The Federation of Communication Services (FCS) Billing Group has ironed out the wrinkles in its UK CDR Standard format, launched in January 2013, with the introduction of version 2.0.
Following a review of the original UK CDR Standard format the Billing Group identified a number of items that could be improved.
These include the adoption of the E.164 international standard for telephone numbers, multiple currency support and the inclusion of a header row which makes it easier for users to interpret data within the CDR.
Several of the definitions have also been revised to make information clearer and less open to ambiguity.
The FCS Billing Group's stakeholders include the UK's major billing vendors plus representatives from a number of large communication providers.
They approved the new standard, which comes into effect on the 1st April 2014 at a meeting in late January. Standard 2.0 will coexist with its predecessor for six months when version 1.5 will be withdrawn.
Tony Cook, Chairman of the FCS Billing Group, said: "Although we've had modest adoption of the Standard format to date we believe that version 2.0 addresses the primary concerns people have had for not adopting it so far.
"We strongly encourage all service providers and producers of wholesale CDRs to embrace the UK CDR Standard which is available for download on the FCS's website."