Qwest's BillMate is a free electronic version of your monthly telephone bill that helps you easily and electronically take care of business. It is available via EDI, diskette, CD-ROM, and now on the Internet!

Why BillMate?

You may be a candidate for BillMate if you have a need to:

• Review the bill for unusual changes in monthly activity
• Re-key data from the paper bill
• Verify order activity
• Re-bill departments / agencies

Or if you are looking for ways to:

• Save time and costs by electronically manipulating bill data
• Receive multiple bills (with the same bill date) in one package at one location
• Store billing data in compact form

Benefits

• Eliminates costly data entry from the paper bill to other tracking processes
• Allows stacking of multiple accounts within the same billing period
• The billing data provided can be imported into spreadsheets, relational databases or applications
• programs
• Review your billing data monthly communications activity
• Verify order activity
• Re-bill other departments
• Track separate services
• Study usage or forecast and budget for growth

Format

ASCII

Bill information can be downloaded onto 3.5-inch high-density diskettes in American Standard Code (ASCII) comma delimited format separated into logical subject areas such as payment, toll, monthly service, etc. The diskette is available in a DOS format and allows stacking of multiple accounts within the same bill period.

The format is compatible with many existing spreadsheets, relational databases and word-processing software data packages.

*CD-ROM is limited to those accounts with revenue of $10,000 or 100 Billing Telephone Numbers on one stacking ID.

*The ASCII data can also be accessed online via Qwest's secure server.

The Customer Service Record data is available in all the above media, Diskette, CD-ROM, or Web.

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) EDI is a series of standards for transmitting billing data electronically between firms in a structured data format. For customers to receive and process EDI transmissions they must utilize the 811 transaction set, requiring the customer to have an EDI "translator" at their end to translate the EDI data into a format their particular systems can process.