The cost of a usage record is determined by the marketing pricing plan that you have assigned to each service number. Service numbers are established and pricing plans (both retail and wholesale) are assigned to customer accounts in the Customer Management component. Cost can be computed by any of the following methods:
SID (System Identification) for wireless
CIC (Carrier Identification Code)
LATA/OCN
Originating/terminating LATA
NPA
State (outbound and inbound)
Distance (Mileage/V&H) for domestic usage
Originating country
A- and B-leg rating
Country or Country-plus-dialed-digits (i.e., regions and city codes) for domestic-to-international usage
Bands (originating and terminating dialed digits) as used in the world wide market
Dialed digits
Occurrence
Minutes
Total Occurrences
Markup Cost %
Default
Pricing plans can be defined using a mixture of these costing methods for maximum flexibility. A default costing method can be defined for each pricing plan to minimize data entry, prevent usage records from becoming unrateable, and increase the readability of pricing plans.