multiSwitch – user manual
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4.5 Tariffs
Usually there are only three tariffs depending on time: for week days, for week-end and for
holidays. The week days are labeled from 1 to 7 and the holidays are labeled 8. The two parameters
are:
day
and
tariff
.
We have three types of charging:
•
Tax id pulses
charging – this method establishes a fix charge for the client. For a tax id pulse, a
time interval is set. The conversation will have a certain number of those time intervals and the
correspondent number of tax id pulses. At the end of the conversation the cost of the call is
calculated through the multiplication of the number of tax id pulses and the cost for a tax id pulse.
•
Tax on time
charging – this option sets the time charging, where the tax id is an id from the tax on
time table. There are two time intervals: t1 and t2. Until a specified moment of the call t1 the
charge is made with a tax id and after this interval the charge will be made with another tax id
corresponding to the t2 interval.
For instance, the client makes a call. He is charged when the other end of the connection answers.
At the answer the charge is at 1 minute. After this period he will be charged at 30 seconds.
•
Tax zone
– special charging depending on the geographical area. There are 10 geographical
areas labeled from 0 to 9. The tax zone parameters are:
¾
tariffs id
– is the tariff from the Tariff table
¾
start time
– represents the time when the tariff for a certain area begins
¾
end time
– represents the time when the tariff for a certain area ends
¾
“
t...z0
” ... “
t...z9
” – is the time in milliseconds for a tax pulse in area number 0 ... 9
4.6 Service instances
Represents the services achieved by the TOPEX MultiSwitch. The parameters of this table
are:
Name –
the name of the respective service.
Service Type
– the type of the service. There are several types of services such as: prepaid,
postpaid, postpaid SSD, composite, account management, subscriber.
PIN length
– the dimension of the PIN code – the number of digits.
Digits time out
– this option interfere when the allocated time to dial the digits has expired.
Ask language
– the client receives a message that tells him to select the desired language such as:
“For English press key 1”, “For Romanian press key 2”.
Play tone before dest
– instead receiving a message, the destination receives a tone.
Nr error
– the number of errors for a call. When this number is reached, the call is dropped.
Drop call if no ANI
– if the ANI number is not recognized, the PIN code is asked to the user. If it is not
recognized the call is dropped.
Minute beep file
– it is a beep message that appears
at every talk time minute.
Play credit
– shows the available credit of the client.
Play talk time
– shows the talk time of the client calls
Ask new dest on call end
– this option establishes if you want to make another call after the current
one was ended.
Drop pay phone play file
– if it is defined, the calls from the pay phones are dropped.
Welcome file
– the welcome message received by the client from the TOPEX MultiSwitch.
Transfer on error number
– it implies the
Nr error
parameter. Usually when this error number is
reached the call is dropped. Through this option the call will not be dropped anymore when the error
number is reached. The call will be transferred to another destination chose by the client.
