Communication Service Providers (CSP) receive invoices from interexchange carriers, wireless carriers, IP network providers, content providers and other partners under contract. The costs of these services must be audited and controlled to optimize cash flow to the bottom line. At the same time, millions of dollars are lost in carrier access billing errors, unrecorded long distance minutes of use (MOU) and reciprocal compensation errors and incorrect invoices from trading partners.
Partner Revenue Assurance (also referred to as Partner Access Billing Reconciliation) enables Communication Service Providers to validate invoices from and to third-party partners for all contracted reciprocal compensation and switched access revenues to which they are entitled.
Ascertain subject matter experts are conversant with FCC-commissioned reforms regarding this important area of revenue loss, however, our experience has demonstrated that costs escalate due to phantom and by-pass traffic (traffic terminating your network without compensation), internal problems due to switch and trunking errors, outdated dial plan data, and faulty business logic.
Through the use of Ascertain® Inter-Carrier Reconciliation (ICR), operators can address these problems by reprocessing raw network data, such as AMA, as well as interconnection partner EMI files and invoices, to identify where they are being over- or under-billed and where the CSP is billing partners accurately as illustrated in the diagram below:
Partner Revenue Assurance
Ascertain® ICR provides customized reports with easily accessible executive dashboards, enabling management to identify, track and analyze partner billing discrepancies. Business intelligence reports are sorted by partner, carrier, MOU, division, service or product and timeline.
A series of configurable reports provide line item details from the partner carrier dashboards. Depending upon the type of issue uncovered, the reports can filter the information by region, division, tandem, LATA, Partner, etc.
Benefits to Our Clients
When Ascertain® experts work with you to ensure partner revenue assurance, we typically identify revenue leakage and cost savings up to 10%.
We can help your company decrease costs and recover revenue through:
- Automated and scheduled reconciliation of your inter-carrier invoices ensuring all revenues are collected.
- Flexible and configurable reporting, including audit trail validation of identified invoice and billing issues.
- Optimized cash flow through elimination of revenue leakage.