Phanton Traffic-Problems Billing for the Termination of Telephone Calls: Issues for Congress. CRS Report for Congress

摘要

Every company that terminates telephone calls made to its customers faces some number of calls for which it is unable to obtain its due compensation. For a variety of reasons, a significant amount of telephone (voice) traffic that is originated by the customers of one company and terminated to the customers of another company is not adequately identified, making appropriate billing for that traffic difficult or impossible.