GSM Billing Procedures

GSM Billing

  • TAP (Transfer Account Procedure) is the adopted GSM standard for Billing records
  • Regulations for TAP are laid out in GSM Association PRDs
  • Commercial requirements are defined by BARG 
    (BARG = Billing & Accounting Rapporteur Group)
  • Three TAP formats to date
  • Clearing Houses - Collection and distribution of TAP records
  • Validation of records - Error Checking