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STANDARD CONTRACT FORUMTHURSDAY 28TH OCTOBER 2004 AT 13.30
CUSTOMER SUITE, BT CENTRE81 NEWGATE STREET
LONDON EC1A 7AJ
KEITH MITCHINSON
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STANDARD CONTRACT FORUMTHURSDAY 28TH OCTOBER 2004 AT 13.30
AGENDA
1. INTRODUCTION AND NOTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING
2. UPDATE ON 2004 GCR, CREDIT VET AND SCHEDULE 11
3. PPP
4. NTS 3RD PARTY HANDOVER
5. SIA CREDIT VET PROGRESS/OTHER BILLING UPDATES
6. ANY OTHER BUSINESS
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SIA – PLANNED CONTRACT SCHEDULE
•Update to Schedule 143 (Carrier Pre-Selection) being discussed with CPS SAD Implementation Working Group
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2004 GENERAL CONTRACT REVIEW
•BT Review Notice end June 2004
•Six industry Review Notices
•Those six invited to initial scoping meeting held in mid Sept
•Five areas identified: Finance – Pricing – Networks – Products - Contracts
•Initial meetings held on all but Pricing area
•Further meetings planned
•Separate sessions planned for (i) System Alterations and (ii) IA/CPS Operator Assistance
•First industry briefing shortly
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SIA CREDIT VET TIMETABLE - ONE
•Review Notice -> Industry Discussions
•Offer to industry May 02
•Oftel Direction February 03
•Revised proposal to industry group May 03
•Industry discussions June-August
•New Oftel Directions November 03
•“Storyboard” to industry group early March 04
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SIA CREDIT VET TIMETABLE - TWO
March-August Industry Discussions
1 September Launch of BT SIA Credit Policy
Revised Reference Offer
10 September Offer of revised text to existing operators
19 September Reminder letter to existing operators
October Commercial Managers chase existing operators
November Reference to Ofcom?
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SCHEDULE 11 REVIEW PROGRESS (Para 8 of Schedule 11)
•October 2003 Review Notice
•Discussion programme – November 2003 to July(?) 2004Progress/agreement on many areas
Issues re Directory Entry Classification
Progress on change management process
•BT considers sensible to relaunch - industry briefing 25 October 2004
•October 2004 Review Notice this weekConsolidate progress over last year
Resolve Directory Entry Classifications/Change Management issues
New – BT Contact Database; IP guarantees; move to standalone?
•Interconnect notification shortly
•Discussion programme 19 November onwards
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AIT (ARTIFICIAL INFLATION OF TRAFFIC)
•Discussions stem from 2002 General Contract Review
•Extensive industry discussion through to June 2003, leaving BT to action
•As agreed, BT pursued proposals with external legal support
•Meeting with industry 20 September 2004
•BT actioned to prepare draft text
•1 November meeting now cancelled
•26 November meeting ongoing
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PPP Determination & Implementation
28th October 2004
Mick Sharpe BT Wholesale Product Management
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1. Definition of PPP
2. Products affected.
3. Summary of Ofcom Determination
4. Implementation phasesInterim – credit notes
Strategic – systems development
5. Summary
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Definition of PPP
•Product Management, Policy and Planning (PPP) is a term given to the administrative costs incurred by BT as a result of providing narrowband services.
•Charges for narrowband interconnection services, therefore, have two components:
a network based charge for the interconnection service provided over BT's network; and
a PPP charge designed to recover BT's administrative costs of providing the narrowband interconnection service.
•There are two types of PPP charge:
pence per minute ("ppm") - a fixed PPP charge for each interconnection minute; and
FRIACO - a PPP charge per FRIACO port.
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Products Affected
The products affected are: Transit
Interconnect calls
BT – BT calls
Friaco
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Summary of The Determination on Product Management, Policy and Planning
•OFCOM Determination on 30th July
• PPP @ 0.012ppm (from 0.0438ppm) applicable from 01/07/04 to 30/09/04
• PPP to be charged across all calls incl. BT Retail
• All calls to be charged only one element of PPP.
• Non-product specific bad debt, one off charges excluded from PPP
•Interconnect Specific Basket (ISB) restructured post Oct 04: RPI-8.25% overall cap retained But RPI-0% sub caps respectively on Circuits and PPP• Service Centre charges transferred from calls to circuits
•FRIACO PPP charge @ £18.91 per circuit.
• OFCOM has asked BT to consult with industry over Multi PPP leg calls excluding CPS & IA (as these are already covered)
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PPP Implementation Overview
Phase 1 – Interim actions
•Credit notes (two types PPP rate reduction & Multi PPP rebate CPS/IA)
•CPL Changes & Industry briefings
Phase 2 –Strategic actions
•Systems development for Multi PPP leg calls CPS & IA
•Industry consultation on Multi PPP leg calls other
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PPP Implementation – Phase 1 Interim Actions
Price changes 1st July 04 – 30th Sept 04:
• New PPP Prices published in CPL on 1st Oct 04
• ACCN notification and Industry Briefing issued
• Credit notes for July and Aug issued 10/09/04 for Multi leg PPP CPS & IA calls and will arise monthly thereafter.
