Intrado one step closer to bringing line-level database to market

Fujitsu Consulting will help Boulder, Colo.-based Intrado bring its intelliBase National Repository Line Level Database (NRLLDB) to market this fall through an alliance announced this week. Fujitsu will integrate the database into its telecom infrastructure offerings for incumbent and competitive local exchange carriers.

The alliance follows beta testing conducted this summer with two major service providers. The NRLLDB will be marketed as a solution to long-standing problems associated with the reconciliation of billing and customer records between carriers. Intrado, known best for its public safety solutions, developed the database to act as a single, nation-wide repository for line-level information associated with all telephone numbers in the North American Dialing Plan, including switch and company-level information, such as billing.

Fujitsu has a worldwide presence in telecom, but will work with Intrado to introduce the database in North America. “Fujitsu tends to look for companies that provide innovative software solutions to telecom and other industry vertical markets. Intrado is one of those innovative companies,” said Don Dressler, director of revenue management practice for Fujitsu Consulting.

The NRLLDB helps resolve billing conflicts for incumbents, competitive carriers and interexchange carriers by maintaining the billing relationships between providers complicated by unbundling and local number portability. Intrado became the recommended vendor for the central repository when chosen by a task force of companies within the Ordering and Billing Forum of the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) last November.

While the emergence of new competitive carriers has slowed dramatically since last year, the database will resolve conflicts between surviving CLECs and incumbents, as well as between incumbents themselves and between incumbents and interexchange carriers.

“There are fewer competitive carriers, but the need satisfied by the NRLLDB from Intrado improves a carrier’s ability to determine disposition of given services and transactions,” Dressler said.

A subset of the NRLLDB called intelliBase NRLLDB-BNA is available now. It provides data related to Revenue Accounting Office (RAO), Local Service Provider (LSP), In Service Date, and Billing Name and Address (BNA) information.

Intrado also signed an agreement with Billing Concepts in April to provide billing clearinghouse services and back office support.