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Anthony Francis wrote:
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Atis Lezdins wrote:
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<pre wrap="">When i started to
write this implementation, luckily i didn't had much expertise in
telephony, so i did it from programmers point of view. There's even
funny story about this in our company - we had some "Project managers"
and "Development managers" hired later who had lots of experience in
telephony, and at some point when discussing some minor problems with
my implementation, they told me that this is not the way how to do it.
Telco's do all processing at end of month, so this system won't last
for long. Currenty everybody in our company probably would be very
disappointed if they wouldn't be able to see fresh data in reports
immediately.
Regards,
Atis
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<pre wrap=""><!---->Just because that is the way Telco's do it doesn't mean that it is the
way it SHOULD be done, there is always room for improvement and fresh
ideas. I also believe near realtime CDR is not only possible but should
be used, the only thing I do once a month is long distance consolidation
for billing, I use multiple LD carriers and all of their monthly records
need to be normalized and consolidated with our records.
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I don't think that all Telco's are using the same procedure for billing.<br>
Sometimes they use both. There are Telco's that provide pre-paid<br>
services (calling cards, pre-paid mobile services etc) and their calls<br>
have to be billed in real-time mode. The same Telco can use a CDR<br>
aggregation model to bill their post-paid customers.<br>
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Apostolos Pantsiopoulos
Kinetix Tele.com R & D
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