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PPP Implementation – Phase 1 Interim Actions
Price changes from 1st Oct 04 until 31st March 05:
• IX ccts prices changed to recover Service Centre costs as per determination - PPP remains at 0.012ppm.
•Prices have been published in CPL on 1st Oct 04 to apply from 1st Jan 05
• ACCN notification on 1st Oct 04
• Invoices with new prices for PPP rate reduction will be issued in early November for October traffic (no more credit notes after this for PPP rate reduction)
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PPP Implementation – Phase 2 Longer Term Strategic Actions
•Billing systems development – Planning to implement a system development to eliminate credit notes for Multi PPP CPS & IA calls.
•Consultation with OLOs over Multi PPP calls excluding CPS & IA – 5th November at BT City Place Gatwick (invitations issued).
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SummaryCommunications
•Industry Briefing on PPP single leg and PPP rate reduction 1st July 04 – 30th Sept 04 issued 21st Sept.
• Industry Briefing on NCC prices issued.
•This presentation to SCF
Credit notes/Pricing
•Single PPP element for CPS & IA backdating to 1st July 04 completed via credit notes Sep 04 onwards.
•PPP rate reduction backdating to be discharged via the November credit note
•Friaco price change implemented.
Ongoing work areas
•Systems development for Multi PPP leg calls
•BT hosted industry consultation arranged for 5th Nov to resolve Multi PPP leg call identification issues.
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NTS Third Party Handover
28th October 2004
Mick Sharpe BT Wholesale Product Management
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1. Product overview
2. Schedules.
3. Pre-requisites
4. Summary of ordering process
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Product Overview - NTS Third Party Handover
BT DLENTS Code
owner
Third Party operator
BT DMSU
BT Customer
From Other operators
Existing routing options
New routing options
PortabilityCalls to route over existing links
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Product Overview - NTS Third Party Handover
The service will apply both to BT originated and Communication Provider originated calls (transit calls).
The product will be implemented by reassigning “whole” codes which currently point to the NTS code owner (if existing) to a Third Party Operator as specified in their routing plan.
Product features are:
• Commercial arrangements between the third party operator and the NTS code owner will need to be agreed separately.
• BT’s commercial arrangements (apart from those for number portability) will be with the Third Party Operator only.
• The NTS code owner will retain their own porting obligations and porting relationship with BT.
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Schedules
The schedules applicable are: Schedule 311 Operator Free phone calls
Schedule 312 Operator Local Call Fee Access
Schedule 313 Operator Premium Rate Service Calls
Schedule 315 Operator National Calls
Schedule 410 Operator 0871 NTS calls
Schedule 411 Operator 0844 NTS calls
Schedule 102 Transit
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Pre-requisites
• BT will require that the TPO provides a letter of authority from the code owner to implement the relevant number range(s) on the interconnection between the TPO and BT.
• The NTS code owner must retain responsibility for their own porting obligations and porting relationship with BT.
• Interconnection will need to be maintained between the NTS Code owner and BT to meet number portability obligations. Any alterations to ported traffic interconnect routeings between BT and the NTS Code owner will need to be separately agreed.
• Available only to NTS code owners with established interconnect with BT or to new operators once they have established interconnect with BT (in order to meet portability obligations).
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Summary of Ordering Process
The following give a brief description of how the Communications Provider can place an order for NTS Third Party Handover service:
1. Letter of Authority is required from the code owner. This should be sent to BT via the TPO.
2. Third party operator agrees routing plan with their technical account manager (TAM).
3. Data management amendment (DMA) and routing plan sent to commercial manager (CM) from TPO as well as letter of authority from the NTS code owner as above.
4. CM for TPO arranges contract for service provision and sends to customer for authorising.
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PPC Credit Vetting Update
Charles Walker
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CURRENT STATUS :
•Version 6.0 of the policy document was released on 13th September and included updates of agreed changes from the Industry consultation meeting of the 21st July and incorporation of some of the comments received from Operators subsequent to that meeting. Over the last few months we have been through a full and thorough consultation process with industry representatives, culminating in that Issue 1.0 of the process documentation which will be issued shortly.
•BT will be responding in the next few days to the outstanding queries received from a limited number of Operators. Some of their requested changes have been made others have not, and we will document in our response to those Operators why certain changes have not been made.
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•A contract amendment is not required before implementation as there is contract provision already in the PPC contract – clause 10.5 refers. Therefore, BT will not be seeking to gain contract amendment signature before implementation.
•Notification will be provided of implementation 90 days hence.