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Accurate Local Calling Area Tables and Databases - Updated Subscriber Line Charge Rates - Precise Telecom MTA Data

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CLECs are confronting an unprecedented threat to increasing profits. Fragmented telecom billing systems and uncertain regulations make reducing billing errors a high priority. Competition from traditional and new providers require that CLECs re-evaluate their conventional revenue models.

Tele-Tech's databases can improve your CLEC billing system and help you develop cost-effective strategies to increase revenues by assisting in:

• Stopping telecom billing errors and revenue leakage

• Maximizing earnings from subscriber line charges

• Strengthening Carrier Access Billing Systems (CABS)

• Resolving intercarrier billing disputes and settlement issues

• Eliminating avoidable access charges on wireless originated calls

• Decreasing customer churn

Breath new life into your profitability with Tele-Tech's Local Calling Area, subscriber line charge and MTA data.

LCA Solutions

Increase revenues by determining the local calling area for any point in the U.S. to ensure you're applying access fees where appropriate instead of lower reciprocal compensation rates. Give your revenues a boost in one simple step by assessing which calls are local with Tele-Tech's Localizer, the most accurate local calling area database available.

Accurately bill end-users and interconnecting carriers while staying in compliance with tariff filings. Reduce costs caused by telecom billing errors with data that identifies originating and terminating NPA/NXX pairs that are local to each other.

Improve the efficiency of your carrier access billing system (CABS) by identifying local calls early in the mediation process and lower the volume of usage data that goes to mediation. Tele-Tech's local calling area tables can decrease errors and shorten mediation to billing time making your CABS process more productive.

Reduce costs associated with resolving intercarrier billing disputes by being able to produce hard data that identifies local calls instead of relying on PLU factors or data from another carrier. Identifying the jurisdiction of traffic on your network will enable you to negotiate better interconnection agreements.

Tele-Tech's local calling area tables give you the tools to increase revenues, reduce costs and utilize network resources more effectively. With over 10,000 NPA/NXX changes each month and 4,000 updates to local calling areas nationwide, our data is continuously evaluated to ensure you get the most accurate and timely information available.

SLC Solutions

Outdated subscriber line rates create billing headaches that can seriously hurt your bottom line. If your wholesale provider's rates go up and you don't adjust your subscriber line charges accordingly the revenue losses can add up quickly. LEC rates and tariffs change frequently causing billing errors that devastate your pricing strategies. Reduce billing errors and maximize earnings from subscriber line charges by ensuring you have the most current rates with Tele-Tech's SLC Index.

Searching through lengthy tariffs for each of your underlying carrier's rates is time consuming and confusing. Are you confident your staff has the expertise to accurately interpret complicated tariff language that can change from one state to another? Can you risk the loss of revenue because a tariff update was missed?

Tele-Tech's SLC Index is comprised of tariff data gathered by our expert researchers. Free-up your valuable staff resources to work on your core business by capitalizing on Tele-Tech's 30 years of tariff research experience.

Billing mistakes can drive customers to competitors at lightning speed. Repeated calls to customer service about incorrect phone bills frustrate your customers and waste valuable customer service time. The cost of each error is compounded by adjustments at every stage in the billing process. Keep your customers satisfied and make your billing process more productive by improving your billing accuracy.

Tele-Tech's SLC Index provides the most accurate and updated tariff and LEC rates available. Set your monthly line charge rates with data that keeps your revenues up and billing errors down.

MTA Solutions

Paying unnecessary access charges on wireless-originated calls that should have been considered local is an expensive oversight. Calls within the wide-ranging MTAs (Major Trading Areas) are local for intercarrier billing purposes and are not subject to access charges. Some MTAs contain over 10,000 NPA NXXs and span five states. Do you know the MTA boundaries?

Get the facts you need from MTA IQ by associating each NPA NXX with a FCC mandated MTA and Basic Trading Area (BTA).

MTA will also help you negotiate better terms in your interconnection agreements with reliable data about the wireless-originated traffic on your network. Identify the percentage of local traffic by easily comparing the MTA number of the originating NPA NXX and the MTA number of terminating NPA NXX. Turn the negotiating table to your advantage with Tele-Tech's MTA IQ.

Tele-Tech's telecom billing data answers the question "Is it local?"  Call us today for answers to your local calling data questions.

Our CLEC customers use our local calling area data to:

	ensure appropriate intercarrier billing in their CABS processes;
	process the DUF to ensure accurate billing to customers;
	analyze the incumbent's offerings when designing new calling plans;
	provide accurate local calling area info to customers and potential customers through sales and customer care channels

Various off-the-shelf extractions are available from our master local calling area database.

	Which NPA-NXXs are local to each other? Clients can determine the inbound and/or outbound local calling area of any point in the U.S. or Canada using our "Localizer". This set of flat files with a simple record layout of NPA-NXXs that are local to each other is easily imported into standard database management software packages. (subscription info) (contact us for more details)
	Which rate centers are local to each other? Clients can find local calling relationships on a rate center-to-rate center basis using our Local SQL Database. This flexible Microsoft SQL database can be taken to the NPA-NXX level when combined with our NPA-NXX Trac database. (subscription info) (contact us for more details)
	Are calls from a wireless device local? MTA IQ enables subscribers to determine whether calls from a wireless device are local for intercarrier billing purposes. The database gives the MTA and CLLI code for each NPA-NXX in the U.S. (subscription info) (contact us for more details)
	What are LEC rates for subscriber line charges ? SLC Index gives clients the most updated subscriber line charges for the three largest LECs in each state.  This database gives CLECs vital information to set competitive monthly line charges that keeps your pricing on track and reduces billing errors. (subscription info) (contact us for more details)