"In the first month, we
billed an additional $140,000 that previously would have been
left on the table, and that's just in the 12 states we used as a
test."
-Jon Jones,
Director of Billing Operations,
KMC Telecom
Telecom Companies Other Triple Play :
-Increasing
Revenues
-Reducing Costs
-Retaining Customers
Mistakenly identifying long distance
calls as local or billing at low reciprocal compensation rates when
higher access fees could apply can seriously affect your bottom
line. Increase your revenuesin one simple step by assessing which
calls are local with an accurate local calling area database.
Setting monthly line charges can be a
tricky balancing act if you don't have updated LEC rates and PUC
requirements. Digging through complicated tariffs consumes precious
resources and cuts into your bottom line. Develop pricing
strategies that will increase revenues and maximize profits with the
most current and accurate monthly line charge data.
Immediately reduce errors by billing
with a reliable local calling area database instead of relying on
PLU factors or using the data from another carrier as a make-shift
resource for what’s local. Reduce the costsassociated with
resolving expensive billing disputes by being able to produce
hard data that identifies local calls.
Retain customers by billing them right the
first time with accurate local calling data. Save valuable
programming time and resources, increase productivity in your back
office and improve customer care while building long-lasting
customer relationships.
Make sure subscribers who switch to a
VoIP phone serviceor new wireless plan don't have to deal with
complaints from loved ones about long distance rates they're
suddenly paying to keep in touch. Keep customers happy by assigning the right local phone
number with a unique database that matches zip codes to area code
and exchange.
"Adding Tele-Tech's
Localizer to our processing resulted in approximately 70% fewer
errors on our long distance billing. Our error rate dropped
from three percent to less than one percent."
-Kerry Pollard
Manager of Usage Billing,
Birch Telecom
When your
local calling area data is wrong, it’s not one mistake…It’s
one mistake times thousands, millions, or even billions
of calls.
Tele-Tech understands that accuracy is your highest
priority when choosing a local calling area
database. Our telecom data is compiled from the
industry’s most credible sources including local
tariffs, public utility commissions, NANPA,
NECA and others. Decades of working with
industry insiders have earned Tele-Tech’s
experienced researchers access to valuable
information not always found in published tariffs
which enables us to provide
you with local calling area data our competitors
don’t have.
Our local calling
area data accuracy statistics are posted on
Tele-Tech’s website each month. These clear, concise
and easy to understand stats provide the knowledge
needed to be confident the data you’re receiving is
of the highest quality. Go to
http://www.telecomdb.com/Quality/index.htm
to see why more telecom industry professionals trust
Tele-Tech data.
Telecom’s most
enterprising and diverse companies choose Tele-Tech.
Our clients represent market segments that include:
Local Exchange
Carriers
Telecom Billing
Services
Internet Service
Providers
Telemanagement
Software Vendors
Routing and
Switch Vendors
Mediation
Services
Revenue Assurance
Services
Call Accounting
Service Bureaus
Industry
professionals rely on Tele-Tech’s local calling area
databases for accurate
CABS,
wireless,
and end-user
billing, mediation
services and dispute resolution. Industry experts
count on Tele-Tech’s array of telecom databases to
complete
rating functions
in calling accounting and communications management
software, and to program
call routing.
Choose from
Tele-Tech’s varied selection of nationwide or
state-by-state local calling area databases to
increase revenues, reduce costs and retain
customers. Several formats and service plans are
available including off-the-shelf extractions, quick
Internet downloads, licensed installations to your
LAN or customized packages designed to your
specifications.
Localizer
Tele-Tech’s most popular local calling area
database
designed by a LEC for seamless fit.
This set of flat files output originating
and terminating NPA-NXX pairs that identify
local calls and includes a “free indicator”
field. The free indicator denotes calls
where no usage charges apply. Telecom
providers can opt for additional fields
including rate center name, wireless
indicator, zone, mileage, expanded local
calling area and optional local calling area
plans. Localizer easily imports into
standard database management software
packages.
Zip-Tel helps providers assign
phone numbers that ensure calls
Zip-Tel helps
providers assign phone numbers that ensure
calls from
friends, family and business associates to
customer's VoIP and wireless phones are
local. In addition, if a particular VoIP
calling plan differentiates between local
and long distance calls, subscribers want to
be sure they can still call their local
associates without incurring long distance
charges. Zip-Tel is a unique database that
matches each zip code to an area code and
exchange enabling service providers to
assign the right local number to meet your
subscribers' specific needs. And with the
NPA NXX for a zip code identified,
Tele-Tech's standard Localizer makes
determining the local calling area simple
and accurate.
Local SQL
This database uses MS
SQL tables to show the rate center-to-rate
center local calling area relationship as
defined by the LECs. This flexible database
can be taken to the NPA-NXX level when
combined with our NPA-NXX Trac database. The
choice for customers looking to store local
calling area data in a flexible and
normalized format.
Multi-Pac 4.0
Designed for customers who need the speed
and ease of the Internet to create custom
Text-Pacs. Select the NPA NXX, rate and
jurisdiction information, choose the local
calling area type and add long distance
services of your choice to generate the
desired data output option. Within minutes
files are available for download to your
software application.
SLC Index
A subscriber line charge database
comprised of rates for each state's three
largest LECs. Includes rate center name, LEC
company code, NPA, line type, and monthly
line charge with rate group identifier.
Applicable EAS charges as well as recurring
and nonrecurring charges are also included.
Available by state or nationwide.
Tele-JurisdictionAccurately
identifies local and long distance traffic
from a cell tower, MSC, PBX or switch by
identifying the jurisdiction from any
designated NPA NXX to terminating NPA NXXs.
Optimize traffic analysis by separating
calls on their terminating NPA NXXs into
local buckets. The comma delimited file is
easy to import, analyze and program against.
If you need help
designing innovative local calling plans, ensuring compliance with
tariffs and regulations, minimizing risk, and getting ahead in this
complex environment of mergers, buyouts, and changing regulations,
then
download our white papers now to learn how you can become more
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