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International Telecommunication Union

COSITU

Software for the Calculation of Costs, Tariffs and Rates for Telephone Services

Telecommunication Development Bureau (2004 Edition)

SERVICE PACK 2

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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1 Installing COSITU........................................................................................ 1 1.1 Introduction........................................................................................ 1 1.2 Installation Process............................................................................ 1 1.3 Starting COSITU................................................................................. 3

2 Principal users of COSITU .......................................................................... 4

3 Services for which COSITU can calculate costs ....................................... 4

4 First steps in COSITU.................................................................................. 8 4.1 Introduction........................................................................................ 8 4.2 Exchange rate in relation to the Special Drawing Right (SDR) ....... 8 4.3 Starting the application ..................................................................... 8

5 The menus in COSITU................................................................................. 9 5.1 Session menu .................................................................................... 9 5.1.1 Introduction............................................................................ 9 5.1.2 Managing sessions ................................................................ 10 5.1.3 Export-Import......................................................................... 14 5.1.4 Exit.......................................................................................... 15 5.2 Settings Menu.................................................................................... 16 5.2.1 Cost Distribution Matrix ........................................................ 16 5.2.2 Change Language .................................................................. 16 5.2.3 Translation ............................................................................. 16 5.3 Reports Menu..................................................................................... 18 5.3.1 Results of the Traffic Estimation ........................................... 18 5.3.2 List of Tickets ......................................................................... 19 5.3.3 Traffic Measures in Erlangs................................................... 20 5.3.4 Cost Distribution .................................................................... 21 5.3.5 Cost Evaluation Data ............................................................. 22 5.3.6 Unit Costs ............................................................................... 23 5.3.7 Tariffs...................................................................................... 24 5.4 Administration Menu ......................................................................... 25 5.4.1 Create a user name (login) .................................................... 25 5.4.2 Manage user accounts (logins) ............................................. 26 5.5 Help Menu.......................................................................................... 27 5.5.1 COSITU Help .......................................................................... 27 5.5.2 About COSITU ....................................................................... 27

6 Sequence to be followed ............................................................................ 28

7 Traffic Estimation ........................................................................................ 29 7.1 General ............................................................................................... 29 7.2 Ticket Analysis ................................................................................... 31 7.2.1 File Format ............................................................................. 32 7.2.2 File Import .............................................................................. 32 7.2.3 Missing Data .......................................................................... 32

Page 7.2.4 Dataset Suppression............................................................. 32 7.2.5 Ticket Interpretation .............................................................. 32 7.2.6 Normalization ........................................................................ 33 7.2.7 Generate Report .................................................................... 34 7.3 Affinity Matrix .................................................................................... 34 7.4 Revenues ........................................................................................... 36 7.5 Validation........................................................................................... 39

8 Cost Evaluation........................................................................................... 41 8.1 Analytical Accounting ....................................................................... 42 8.2 General Accounting .......................................................................... 45 8.3 Other Costs........................................................................................ 49 8.3.1 Direct and Indirect Costs ...................................................... 49 8.3.2 Amortization Period (required and actual)........................... 50 8.3.3 Common and Special Costs (calculation and allocation) .............................................................................. 50 8.3.4 Impact of monetary erosion on return on capital and interest rate ........................................................................... 52 8.3.5 Cost of Capital ....................................................................... 54 8.3.6 Method of Allocating Common and Special Costs ............. 54 8.3.7 Compound Annual Growth Rate.......................................... 55 8.3.8 Inefficiency Costs .................................................................. 55

9 Cost of Services ? Unit Costs .................................................................... 57 9.1 Cost of Services ................................................................................ 57 9.2 Unit Costs .......................................................................................... 58 9.3 Comparison with other operators .................................................... 59

10 Determination of cost-oriented tariffs ...................................................... 60 10.1 Current Prices.................................................................................... 61 10.1.1 Domestic and international service...................................... 62 10.1.2 Services provided to and received from other national operators ............................................................................... 64 10.1.3 USO parameters.................................................................... 65 10.2 Cost-oriented tariffs .......................................................................... 66

11 Simulations for universal service obligation............................................ 67

12 Determination of cost-based tariffs .......................................................... 68

13 Interpretation of results ............................................................................. 69 13.1 Examples of how to determine tariffs for domestic services ......... 69 13.2 Examples of how to determine tariffs for services destined for other national operators (interconnection) ................................ 70 13.3 Examples of how to determine tariffs for services to international operators (termination rates)...................................... 70

14 Applying COSITU to mobile networks ..................................................... 71 14.1 Similarities in fixed/mobile network architecture............................ 71 14.2 Calculating the cost of inefficiency for a mobile network............... 72

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1 Installing COSITU

1.1 Introduction

The COSITU program can be installed on any computer running one of the following operating systems: a) Windows 98 b) Windows 98 SE c) Windows ME d) Windows NT e) Windows 2000 f) Windows XP or any later version

Important Note ? If you are running Windows 98 first edition, Internet Explorer 5.0 or a later version must be installed for you to be able to install COSITU.

1.2 Installation Process

To install COSITU, proceed as follows: 1 Insert the COSITU CD into the CD drive of your computer. The installation wizard

should start automatically. If it does not, find the icon corresponding to your CD drive and double-click on it. 2 Double-click on the Setup icon. 3 The Installation program runs and pauses at the following screen:

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