This white paper describes the concept of reconciliation of telecom traffic for Interconnect settlements. It explains Terminating Partners, Originators and Incumbent Operators in detail. It states the concept of interconnect within the country and at international level. It also gives sample Network Diagram for interconnect.

White paper defines different types of traffic a telecom operator has. Each telecom operator is expected to have a billing system but the values generated by the billing system always vary to some extent.

This white paper discusses in detail the process of reconciliation with different interconnect partners. It discusses different levels of reconciliation which can go from must matching the ‘totals’ to going down to matching each and every call detail. It discusses different types of differences there can be while matching records on two sides.

At the end it discusses reasons for differences on two sides and then also discusses industry standards for disputes arising out of those differences. It specially discusses the process of reconciliation from a billing perspective.