<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>If (MOU >= 10000 AND entitybillsyou=True) {goto Checkinto-CABS-billing-providers}<div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Else {exit}</div><div><br></div><div>?<br><div><span name="x"></span><br><br>-----<br>Mike Hammett<br>Intelligent Computing Solutions<br>http://www.ics-il.com<br><br><br><br>Midwest Internet Exchange<br>http://www.midwest-ix.com<br><br><span name="x"></span><br></div><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"BackUP Telecom Consulting" <marylou@backuptelecom.com><br><b>To: </b>"Mike Hammett" <voiceops@ics-il.net><br><b>Cc: </b>voiceops@voiceops.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, July 5, 2018 2:47:51 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [VoiceOps] CABS\Intercarrier Compensation Billing<br><br>Intercarrier CABS billing has to do with the charges that carriers bill <br>each other for use of their network. It used to be that all facilities <br>based carriers could charge for any PSTN traffic terminating on their <br>switch or any toll free traffic originating from their switch. The rules <br>were changed in 2017 so now facilities-based carriers cannot charge for <br>end office switching - only tandem switching and dip charges.<br><br>Whether to bill for it or not has always been based on the amount of <br>traffic the facilities-based carrier has. Most carriers who have a <br>significant amount of traffic to bill for use a CABS billing service and <br>it doesn't really pay to do that unless you have 10,000 MOU (minutes of <br>use) per month. There are also a few things to consider when determining <br>whether you want to bill. Most wireless carriers try to establish bill <br>and keep agreements so if a lot of your traffic is traversing their <br>networks, you can bet they are going to want to negotiated that away. <br>You also have to remember that if you're billing a company that isn't <br>billing you, it gives them reason to start billing you so you have to <br>evaluate all those components when deciding whether or not to go that <br>route. The top 3 companies that do CABS billing are:<br><br>Kadence<br>http://www.gokadence.com/<br><br>MAC<br>https://maccnet.com/services/billing-solutions/<br><br>UDP<br>http://www.udp.com/<br><br>Mary Lou Carey<br><br>BackUP Telecom Consulting<br><br>Office: 615-771-7868 (temporary)<br><br>Cell: 615-796-1111<br><br>On 2018-07-05 02:19 PM, Mike Hammett wrote:<br>> My client is asking me to setup CABS billing for them. I only really<br>> see this being relevant to inter-carrier compensation. Where can I<br>> find more resources about how that works?<br>> <br>> Is inter-carrier compensation is something we'd be billing the tandem<br>> operator or each company sending us calls?<br>> <br>> Note: I'm primarily a data\SIP guy, but I've been thrown into telco<br>> hell.<br>> <br>> -----<br>> Mike Hammett<br>> Intelligent Computing Solutions<br>> http://www.ics-il.com<br>> <br>> Midwest Internet Exchange<br>> http://www.midwest-ix.com<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> VoiceOps mailing list<br>> VoiceOps@voiceops.org<br>> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops<br></div><br></div></div></body></html>