Managing Carriers Carrier Costs

What carriers pay and what is yielded in savings is subjective and unpredictable, it depends on
the carrier and their unique situation. The first step is to understand your unique situation with
your carrier costs.
What are some services carriers paying other carriers for today?

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Applications (Services):
Voice termination
Voice origination
IP Transit
CNAM
LNP
LIDB
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Off-Net DIDs
Fee structure for applications:
Per minute
Per query
Indirect fees for supporting applications:
Transport/Connectivity: TDM
Transport/Connectivity: SS7 Links
Off Net / Leased Circuits
To customer end sites
To other carriers

While this information is usually not transparently accessible to decision makers, all of this
would be thoroughly documented. Once we understand your present cost structure we look for
savings.
How carriers can save with consulting:
Removal of unused services
Consolidation of underutilized services
Removal of billing errors
Negotiation of better rates for the above services
Discovery and implementation of new services that increase service levels and
reduce costs / improve capacity.
How carriers can save with better carrier connections:

Berlin Pacific Vendor Management

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With even a single interconnect to the right Multi Carrier Fabric MCF, you can
reduce or eliminate your SS7 and TDM connectivity (the indirect fees.)
By doing so, you can access to more applications (services) through more
organizations (carriers.)
Ability to terminate and build more in-depth LCR to reduce per minute fees
Ability to reduce IP Transit costs
Ability to increase inbound traffic voice termination fees. (Capture tandem
revenue.)
CNAM Revenue.
Ability to route calls for free on MCF (Multilateral peering) via ENUM
Reduction in circuit costs. (Aggregation and grooming.)
Choice of various providers of SS7/TCAP services (CNAM, LNP, LIDB, etc.)
By migrating your services through a MCF, not only are SS7 links reduced
or eliminated, but the response times are reduced from the typical 30 to
200ms to within 3 to 10ms resulting in faster call-setup times.
Ability to interconnect with multiple SS7 providers and route databasespecific queries to the low-cost providers of choice.
By being interconnected, the provisioning time is eliminated, allowing you to
handle growth with ease.

You can save on other vendor costs:

Equipment Support and Maintenance Contracts with 175+ OEMs like Nortel,
Cisco, Juniper, Lucent, etc.
o Reduce total cost of support contracts 20-50%
o Gain visibility in to costs, as well as faster resolution of issues.
$100,000+ IT vendor contracts of any type. Savings tend to vary.
Treasury Banking Fees, Credit Card Processing Costs reduce costs of processing
customer and vendor payments, add profits to your bottom line.
Berlin Pacific Vendor Management - Anything Less Is A Waste Of Money.

Berlin Pacific Vendor Management

212-247-2502

sales@berlinpacific.com