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2.2 Option 2: CLEC provides Billing and Collection Services for ABS Traffic
ABS APPENDIX /SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE, L.P.
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SBC TEXAS/CLEC JOINT PETITIONERS
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2.2.1 Under this option, CLEC will provide Billing and Collection Services (B&CS) to SBC Texas for the
ABS calls described in this Appendix and for additional Alternate Billing Services that may be
developed and agreed to during the term of this Appendix. CLEC may submit up to a maximum of
35% of the SBC Texas’ rated ABS messages and applicable taxes delivered via the DUF to SBC
Texas as an Uncollectible, for a given bill period. SBC Texas will credit CLEC a Billing and
Collection Service (B&CS) fee of $0.05 per billed message for billing its End Users according to
the ABS messages transmitted via the DUF for ABS calls originated on SBC Texas’ network.
2.2.2 Billing Services
2.2.2.1 SBC Texas will provide CLEC with formatted records via the DUF for SBC Texas’s rated
messages for ABS calls in accordance with SBC Texas’s requested rate. CLEC will render bills to
CLEC’s Customers in accordance with standard billing processes. CLEC must bill for all ABS calls
contained on the formatted DUF records. CLEC shall bill all calls within thirty (30) days of
receiving the applicable DUF.
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2.2.2.3 CLEC agrees to modify its billing edits to allow the generation of a bill to an End-User if
CLEC receives the ABS billable call records within 45 days after the CLEC End-User’s account
has been put in a pending closed or closed status in CLEC's customer database. Records older
than 45 days that are sent on customer accounts that are in a pending closed or closed status can
be returned to SBC Texas as Unbillable.
2.2.2.4 CLEC is not required to bill for ABS calls sent by means of the DUF that are more than 120
days old.
2.2.2.5 CLEC will provide an accounting of collections for ABS charges, including partial payments
through a mutually agreed upon format. This report is acceptable on a monthly basis.
2.2.3 Collection Services
These Collection Services consist of:
- Collecting payments remitted by CLEC’s End-User Customers for Alternate Billing
Services calls;
- Adjusting End User’s bills as set forth in Section 7.0 of this Appendix;
- Responding to Customer complaints, inquiries and disputes as set forth in Section 6.0 of
this Appendix;
- Remitting net proceeds to SBC Texas;