Customer profile based telephone card billing

A system for pricing a call made over a network by a customer of the network, comprising:

• a database storing information specifying a billing plan of the customer;
• a network switch receiving a call made from a customer station or using a customer calling card or a prepaid telephone card, completing the call and generating a record that describes the call, the record comprising information relating to the call and an identifier, the identifier comprising an automatic number identification of the customer station, if the call was made from the customer station, a calling card account number of the customer calling card, if the call was made using the customer calling card, or a prepaid telephone card account number of the prepaid telephone card, if the call was made using the prepaid calling card;
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• a billing analysis system receiving the record, accessing the information specifying the customer billing plan using the identifier in the received record and determining a priced call value for the call based on the information relating to the call and the information specifying the customer billing plan.

A system for pricing a call made over a network by a customer of the network, comprising:

• means for storing information specifying a billing plan of the customer;
• means for receiving a call made from a customer station or using a customer calling card or a prepaid telephone card;
• means for completing the call;
• means for generating a record that describes the call, the record comprising information relating to the call and an identifier, the identifier comprising an automatic number identification of the customer station, if the call was made from the customer station, a calling card account number of the customer calling card, if the call was made using the customer calling card, or a prepaid telephone card account number of the prepaid telephone card, if the call was made using the prepaid calling card;
• accessing the information specifying the customer billing plan using the identifier in the received record;
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• means for determining a priced call value for the call based on the information relating to the call and the information specifying the customer billing plan.