Use of Terminating Record Creation for LEC-to-LEC Telecommunications Traffic

PURPOSE: This rule establishes a system of terminating record creation between carriers for Local Exchange Carrier-to-Local Exchange Carrier (LEC-to-LEC) traffic. (1) Terminating carriers may utilize information received from originating and/or transiting carriers to prepare category 11-01XX records to generate accurate billing invoices for submission to originating carriers. All such billing invoices submitted by terminating carriers shall be generated and based upon category 11-01-XX records and such records shall be made available to the originating carrier upon request at no charge. Originating carriers are required to compensate terminating carriers on the basis of such accurate invoices. (2) A terminating carrier may identify the originating carrier that it bills based on the originating operating company number (OCN) associated with the originating caller identification number. Certain type I wireless interconnections may utilize blocks of fewer than one thousand (1,000) numbers; in such instances, wireless-originated calls may be attributed to wireline carriers. In the event that the terminating carrier, using the OCN identified in the local exchange routing guide, erroneously bills a carrier other than the originating carrier, then the carrier whose OCN was identified shall notify the terminating carrier, and the parties shall work jointly to identify the originating carrier. (3) Nothing in section (1) above shall preclude two (2) carriers from mutually agreeing to exchange other types of billing records. AUTHORITY: sections 386.040 and 386.250, RSMo 2000.* This rule originally filed as 4 CSR 240-29.080. Original rule filed Nov. 30, 2004, effective July 30, 2005. Moved to 20 CSR 4240-29.080, effective Aug. 28, 2019. *Original authority: 386.040, RSMo 1939 and 386.250, RSMo 1939, amended 1963, 1967, 1977, 1980, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1996.