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Q w e s t W h o l e s a l e M
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Billing Options
The Qwest CLEC Forum September 16-17, 2002
The information provided on every slide in the
following presentation is for training purposes
only. The information provided does not create or
modify any legal obligations, promises or
expectations between Qwest and CLEC customer. The
parties relationship is governed by existing
legal obligations and contracts.
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Agenda

• Qwest Billing Systems
• CRIS Paper Bills
• BillMate ASCII Bills Demo
• BillMate EDI Bills
• BOS Bills for UNE
• QA

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Qwest Billing Systems

• IABS Integrated Access Billing System
• BART Billing and Receivable Tracking
• CRIS Customer Records Information System

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Qwest IABS Billing

• Services billed by IABS include
• Collocation (monthly recurring charges)
• Resale Frame Relay Service
• Local Interconnection Service (LIS)
• Unbundled Dedicated Interoffice Transport (UDIT)
• Common Channel Signaling Access
  Capability/Signaling System 7 (CCSAC/SS7)
• Unbundled Dark Fiber (UDF)

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Qwest BART Billing

• Services billed by BART include
• CLEC Requested UNE Construction (CRUNEC)
• Collocation Construction Charges
• Unbundled Dark Fiber (UDF)

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Qwest CRIS Billing

• Services billed by CRIS include
• Basic Business/Residence Resale Services
• Centrex Resale
• ISDN-PRI
• Loops
• Unbundled Network Element Platform (UNE-P POTS)
• Focus of todays discussion

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CRIS Paper Bills

• Traditional Bill of Record
• BillMate EDI can also serve as Bill of Record
• Option to suppress with availability of BillMate
  EDI format
• Billing Features
• Summary Billing
• Sub-Account Billing

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Billing Features

• Summary Billing
• Allows management of financials at the Summary
  Billing Level
• Provides one bill per month for multiple accounts
  within the same state
• Sub-Account Billing
• Allows identification of rates and charges for
  services ordered for each end-user

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Paper Bill Sections

• Summary Bill Sections
• Account Detail
• Summary of Services
• Transfer Balances
• Adjustments
• Payments
• Sub-Account Bill Sections
• Monthly Service
• Service Additions and Changes
• Usage
• Adjustments

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ASCII

• American Standard Code for Information
  Interchange (binary character code)
• Electronic billing data arranged into files
  compatible with common business software

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BillMate ASCII Bills

• Majority of CLECs choose this as their electronic
  format
• Delivery methods
• Diskette
• CD ROM
• Web

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BillMate ASCII to CRIS Paper Bill Comparison
Summary of Services
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BillMate ASCII to CRIS Paper Bill Comparison
ASCIIMONSERV.DET (Summary)
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BillMate ASCII to CRIS Paper Bill Comparison
ASCIISUBACCT.SUM
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BillMate ASCII to CRIS Paper Bill Comparison
ASCIISUBACCT.SUM
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BillMate ASCII to CRIS Paper Bill Comparison
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BillMate ASCII to CRIS Paper Bill Comparison
ASCIIMONSERV.DET
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BillMate ASCII to CRIS Paper Bill Comparison
ASCIIMONSERV.DET
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BillMate ASCII to CRIS Paper Bill Comparison
ASCIIACCOUNT.SUM
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BillMate ASCII to CRIS Paper Bill Comparison
ASCIIACCOUNT.SUM
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BillMate ASCII to CRIS Paper Bill Comparison
ASCIISOACTVTY.DET
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BillMate ASCII to CRIS Paper Bill Comparison
ASCIISOACTVTY.DET
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BillMate ASCII to CRIS Paper Bill Comparison
ASCIISOACTVTY.DET (continued)
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BillMate ASCII to CRIS Paper Bill Comparison
XX Phone Company
719-555-1912-114B
ASCIIMEASSVC.DET
719 555 1979
719 555 1984
719 555 1990
719 555 1888
719 555 1912
719 555 1921
719 555 1979
719 555 1984
719 555 1990
719 555 1912
719 555 1921
719 555 1979
719 555 1984
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BillMate ASCII to CRIS Paper Bill Comparison
ASCIIMEASSVC.DET
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BillMate ASCII to CRIS Paper Bill Comparison
ASCIILDMISC.DET
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BillMate ASCII to CRIS Paper Bill Comparison
ASCIILDMISC.DET
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BillMate ASCII Demo

• BillMate ASCII bill files can be easily imported
  into a wide variety of applications for
  validation efforts such as
• Commonly used spreadsheets
• Commonly used databases
• Vendor-specific software

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Sample BillMate ASCII Executable
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BillMate EDI

• Electronic Data Interchange
• Allows electronic communication of invoices
  between organizations in an industry standard
  format
• Third parties provide EDI services that enable
  organizations with different equipment to
  communicate

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BillMate EDI

• EDI messages are designed to be easy for computer
  programs to read, but not so easy for humans to
  read
• Trading partners require translation software to
  convert outgoing data from their business
  applications to EDI format, and to convert
  incoming data from EDI format to the format
  required by their business applications

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EDI Transaction Sets

• Different EDI Transaction Sets (TS) are used for
  different business purposes
• EDI 811 TS for Billing
• Qwest BillMate EDI Billing uses this TS
• EDI 850 TS for Ordering
• Qwest IMA uses this TS

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BillMate EDI Bills

• EDI 811 TS defined by
• TBWG (Telephone Bill Work Group)
• Optional Bill of Record
• Delivery methods
• NDM
• VAN
• FTP
• Web

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EDI Translators

• Many vendors offer EDI solutions
• Vendors offer various suites of EDI products and
  services
• Complete software packages
• Custom EDI solutions
• Outsourced EDI processing
• etc.

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BOS

• Billing Output Specification
• Electronic telecom industry format
• Specifications are maintained by OBF and
  Telcordia

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BOS Bills for UNE

• Newest format offered
• First BOS bills produced in July 02
• Includes both Bill and CSR data
• UNE-P POTS bills only at this time
• Loop bills available by end of year 2002
• Delivery method
• NDM

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BillMate EDI and BOS Compared

• EDI
• Industry standard electronic format designed for
  computer consumption
• Used in many industries
• Billing TS maintained by Telephone Bill Work
  Group (TBWG) under the auspices of ANSI ASC X12

• BOS
• Industry standard electronic format designed for
  computer consumption
• Specific to telecommunications billing
• Standards maintained by OBF and Telcordia

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Establishing/Changing Bill Formats

• BillMate ASCII and BillMate EDI
• New Customer Questionnaire - Section 2.5
• http//www.qwest.com/wholesale/clecs/newcustquesti
  onnaire.html
• BOS
• UNE-P Amendment Questionnaire - Section 2.4
• http//www.qwest.com/wholesale/clecs/negotiations.
  html

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Additional Resources

• Qwest Wholesale main web page http//www.qwest.co
  m/wholesale/
• Qwest Wholesale CRIS web pagehttp//www.qwest.co
  m/wholesale/clecs/cris.html
• Qwest BillMate web page (for ASCII and EDI
  documentation)http//www.qwest.com/pcat/large_bu
  siness/product/1,1354,540_4_8-6,00.html or can
  be accessed from Qwest Wholesale CRIS web page
• Telcordia (for BOS documentation) at 800-521-2673
• As always, contact your Billing Service Delivery
  Coordinators (SDCs) with any specific bill
  content questions or concerns

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Question Answer
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