This Guidebook originates from TMF Revenue Assurance Technical Report 131, a technical report on RA issued by TMF in 2004, and leads the reader through different facets of RA, collecting the experiences of various professionals.

In its evolution from a technical report to a guidebook, the Guidebook aims at broadening the target audience from the original group of RA technical practitioners to a broader set of business stakeholders including other contributing, influencing or benefiting organizations in a CSP. Additional topics have been investigated; others that were only outlined in TR131 have been further expanded.

In particular, the Guidebook deals with the following topics, each one covered in a separate chapter:

SID and eTOM models’ support for RA, according to the recent proposal of TMF Modeling team to integrate RA into the SID and eTOM

View at Regulatory Compliance through the prism of RA, addressin...