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- CHARGING SUPPLEMENTARY SERVICES
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- 1. Credit card calling services (under study)
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- Recommendation Q.86
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- CHARGING SUPPLEMENTARY SERVICES
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- 1. Credit card calling service
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- Under study.
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- 2. Advice of Charge supplementary service (AOC)
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- Advice of charge is a service allowing the user paying for a call to be
- informed of usage-based charging information. This service is not meant to
- replace the charge meeting inside the network which is considered to be the correct
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- This service may include one or more of the following cases:
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- A) charging information at the end of a call;
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- B) charging information during a call;
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- C) charging information at call setup time.
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- 2.1 General
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- 2.1.1 Charging information at the end of the call
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- The possibility for a user to receive charging information for a call
- when the call is released.
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- 2.1.2 Charging information during a call
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- The possibility for a user to receive charging information for a call
- during the active phase of the call.
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- 2.1.3 Charging information at call setup time
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- The possibility for a user to receive information about the charging
- rates at call setup time and possible change of charging rates during the call.
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- 2.2 Description
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- 2.2.1 Charging information at the end of a call
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- 2.2.1.1 General description
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- This case of the supplementary service provides the user with charging
- information for a call when the call is released. The charging information may
- consist of a number of information units such as:
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- - case of Advice of Charge
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- - charging at the end of a call
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- - type of charging
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- - free of charge
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- - charged amount information
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- - used number of charging units
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- - used duration
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- - used volume
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- - used number of times (Note)
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- - charging rate information
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- - price per time unit and time units
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- - price per volume unit and volume units
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- - price per number of times unit and number of times unit
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- - duration per charging unit and charging units
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- - volume per charging unit and charging units
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- - number of time units per charging unit and charging
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- Note - Number of times should be used, e.g. to charge a certain number of
- supplementary service invocations.
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- - usage charge element
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- - registration
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- - call attempt
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- - invocation
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- - duration
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- - volume
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- - network processing
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- - billing identification
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- - normal charging
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- - reverse charging
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- - credit card charging
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- The selection of these values are a national matter.
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- 2.2.1.2 Specific terminology
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- Not applicable.
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- 2.2.1.3 Qualifications on the applicability to telecommunication services
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- This supplementary service is applicable to all telecommunication
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- 2.2.2 Charging information during a call
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- 2.2.2.1 General description
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- This case of the supplementary service provides the user with
- information that may be either incremental or cumulative and will be sent automatically
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- The charging information may consist of a number of information units
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- - case of Advice of Charge (AOC)
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- - incremental charging during a call, or
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- - cumulative charging during a call
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- - type of charging
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- - free of charge
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- - charged amount information
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- - used number of charging units
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- - used duration
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- - used volume
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- - used number of times (Note)
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- - charging rate information
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- - price per time unit and time units
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- - price per volume unit and volume units
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- - price per number of times unit and number of times unit
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- - duration per charging unit and charging units
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- - volume per charging unit and charging units
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- - number of time units per charging unit and charging
- units
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- Note - Number of times should be used, e.g. to charge a certain number of
- supplementary service invocations.
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- - usage charge element
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- - registration
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- - call attempt
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- - invocation
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- - duration
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- - volume
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- - network processing
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- - billing identification
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- - normal charging
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- - reverse charging
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- - credit card charging
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- 2.2.2.2 Specific terminology
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- Not applicable.
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- 2.2.2.3 Applicability to telecommunication services
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- This supplementary service is applicable to all telecommunication
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- 2.2.3 Charging information at call setup time
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- 2.2.3.1 General description
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- This case of the supplementary service provides the user with the
- possibility to receive information about the charging rates at call
- establishment. In addition, the user will be informed if a change in charging rates
- takes place during the call. The charging information may consist of a
- number of information units such as:
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- - case of Advice of Charge
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- - charging rate information
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- - type of charging
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- - free of charge
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- - charging rate information
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- - price per time unit and time units
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- - price per volume unit and volume units
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- - price per number of times unit and number of times unit
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- - duration per charging unit and charging units
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- - volume per charging unit and charging units
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- - number of time units per charging unit and charging
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- - usage charge element
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- - registration
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- - call attempt
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- - invocation
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- - duration
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- - volume
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- - network processing
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- - billing identification
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- - normal charging
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- - reverse charging
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- - credit card charging
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- 2.2.3.2 Specific terminology
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- Not applicable.
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- 2.2.3.3 Applicability to telecommunication services
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- This supplementary service is applicable to all telecommunication
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- 2.3. Derivation of a functional model
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- The model used for illustrating the Advice of Charge (AOC)
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- 4) Scenario - Charging information provided from a charging centre via
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- FIGURE 2-1/Q.86
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- Model for the Advice of Charge supplementary service
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- 2.4 Information flow diagrams
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- This Recommendation does not describe which information is to be
- provided in each case because it is considered to be a network dependent
- matter whether the information is provided, e.g. as charging units or as
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- It is assumed that the coding of the Charge Advice Information (CAI) is
- done in such a way that whenever this information is received by a user, the
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- 2.4.1 Information flows for charging at the end of a call
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- FIGURE 2-2/Q.86 (1 of 2)
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- Advice of charge, functions and information flows
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