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Rating
Matters
A collection of information resources on rating & billing
Rating RFP Resources
A Model Rating RFP Questionnaire
An HTML document containing more than seven hundred questions about the features and functionality of a rating system. Use it to create your request for proposal (RFP). Permission to copy and include in new documents is granted to all persons.
In HTML (335kb)
In Microsoft WORD format (220kb) ZIP file (53kb)
Rating RFP Template (335 kb)
Rating Matters Newsletters (click to subscribe)
| A TESTIMONIAL Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 6:32 AM To: Carl Wright Subject: Thanks Carl Hi Carl, I am Anchal from India . I am into Telecom Domain since 1 year ago. I have been to your site and have read "Rating Matters" . They are really amazing. The way you have explained is incredible. Especially the Issue No.6, 8 and 12. I just want to thank you for writing so simply and clear-cut . It really helps newcomers like us who have just entered in Telecom Domain. You are such a boon for newcomers like us. Thanks a lot. Regards, Anchal Gandotra |
Adventures in Rounding - Issue No. 1
Making A Bundle with Bundling (Part 1) - Issue No. 2
A Little Christmas Present - Issue No. 3
Making A Bundle with Bundling (Part 2) - Issue No. 4
Other Issues with Bundling (Part 3) - Issue No. 5
What is Rating? What is Billing? - Issue No. 6
The Injustice of Volume Discounting - Issue No. 7
Charging for the Wireless Internet - Issue No. 8
Clash of the Titans (Real-time Rating versus Batch) - Issue No. 9
When is Slippage and Breakage Good for Profits? - Issue No. 10
Give Me That Old Time Relationship - Issue No. 11
Program Code Based vs. Table-driven vs. Rule-based Rating - Issue No. 12
ISP Bandwidth Billing - How To Make More or Pay Less - Issue No. 13
A Second Serving of Percentile Billing - Issue No. 14
Block of Time Rating - Issue No. 15
Why a Day isn't Always 24 Hours Long - Issue No. 16
Preventing Duplicates - Issue No. 17
A Happy Cog in the Machine - Issue No. 18Calculating Quality of Service (QoS) and Charging For It (coming soon)
Who Needs Real-Time Rating? (coming soon)
Why Does Everyone Hate Their Billing System? (coming soon)
Rating Support For Revenue Opportunities With GPRS & UMTS Services (A White Paper)
Give
Me That Old Time, Real Relationship (.pdf)
An article in the October 2002 issue of the Billing
magazine. It is related to Issue no. 11 of Rating Matters.
Next-Gen
Rating (.pdf)
An article in
the February 2003 issue of Billing World & OSS Today magazine. Carl Wright
was proud to help Susana Schwartz with this article.
The ISP Business
A View of Issues Facing the ISP Business
Techniques of the Rating Masters tutorial description
A Story of Database Marketing and Rating
A PowerPoint presentation on MCI's Friends & Family Program
A PowerPoint presentation on the market impact of MCI's legendary marketing program. Friends & Family remains one of the most compelling examples of a rating plan and marketing effort creating revenues for a company. Most examples also involve new services and new network equipment. This plan created value for MCI solely based on a new way of charging for the services.
Northern Telecom contributions
In 1995 Northern Telecom published two tutorials about North American Telephony that remain valuable, even if they are dated. These are the copyrighted property of Northern Telecom.
Long Distance 101 - A basic introduction to how long distance is delivered in North America and opportunities for Network Providers in the long distance arena (.ZIP file with .pdf files inside - 680k)
Telephony 101 - A basic introduction to how Telephone Services are delivered in North America (.pdf file- 700k)
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