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Ya dear Me too same problem

I need some Architecture explanation of prepaid and postpaid billing systems

Can anyone help me. Please please

thanx in advannce

Dear members,

which interface are you using? Gy?

Regards.

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This is explanation of how companies bill for telephone and data services, information services, and non-communication products and services. Billing and customer care systems convert the bits and bytes of digital information within a network into the money that will be received by the service provider.
Also you must understand what is mean by Billing
Billing
Charging Charging is the process of collecting data to enable monitoring of resource usage, accounting, and/or billing... is the process of processing and rendering a bill...Billing... and Charging for Packet Networks Packet networks such as GPRS have a significant impact as the charging system must be able...
Telecoms Billing System Solution
The billing system is responsible for tracking customer usage of services, and calculates the impact on a customer's account, based on the price of the services. Billing systems have come to include non-core functionality such as customer management, integration with payment gateways, and statistical analysis.

These days? service providers need to be responsive to customer needs and allow for the introduction of new, exciting services. Billing must now be compassioned about the customers.

Telecom Billing Functionalities

# Customer care management: such as Account setup, Customer profile and Service provisioning. .

# Marketing management: Products setup and Packages setup.

# Inventory management: such as Numbers, Devices, IP addresses, Products and Contents.

# Rating: such as Price plans, Packages, Rates and Tariffs. .

# Billing and invoicing: such as Invoicing, Payments, Account receivable, Collection management, Credit management and General ledger management

# Mediation: such as UDR, EDR and CDR collection, Service provisioning and Fraud management.

# Roaming: such as Roaming management (TAP and CIBER), Interconnect management and Partner management.

  Telecom Billing Process

Billing for Telecom services not only requires provisioning the service with a carrier/provider but also provision the service within the billing system. From Telecom service creation and classification to provisioning the service internally; importing CDRs from multiple sources and rating to billing and bill presentment (sending invoices to end customers); the EngageIP Telecom Billing system allows service providers to efficiently manage and accurately bill all aspects of end customer Telecom usage.

Telecom Billing CDR Flow

Telecom Fraud Management and Leakage Free CDR Rating

With its robust authentication and rating capabilities, EngageIP Telecom Billing enables Internet Telephony Service Providers (ITSP) to make the most of their service offerings while protecting valuable revenue streams through its fraud management capabilities, leakage free CDR rating and revenue assurance functionality.

Leakage Free CDR Rating

Local Call Detection

Calls are categorized as Local, Regional, National or International. Regional and National minute buckets are defined at the service level and can be individually tweaked for each phone line. The system allows for late detection and rejection of local calls, if you discover they are leaking through.

For example, ABCtel offers local Telecom service to the Fort Myers area. Marketing wants to offer Regional free minute buckets in LATAs bordering Fort Myers and a National free minute bucket for US calls.

Local Call Detection

Telecom Rating Architecture

Advanced rating system is more dynamic than traditional rating tables. Providers converting their rate plans can have up to 70% fewer price points to manage and with less chance of revenue leakage. Old style LERG tables have been upgraded to a geography tree. Rates can be attached anywhere on the tree. Rates can be configured with any desired granularity, be it one rate for a country or fine tuned down to individual long distance dialing patterns.

Telecom Rating Table (Lerg)

Telecom Billing Features

    * Rate, provision and bill Telecom, VOD and IP bandwidth usage
    * Easily manage our highly configurable rating environment
    * Drive rating with: WTN, DID, SIP or MAC address
    * Process multiple carrier CDR formats simultaneously
    * Access all data stored within a central database
    * Programmable rating process allows for pre and post rating integration with other applications
    * Program CDR rating process: pre-rating scrubber, CDR filter and post-rating processor
    * Build rate plans with 70% fewer price points through its advanced architecture
    * Built in enhanced LERG table (geography tree)
    * Control revenue assurance with built in processes and controls
    * Handle all international mobile revenue safely
    * Leak free CDR processing with supporting statistical logs
    * Support free minute bucket discounting
    * Local call detection manages nation wide local call boundaries

You can find out more detail of telecommunication functions and the company in the website below: 

Hi,

Wonderful information!!!!!!!

The discussed process is very help full to know the billing procedure.

Is there any chances of fake billing that can happen?

Thanks
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