A rating system must be adapted to the constantly changing pricing policies, which have the strategic goal of stimulating demand.
The mediation system is also useful for gathering data from various sources to aggregate into one record.
In spoken language CDR usually refers to any type of record: voice, SMS or data.
This allows both a quicker editing and the possibility to let the configuration and maintenance of the system to non programmers, like business/tariff analysts.
[7] Rule-based rating is one simple example of the use of the more general control table technique.
In this scenario the rating engine generates a currency neutral billing record.
It is the billing engine which is assigned with converting the virtual currency into an actualized cost.