scope:

The Small Exchange Carrier Access Billing (SECAB) Guidelines document has been created to support those providers, or their vendors, who currently do not conform to the CABS Billing Output Specifications (BOS).

This document is intended to provide guidelines for producing complete and verifiable access bills for the customers. These guidelines do not increase the complexity of providing an access bill to the level that the provider can no longer produce its own bill.

SECAB is neither a replacement for, nor substitution of, the CABS BOS. These guidelines cannot establish new requirements for CABS BOS or change existing ones. It is understood that some requirements contained in this document differ and in some instances exceed the BOS paper requirements. This has been done due to the unique nature of the providers providing the bills.

SECAB identifies the information which small providers should provide in order to meet customer criteria for complete and verifiable access bills. These guidelines also include customer preference and conditional data elements.

These guidelines address access and interconnection billing requirements. It is not a requirement to use the SECAB Guidelines to bill interconnection. However, should you choose to do so, interconnection requirements have been identified. These guidelines do not address all requirements for Meet Point Billing options. The Multiple Exchange Carrier Access Billing (MECAB) contains the recommended guidelines for the billing of access/interconnection services provided to a customer by two or more providers. That document should be consulted for specific meet point criteria.