In telecom billing, mediation quality decides rating quality_
CGRateS can ingest varied event sources and convert them into internal events before rating. That mediation step is where field mapping, normalization, and commercial context become explicit.
- CGRateS
- CDR
- Telecom Billing
CGRateS can ingest varied event sources and convert them into internal events before rating. That mediation step is where field mapping, normalization, and commercial context become explicit.
A rating engine cannot correct a duration in milliseconds labelled as seconds, a local timestamp interpreted as UTC, or an ambiguous customer identifier. Clean execution of the wrong event is still wrong billing.
What changes in practice_
Keep source records immutable, version mapping templates, quarantine rejects, and make every rated result traceable to its transformation.
- Validate before rating.
- Version mediation rules.
- Design re-rating as an auditable workflow.
Our take_
The durable advantage is not adopting the newest tool first. It is building the identity, state, evidence, and operating boundaries that let a real team own the system after launch.