Purchasing updated tariff tables is a good investment today more than ever. Tariffs enhance the value of your call accounting system by providing more accurate reporting. Accurate call accounting reports will impact how you allocate telecommunications costs, and will assist in pinpointing misuse and abuse, as well as track abusive calls. This will result in reduced costs and increased employee productivity.

Call Accounting Reporting

Without updated tariff tables, city names for new exchanges and state names for new area codes will be missing on reports, resulting in incorrect reporting and making it harder to identify specific call patterns, pinpoint abuse and accurately cost calls. Updated tariffs provide a way to compare your call accounting usage reports against your actual carrier bills and help identify billing errors.

Local Exchanges

Throughout the US, thousands of local exchanges are added every year. Updated tariff tables will identify these exchanges, ensuring the accurate identification of calling patterns to track misuse, abuse and fraud.

Area Codes

Similar to the local exchanges described above, 177 new area codes have been implemented since 1995, affecting thousands of local exchanges. For more information about the North American Numbering Plan Administration (NANPA), visit www.nanpa.com. Without tariff updates accounting for the new area codes, your call accounting system will not properly identify calls to these areas as local or long distance, producing inaccurate call costing.

Flat Rate/Negotiated Long Distance Rates

More and more organizations are utilizing flat rate costing, with volume discounts for long distance calls. Under this scenario, accurate tariffs are key to determining interstate, intrastate, interlata and intralata calls for accurate call costing.

Tariff Tables from ISI

ISI provides more than 170 standard tariff tables. New tariffs are added all the time, so contact your ISI account rep to see if yours is covered.