Ofcom’s Metering and Billing Direction

Ofcom’s Metering and Billing Direction was once described as being just good business practice.

But like many systems, it is how you apply those practices that make all the difference.

You can look at it and see how it fits in with you other RA activities, after all the levels are worth achieving.

Or, you could just want the certificate on the wall.

Regulatory Requirements for Billing Accuracy
for example: Ofcom’s Total Metering and Billing Direction

How do you spot a polar bear in the tundra at a distance?  The guide’s answer is simple, you look for a rock that moves!  By understanding the landscape and seeing what is out of place within the landscape, you can take the first steps to identifying that there is a bear.

Once a bear has been spotted, there are a number of choices: 
- to move towards the bear and investigate,
- to wait and see whether the bear comes closer of its own volition,
- to look for other bears,
- and so on.

Metering and Billing Accuracy is about understanding your network and billing landscape.  Its about covering the landscape in a way that enables you to restrict the number of anomalies that changes could create (for example - don’t build a pig farm close to a bear’s migration route), to detect anomalies as early as possible and to manage them before they become a problem (scare bears away from peopled areas), and to see how effective those steps are through measurement.

We can help you work through the entire process, or help with particular stages of the process to support the business.