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Open Product/Process CR PC060116-1 Detail

 
Title: Eliminate Regional paper reports Report names are ECS1/2 in Central and 51034/5, 50414 in Eastern
CR Number Current Status
Date 		Area Impacted Products Impacted
PC060116-1 Completed
9/21/2016
Originator: Pontinen, Tom
Originator Company Name: CenturyLink
Owner: Pontinen, Tom
Director:
CR PM: Lorence, Susan

Description Of Change

CenturyLink would like to eliminate the CRIS originated paper reports that were developed pre-Divestiture related to Toll settlements. Reports are sent to all ILECs and CLECs which receive records from CenturyLink. A large number of customers have requested not to receive them. These report formats differ by CRIS region: Eastern/Western/Central.

Western Report distribution was halted over 15 years ago. Reports are named ECS1/2 in Central and 51034/5, 50414 in Eastern.

Data on the reports includes:

Record counts for Wireless, Wireline Transit records

Record count for originating and terminating Switched Access records (Jointly Provided Switched Access - JPSA)

Count of DA, National DA messages

Count of Operator Handled messages

Sent Collect/Received Collect messages

NOTE: An example of one of the reports can be provided.

Data on the reports reflect records sent from CenturyLink to the ILECs/CLECs in industry standard format (records for access billing, records for end user billing, copy records, etc.). If the related data is sent to a customer’s Service Bureau, these reports may be distributed to the Service Bureau vs. to the customer.

CenturyLink believes these paper reports can be discontinued because much of the data can be found in the following locations:

• The report file transmittal information accompanying these records

• The header and trailer records within the data files

• LEXCIS billing reflects much of the information on the paper reports.

Date Action Description
6/3/2016 CR Acknowledged CR Acknowledged. 
6/1/2016 CR Submitted CR Submitted. 
6/15/2016 Discussed at Monthly CMP Meeting Discussed in the June ProdProc CMP Meeting - See Attachment D in the Distribution Package. 
7/12/2016 Communicator Issued See notification number PROS.MISC.07.12.16.F.14777.EliminateRegionalPaperRpt. 
7/1/2016 Status Changed Status changed to Development. 
6/15/2016 Status Changed Status changed to Presented. 
7/20/2016 Discussed at Monthly CMP Meeting Discussed in the July ProdProc CMP Meeting - See Attachment D in the Distribution Package. 
8/11/2016 Communicator Issued See notification number PROS.MISC.08.11.16.F.14861.FNL_ElimnateRgnlPaperRpts. 
8/17/2016 Discussed at Monthly CMP Meeting Discussed in the August ProdProc CMP Meeting - See Attachment D in the Distribution Package. 
9/1/2016 Status Changed Status changed to CLEC Test. 
9/21/2016 Status Changed Status changed to Completed. 
9/21/2016 Discussed at Monthly CMP Meeting Discussed in the September ProdProc CMP Meeting - See Attachment D in the Distribution Package. 

Project Meetings

9/21/16 Product/Process CMP Meeting Mark Coyne – CenturyLink said this CR is in CLEC TEST as of September 1, 2016. There were no CLEC comments. Mark asked if there were any objections to moving this CR to a Completed status. There were none.

8/17/16 Product/Process CMP Meeting Mark Coyne – CenturyLink said the initial Level 4 notice was sent on July 12, 2016 and the final notice was sent on August 11, 2016. There were no CLEC comments. Mark said there were no document updates for this CR but there is a document posted to the Document Review site that has examples of the paper reports that will be eliminated. To insure coverage, CenturyLink has been sending a copy of the initial notice along with the paper reports that are generated to the customers that normally receive the reports to let them also know the reports are being discontinued. The planned effective date for this change is September 1, 2016. Mark asked if there were questions. There were none.

7/20/16 Product/Process CMP Meeting Mark Coyne – CenturyLink said this CR was presented last month. A Level 4 notification was sent on July 12, 2016. There are no documentation updates associated with this change but CenturyLink did post some information to the Document Review site associated with the notification that included some examples of the paper reports that are to be eliminated. The planned effective date for this change is September 1, 2016.

6/15/16 Product/Process CMP Meeting Tom Pontinen – CenturyLink presented this new CR. He said the report was originally designed before switched access and was for independent company settlements. Tom said CenturyLink does not think the reports are needed any longer and eliminating these paper reports will save thousands of print pages each month.

Kim Isaacs – Integra asked if the reports or data is available electronically vs. paper.

Kathy Pearce - CenturyLink said these are paper reports only distributed via US Mail.

Susan Lorence – CenturyLink said she thought the report data was available in other electronic forms.

Kathy Pearce - CenturyLink said the information on the paper reports has similar information as to what is on the electronic toll and access report files that are distributed. Kathy said the data and trailer records on the data files also carry totals and are currently available to customers.

Mark Coyne – CenturyLink said we will move forward with the CR then.

Information Current as of 1/11/2021