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Proofs of Principle

The RA-PAC understands that RA professional standards must be focused on the most urgent, practical needs that telecoms have. We know that what RA professionals do from day-to-day has a real, measurable and demonstrable impact on the profitability of their organizations.

One of the ways RA-PAC has chosen to demonstrate this to the industry is through documented case studies, called Proofs of Principle (POPs). These show how, in real-world environments, the implementation of standards-based revenue assurance delivers real and significant value to organizations far in excess of the investment made.

GRAPA has established RA-PAC Sub-Committees to commission the requirements for POPs and the unique partnerships they create. The objective is to ensure that POPs provide clear, indisputable proof of how the industry standard practice of revenue assurance brings about dramatic returns on investment – not only to the industry as a whole, but to the top management of the individual partner organization.

What are the different kinds of Proofs of Principle?

Different partnerships were determined as required to provide a full spectrum of proofs regarding the efficacy of industry standards in real-world environments. As a result, these partnership programs are currently focused on the operational certification of Revenue Assurance teams/departments that have been in operation for different periods of time (new department, established department, generational department, etc.), with plans to expand the scope of these Proofs of Principle in the future.

Department Certification:

1. New Department (approx. 0-2 years of operation): The RA Jumpstart – creating a standards-compliant department where recently none had existed before.
2. Established Department (approx. 3-8 years of operation): The RA Reset – Transformation of an existing RA department. Based on the standards-framework, the department will quantum leap into a significantly advanced state.
3. Generational Department (approx. 9-20+ years of operation): The RA Self-Audit – Rejuvenating a department that has multiple generations of professionals by performing knowledge sharing, reassessment and recalibration according to standards-based governance frameworks.
4. Roaming Operational Department: a comprehensive review of their roaming operations against the industry standard. This will verify the completeness of the standard operating procedures, while providing the operating company’s management transparency as to the efficient and effective running of the roaming department.
5. Interconnect Operational Department: A review of standard operating procedures allows the Interconnect team to verify that their current approaches and methods are in line with industry norms, and provides them guidance and next steps – ensuring that the standard practices defined meet those needs while being practical and implementable
6. Interconnect Bypass Fraud Protection Team: a comprehensive review of their bypass prevention infrastructure against the industry standard. This will verify the completeness of the standard approaches and methods, while providing the operating company's management clarification on the actual size and scope of the problem, as well as the material return on investment received from current bypass prevention efforts.