CRTC Telecommunications Industry Data Collection
Frequently asked Questions - 2005
Mobile and Paging Forms (27X and 28X)
FAQ Index
Form 271 – Mobile Voice
and Paging – Operating Revenues
- We provide a proprietary voice service which is similar
to CB radio. Should that be counted as part of the mobile
voice data reported on this form?
- We provide mobile voice services. How should roaming
revenues be accounted for?
- What is the differences between line 9 (" Mobile Interconnection")
and line 6 (" Mobile Roaming
[Intercarrier]")?
- Should Mobile Terminal
Equipment (line 10) include both rental and sales revenue?
Form 274 – Mobile Revenues,
Subscriptions & Accounts
- How do I calculate the churn rate?
Form 275 – Mobile Voice Billed Minutes
- How is the traffic broken out?
Form 278 – Mobile & Paging - Analogue and Digital
Coverage
- We have maps of our analogue and digital mobile coverage.
Can we submit those?
Form 271– Mobile Voice
and Paging – Operating Revenues
We provide a proprietary voice service which is similar
to CB radio. Should that be counted as part of the mobile voice
data reported on this form?
The form looks specifically at PSTN-connected mobile applications.
To the extent that your branded application allows direct-dial
PSTN call origination and termination, it should be included.
To the extent that it doesn't, it should be omitted.
We provide mobile voice services. How should roaming
revenues be accounted for?
Roaming revenues show up in two ways.
Roaming revenue, known to some providers as “incollect” revenue,
is received from your own customers: you bill them for the
time they spent roaming on other providers networks. This revenue
will be reported on line 5. The corresponding expense that
is associated with this category (incollect) should be reported
on Form 106 (intercarrier expenses), line 43 (Mobile Voice).
All of the intercarrier expenses reported on this form (106)
will, of course, be then aggregated on Form 101 (Income Statement)
line 5 Intercarrier expenses).
Another type of roaming revenue is received from other carriers
on behalf of their customers, for the time they spent roaming
on your network. Some providers call this "outcollect" revenue.
It should be reported on line 6 as "Mobile Roaming (Intercarrier)".
What is the differences between line 9 (" Mobile Interconnection")
and line 6 (" Mobile Roaming
[Intercarrier]")?
Line 6, intercarrier mobile roaming revenues, are the revenues
received from other carriers on behalf of their customers,
for the time their customers spent roaming on your network.
Some providers call this "outcollect" revenue. The
details are provided on line 4 of Form 276.
Line 9, mobile interconnection, represents any revenues paid
by other providers, whether wireline or wireless, for the express
purpose of terminating communications onto your mobile network
access devices. "Communications", here, includes voice
calls going to mobile phones on your network, SMS messages going
to mobile phones on your network, and so forth. Where these revenues
tend to be settled, please provide the gross figure here, (details
on line 3 Form 276) and an offsetting expense on Form 106 ("Intercarrier
Expenses").
Should Mobile Terminal
Equipment (line10) include both rental and sales revenue?
Yes. Please provide gross sales and rental revenue following
your accepted accounting practice.
Form 274– Mobile Revenues,
Subscriptions & Accounts
How do I calculate the churn rate?
Please refer to the definition in the glossary to assist you.
Form 275 – Mobile Voice Billed Minutes How is the traffic broken out?
The form asks you to break out your total traffic two ways --
non-toll vs toll, and on-net vs off-net -- and to break out your
on-net (non-roaming) traffic by originating vs terminating. The
latter may be estimated based on available switch records.
Form 278 - Mobile & Paging - Analogue and Digital
Coverage
We have maps of our analogue and digital mobile coverage.
Can we submit those?
We are accepting map-based data files. The maps must provide
geographic information as to coverage. "Analogue" and "digital" are
meaningful only insofar as they refer to the specific protocols
such as - AMPS, CDMA, CDMA 1xRTT, TDMA (non-GSM), GSM, GPRS,
and ESMR/iDEN. Rather than "digital", therefore,
a given map file should be identified as defining GSM and GPRS
coverage in Canada (in a case where these two are exactly congruent).
The geographic information must be interpretable using the MapInfo
format.
For more information please do not hesitate to contact us on
the telinfo@crtc.gc.ca e-mail channel or on our telephone hotline
(819) 997-4597.
Date Modified: 2005-02-14 |
