INTERNATIONAL  TELECOMMUNICATION  UNION	

CCITT	D.192
THE  INTERNATIONAL
TELEGRAPH  AND  TELEPHONE
CONSULTATIVE  COMMITTEE

GENERAL  TARIFF  PRINCIPLES
CHARGING  AND  ACCOUNTING  IN
INTERNATIONAL  TELECOMMUNICATIONS
SERVICES

PRINCIPLES  FOR  CHARGING
AND  ACCOUNTING  OF  SERVICE
TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Recommendation  D.192

	Geneva, 1991	

Printed in Switzerland

FOREWORD
	The CCITT (the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee) is a permanent organ of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). CCITT is responsible for studying technical, operating and tariff questions and issuing Recommendations on them with a view to standardizing telecommunications on a worldwide basis.
	The Plenary Assembly of CCITT which meets every four years, establishes the topics for study and approves Recommendations prepared by its Study Groups. The approval of Recommendations by the members of CCITT between Plenary Assemblies is covered by the procedure laid down in CCITT Resolution No. 2 (Melbourne, 1988).
	Recommendation D.192 was prepared by Study Group III and was approved under the Resolution No. 2 procedure on the 15 of July 1991.

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CCITT  NOTE
	In this Recommendation, the expression “Administration” is used for conciseness to indicate both a telecommunication Administration and a recognized private operating agency.

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Recommendation D.192
Recommendation D.192
PRINCIPLES  FOR  CHARGING  AND  ACCOUNTING
OF  SERVICE  TELECOMMUNICATIONS
	The CCITT,
considering
	(a)	that according to Article 29 of the Convention of the International Telecommunication Union (Nice, 1989) the various cases in which free services are accorded are set forth in the Administrative Regulations;
	(b)	that the term “service telecommunication” is defined in Article 2, point 2.4 of the International Telecommunications Regulations (Melbourne, 1988);
	(c)	that according to Appendix 3, point 1.1 to the International Telecommunication Regulations, Administrations may provide service telecommunications free of charge;
	(d)	that according to the same appendix, point 1.2, Administrations may in principle forego inclusion of service telecommunications in international accounting, under the relevant provisions of the International Telecommunication Convention and the International Telecommunication Regulations, having due regard for the need for reciprocal arrangements,
considering furthermore
	(e)	that service telecommunications may be provided by Administrations either via an operator or via the automatic service;
	(f)	that some Administrations may be able to identify all automatic service telecommunications while others may not;
	(g)	that the practice has been for some Administrations to deduct all service telecommunications from the international accounts while others do not,
noting
	(h)	that the service definitions and the operational aspects of service telecommunications are covered in the relevant E- and F-Series Recommendations for the various telecommunication services,
recommends
	for all types of service telecommunications, to apply the following charging and accounting principles:
1	Charging
	Administrations may provide service telecommunications free of charge.
2	Accounting
2.1	In principle, all traffic representing service telecommunications whether established via an operator or via the automatic service may be excluded from the international accounts.
2.2	However, Administrations who do not wish to forego their accounting share related to the incoming service telecommunications traffic shall notify the General Secretariat of the ITU specifying the services concerned. Besides publishing the text of such notifications in the Operational Bulletin, the Union will keep and publish periodically an updated list of notified restrictions.