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English translation: billing increment / billing unit
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| Spanish to English translations [PRO] Tech/Engineering - Telecom(munications) / call pricing | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Charles Davis Spain Local time: 10:05 | ||||||
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| 4 | call seconds |
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| 4 | call charging block |
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call seconds Explanation: :) -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 9 mins (2012-11-07 01:32:58 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- or: call unit -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 9 mins (2012-11-07 01:33:11 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=135617 Jun 1999 – The ICP has notified Portugal Telecom and operators of land mobile services that they have to insert a minimum call unit of 5 seconds in their ... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 12 mins (2012-11-07 01:35:22 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- n telecommunication, a call-second is a unit used to measure communications traffic density. Note 1: A call-second is equivalent to 1 call with a duration of 1 second. Note 2: One user making two 75-second calls is equivalent to two users each making one 75-second call. Each case produces 150 call-seconds of traffic. Note 3: The acronym CCS (Centum Call Seconds) is often used to describe 100 call-seconds. Note 4: 3600 call-seconds = 36 CCS = 1 call-hour. Note 5: 3600 call-seconds per hour = 36 CCS per hour = 1 call-hour per hour = 1 erlang = 1 traffic unit. In a communication network, a trunk (link) can carry numerous concurrent calls by means of multiplexing. Hence a particular number of CCS can be carried in infinitely many ways as calls are established and cleared over time. For example 3600 could be one call for an hour, or 2 (possibly concurrent) calls for half an hour each. CCS gives a measure of the average number of concurrent calls (i.e. Erlangs) over a time period of one hour. Hence: 1 CCS = 100 Call-Seconds = 1/36 erlangs. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2 hrs (2012-11-07 03:37:42 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- or just simply: call time/duration |
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7 hrs confidence:
call charging block Explanation: At least that is how it is called in Oz Taken the Telstra web page: "From Phone, Member and Casual plans: Effective 1st October 2012, standard national voice and video call charging block will change from 30 second to 1 minute blocks (charged at the standard voice/video rates plus connection fee). This means the charge for calls will automatically be rounded up to the nearest minute. For example if you were to make a 1 minute 30 sec voice call, you’ll be charged for a 2 minute call." -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 7 hrs (2012-11-07 08:30:11 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- https://help.telstra.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/21580/ |
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8 hrs confidence:
billing increment / billing unit Explanation: This is one of those cases in which different terms are used in different places. "Pulse" is widely used in India and the Philippines, for example. "Block" seems to be found in Australia (as Cecilia says), and I've found it in Kenya too. In Britain and the United States there is not much need to refer to this concept, since calls are nearly always charged by the second, so there's usually no need for another word, but in the United States (I imagine you want to use American English), "billing increment" or "billing unit" are the normal terms. "A billing increment is the unit of time that is used to calculate the cost of a phone call — usually one minute, 30 seconds, six (6) seconds, or 18/6 (this means your billing increments are 6 seconds with a minimum call length of 18 seconds). " http://www.e-wisdom.com/blog/long-distance/long-distance-pla... "1. Billing Increments The time increment used to determine the length of a call. Providers charge per minute or per 6-seconds or some other time increment. 3. Billing Unit An increment, often one minute, used to measure and determine the cost of a call. With a one-minute billing unit, the ends of calls are rounded up to the next minute." http://glossary.setel.com/index.php?a=list&d=5&p=1&w1=B&w2=B... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 8 hrs (2012-11-07 09:40:39 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- "Increment" alone is widely used: "Minute Increment Billing and Usage: Airtime and other measured usage are billed in full-minute increments, and actual airtime and usage are rounded up to the next full increment at the end of each call for billing purposes. AT&T charges a full-minute increment of usage for every fraction of the last minute used on each wireless call. " https://www.wireless.att.com/businesscenter/popups/general/e... "Increment" is used in the UK as well: http://www.vodafone.co.uk/business/price-plans/working-abroa... http://www.vodafone.co.uk/vodafone-uk/about-this-site/terms-... |
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