access Cost groups are
being repurposed as the incremental value of
access declines.
The key is not just having the data on
hand – though for some LECs that is an
issue – but also having the tools, subject
matter expertise and experience to visu-
alize and monetize the many components of
network revenue and expense.
As an example, does the circuit and trunk
inventory, which you may or may not have in an
accessible database, include the carrier, traffic
type and direction as key fields?
Does that data source specify if those facili-
ties are least-cost routing (LCR), toll, 911, inter-
connect or feature group?
If you have that piece squared away, are
the data fields normalized to the fields in
your call detail records (CDR) so you can
see where the traffic is actually going and
coming from?
Are the CDRs warehoused or data stored,
including those from your switch as well as your
third party CABS and vendor CDRs?
How about circuits?
Are your wholesale Ethernet and backhaul
circuits inventoried and reconciled to your billing
out to your wholesale customer?
Are they normalized and accessible for
comparing to your Type-2 facilities that drive
your cost basis and can have you upside
down rapidly?
Are you paying for stranded facilities?
Do you have enough for overflow?
Are your LCR carriers reducing your rates at
the pace of switched access reductions?
Are they carrying the calls they are signing up
for, or are they failing them over to your anchor
carrier at a premium rate?
It’s easy to see the many moving parts; and
each can be a margin killer. What if you could
squeeze out even another dime per subscriber
in bottom line revenue each month?
Just the thought that either it could happen
or the same dime per sub, per month might
be slipping away should be keeping the CFO
awake at night.
What if a provider could capture, mediate, bill
and store your CDRs?
What if in addition to doing that, the same
provider could manage all your wholesale
circuit contracts and “Move, Add, Change,
Disconnect” orders, bill your customers in a
mechanized CABS format, reconcile your circuit
inventory to billing and cost, manage and audit,
all of your access and long distance telco
accounts payable as well as warehouse all your
data in an accessible way that fulfills reporting,
auditing and compliance, like the Communica-
tions Assistance for Law Enforcement Act?
What if that same provider could use SS7 and/
or SIP data to verify 100 percent recording for
voice traffic and identify phantom traffic and fraud?
ULECs, are you reconciling your subscriber
in-service unbundled network elements to
the ILEC bills every month?
What about switched access, ICA and
wholesale long distance rates. Are the data
stored and accessible for auditing your
switched invoices?
Are you giving away too many long
distance minutes in a bundle to your
customer? Not enough?
Is all of the above spread around more than
half dozen vendors and/or several employees
that may or may not be there tomorrow?
How sure are you, CLEC, LEC or ULEC CFO,
that you have these baseline margin assurance
processes in place?
Data Tech can help put an end to the ques-
tions and start getting you answers and replace
the problems with solutions. Enjoy consistent,
identifiable return of investment from best-
of-breed systems managed by experienced
subject matter experts and partners who have
been in the business for decades. o
Contact Jon Jones at Data Tech Inc. and
schedule a complete assessment of your
company’s margin assurance practices. Call
706-698-3282 or email
to learn more.
C SF Corporation Inc. announced the
availability of 8MS TeXT Version 1.3 to
enable texting with toll-free numbers as
part of its 8MS Toll Free Provisioning and LCR
Software Suite.
CSF’s 8MS toll-free number management,
provisioning and least cost routing (LCR)
solution enables carriers, RespOrgs and
enterprise customers to provision faster, safer
and more efficiently.
The addition of 8MS TeXT Version 1.3 for
toll-free numbers adds texting enablement with
new auto-responder capabilities to CSF’s 8MS
suite of solutions.
“CSF is pleased to announce the availability
of 8MS TeXT Version 1.3,” CSF’s Executive
Vice President Frank Lauria said. “In addi-
tion to provisioning and managing toll-free
voice services and routing using 8MS, our
customers can now enable texting from the
same easy-to-use 8MS provisioning interface.
This opens up a whole new revenue opportu-
nity for RespOrgs, carriers and their customers
because mobile users can now send texts to
and receive texts back from toll-free numbers.
“With a whole new generation of customers
that prefer to interact via text, and years of
investment in branding of their toll-free voice
vanity numbers, this new capability is not only
logical, but highly synergistic with their existing
toll-free voice services,” Lauria added.
CSF is a leader in toll-free number
management, provisioning, and LCR soft-
ware. With more than 95 RespOrg and carrier
customers, CSF’s flagship software product
8MS manages more than half of all toll-free
numbers in the industry.
Customers of CSF save time and money
with its toll-free number management, and
they can reduce external carrier costs more
than 20 percent using CSF’s LCR and route
optimization software. o
During The INCOMPAS Show, CSF is
demonstrating 8MS TeXT and the rest of the
8MS toll-free provisioning and LCR software
suite at booth 200 in the Expo Hall. For more
information, visit .
CSF Releases 8MS TeXT Version 1.3