Over the coming weeks, many carriers will try to evaluate what terms they should be advocating to the FCC for Inter-Carrier Compensation Reform. Should you sign on to one organization or company’s proposal? It is hard to identify the commonalities, especially when a cornerstone assumption that is true today may not be true tomorrow.

Many carriers set up their billing and recording processes when their business plans were in their infancy and never returned to evaluate these processes in later years. The assumptions used to originally set up these systems may or may not have taken into consideration the current business plan. Further, the service provider could have established procedures without having a full set of requirements.