ComptelPLUS Fall15 Show Daily Day 1

COMPTEL PLUS Fall 2015 Business Expo

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Monday, October 19, 2015

DAY 1

Data Tech: Make CABS Work for You

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Reach outside your footprint.

Mammoth Networks: Your off-net provider.

here are still intercarrier compensation

options for smaller LECs and CLECs as the ICC

Reform glide path marches on, according to

Data Tech. Not only is the revenue still important

for smaller customers, but “we at Data Tech, cham-

pions of our customers’ carrier access billing system

(CABS) revenue dollars for almost 30 years, hate to

see IXCs get the benefit of ‘free’ access when a CLEC

gives in to the cost/benefit crunch of CABS and

related services,” the company said.

Terminating access revenues continue to decline,

yet transport services still need to be billed and

compensated for. Originating access is still around,

and while it’s only a fraction of CABS traffic, it is still

incrementally valuable, especially toll-free traffic.

Reciprocal compensation rates shrink with termi-

nating end office rate reductions, but costs for

processing CABS stays static, whether providers keep

it in-house or outsource it. Smaller LECs and CLECs,

and soon larger ones, will start to wonder if switched

CABS is even still worth doing. Unless every carrier

decides to stop billing, and unless the costs of long-

distance origination and tandem transit also become

zero, well, just not billing CABS really isn’t an option.

“In answer to this growing issue, we have tailored a

unique product that benefits small and evenmid-

sized carriers and can give new or extended beneficial

life to CABS,”the company said.“Think in terms of

lifecycle CDR management, of which CABS is only

one internal customer, where the nested expenses

of other CDR outputs like retail billing, compliance

(CALEA), data warehousing and business intelligence,

and revenue assurance bear the expense or partial

expense of generating CABS.”

There’s also the nested cost of regulatory and

tariff consulting, disputes and collections, access

cost management, circuit billing (TDM, Metro

Ethernet and backhaul) and inventory, wholesale

billing and contract management, and revenue

assurance and fraud management, all of which still

must take place and can be bundled into a service

which spreads and reduces cost across all.

Data Tech’s product offers these options and can

carry out CABS billing less than monthly – bimonthly

or even quarterly.

“Think repurposing seasoned key staff who

have supported CABS and related services and in

whom your company also has a great investment

and high equity and wants/needs to keep around,”

the company said. “When you think of those things,

think ROI...think experience....think Data Tech. We

continue to grow while others shrink, our compe-

tencies are broad enough to weather the impacts

of ICC reform and our partners are great and

strong. We will be here tomorrow.”

Customers of all sizes use the company.

“It was important to choose a company towork

with fromour inception to guide us through the

complexities of being a CLEC,”saidNeil Rosenblit, CEO

at Local AccessTelecom.“After many interviews and

careful consideration, it was clear after talkingwith Jon

Jones andDataTech, they were the right company for

us. Jon and his teamhave assisted Local Access in a

wide variety of projects frombilling, strategic planning

and collections, and has always been responsive and

professional throughout our years together. I would

highly recommend any company looking to improve

their efficiencies to consider Jon and his highly skilled

team, and utilize the services DataTech provides.”

Meanwhile, Mickey Henry, senior counsel at

EarthLink Business, added,“We hired Jon/Data Tech

to help us get our CLEC CABS billings in order after

several years of relative neglect. He has been very

creative, has a deep understanding of the CABS Billing

industry, and has been great to work with.”