Metering & Billing Solutions

BABT is one of the leading metering and billing certification providers worldwide, offering a vast array of metering and billing solutions to assist its customers in meeting regulatory and commercial requirements.

BABT’s services include:

• UK Metering and Billing Approval Body for the Oftel Direction
• Attestation of Communication Support Systems against a BABT Code of Practice

UK Metering and Billing Approval – Compliance with OTR 003:2001 /The Direction

The UK Metering and Billing Approval scheme requires operators to:

• Set appropriate internal performance targets to ensure that performance standards are met
• Measure the performance achieved in practice

Gaining Metering and Billing Approval from BABT will provide your business with the following benefits:

• Improved profitability
• Reduced revenue leakage
• Reduced customer complaints
• Compliance with regulatory requirements
• Differentiation from your competitors thus enhancing your profile in the marketplace

Certification to the technical requirements of the Direction, together with the associated benefits, is also available to non-UK operators.

Attestation of Communication Support Systems

In this increasingly competitive marketplace it is essential that system suppliers are able to differentiate their products from other solutions that are available, so BABT has introduced a new assessment service for suppliers of Communication Support Systems to mobile and fixed communications providers. This service is available to suppliers of billing, mediation, provisioning and customer support systems.

With the advent of the Oftel Direction the onus is now on support system suppliers to demonstrate that their products have the capability to meet the needs of the Direction when used as an element of the Total Metering and Billing System (TMBS). Whilst it is not possible for billing or mediation systems to have an Approval to the Direction, as this only applies to providers of a communication service, BABT has developed a unique assessment approach which can lead to an Attestation of your product. This independent third party attestation of your system from BABT, as the leading Approval Body for the Direction, will provide evidence to the marketplace that your product will meet its needs for accuracy, reliability and timeliness.

An Attestation from BABT will provide the following benefits:

• Your product will be differentiated from those of your competitors
• Assessment is planned to suit your needs and reach clear conclusions
• Opportunities for improvements to system design and documentation are identified
• The integrity and precision of your product’s contribution to a system is verified
• Any known mistakes that other system vendors have made are avoided
• Your customers are more confident that your product will met their needs

Click here to go to Communications Providers (CPs) with Approved Total Metering and Billing Systems (TMBSs)