What is JIP?

Provide Qwest the jurisdiction information parameter (JIP) in the call stream of your wireless traffic and enable Qwest to rate your domestic-to-domestic cellular calls (identified as those calls carrying info digits 61, 62, or 63 in the call stream "Cellular Calls") based on the actual originating cell phone location (rather than on the ANI associated with the phone). Qwest will compare the JIP to the terminating ANI of the called number to determine jurisdiction (Interstate or Intrastate) or, in the case of 8XX origination services, the originating JIP will be used to determine jurisdiction along with the Customer's 8XX origination Point of Interconnect (POI).

JIP billing has been embraced by the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) and other industry groups. JIP will not be used for non-Cellular Calls, international Cellular Calls, or Cellular Calls carried over end-user direct access lines connecting end users to Qwest. Instead, the applicable non-JIP method of determining jurisdiction will be used. JIP will allow carriers to improve the efficiency of routing domestic-to-domestic Cellular Calls.

Value Proposition and Differentiators

Using JIP will enable Qwest to rate a domestic-to-domestic Cellular Call by using the actual geographic origination point of the call (as opposed to the ANI assigned to the wireless phone).
Qwest billing will compare the origination point (using JIP) of the domestic-to-domestic Cellular Call to the termination point (using ANI) of the call, and thus will determine the appropriate jurisdiction (Interstate or Intrastate).

Benefits

Facilitates more precise inter-carrier billing of domestic-to-domestic Cellular Calls.

Reduces the chance of the caller experiencing adverse feature interactions, such as the loss of access to geographic-specific enhanced toll-free features.

Qwest will jurisdictionalize and rate the Cellular Call based on the actual geographic origination point of the call and the terminating ANI of the called number.

For each roaming call, your invoice will list both the actual originating city and the ANI assigned to the wireless phone that made the roaming call.

Availability

Beginning November, 2005, JIP billing will be applied to domestic-to-domestic Cellular Calls, as described above.

In order for Qwest to utilize JIP, facility-based customers must populate JIP in the call stream data as described in the rules published by the ATIS’ Network Interconnection Interoperability Forum (NIIF) in NIIF Reference Document ATIS-0300011 “Part III, Installation and Maintenance Responsibilities for SS7 Links and Trunks.” The document is available via the ATIS Document Center at http://www.atis.org/.

The information contained herein does not constitute an offer by Qwest to provide services, equipment or materials. Any such services and items shall be provided only pursuant to a fully executed Qwest Wholesale Services Agreement, or similar agreement, between Qwest and Customer.