telecoms.call-rating
Rate a call from a rate deck: longest-prefix destination match, billing increments, connection fee and minimum charge.
1.0.1 · published 2026-10-03 by charlie · Anterra
Pinned by 22 tests, run in TypeScript, Python and Rust.
What it does
Rates one call record (CDR) against a rate deck the way telecoms billing does it, in four steps:
1. **Destination by longest prefix.** The dialled number is matched against every prefix in the deck and the longest match wins, so 447700900123 matches `447` (UK mobile) rather than `44` (UK fixed). Numbers are in international format, E.164 digits with or without a leading `+`; convert national numbers (07700 900123) before rating. No match is an error: silently rating an unknown destination at zero is how fraud traffic goes unbilled. 2. **Billing increments.** An increment is written first/next: 60/60 is per minute, 30/6 is a 30-second minimum then 6-second blocks, 1/1 is per second. The duration is rounded up to them: 61 seconds on 60/60 is 120 billed seconds; 125 seconds on 30/6 is 126. 3. **Charge.** perMinute x billedSeconds / 60, rounded once to a whole minor unit by the caller's `mode` (math.round-div), plus the connection fee. Operators differ on how they round fractions of a penny, so it is an argument rather than a hidden choice. 4. **Minimum charge.** If the result is below the minimum call charge, the minimum is charged. The minimum includes the connection fee.
For example
rate_call(+441632960001, 125, rates ×5, half-up)→ prefix 44, destination United Kingdom fixed, billed seconds 180, usage charge £0.30, connection fee £0.00, total £0.30 a UK landline on 60/60: 125 seconds is billed as 3 minutesrate_call(441632960001, 60, rates ×5, half-up)→ prefix 44, destination United Kingdom fixed, billed seconds 60, usage charge £0.10, connection fee £0.00, total £0.10 exactly one minute on 60/60 is one minuterate_call(441632960001, 61, rates ×5, half-up)→ prefix 44, destination United Kingdom fixed, billed seconds 120, usage charge £0.20, connection fee £0.00, total £0.20 61 seconds on 60/60 is billed as two minutes
The function
The same function in TypeScript, Python and Rust, pinned by the same tests. Pick your language; the choice follows you around the registry.
def rate_call(dialled_number: str, duration_seconds: int, rates: Sequence[CallRate], mode: RoundingMode) -> RatedCall
| dialled_number | string | international format digits, E.164 with or without the leading +: 447700900123 |
| duration_seconds | int | answered duration in whole seconds; 0 for an unanswered call |
| rates | CallRate[] | the rate deck; prefixes must be unique |
| mode | RoundingMode | how the per-minute charge rounds to a whole minor unit |
| returns | RatedCall |
The types it declares, generated into your project
@dataclass(frozen=True)
class CallRate:
"""One row of a rate deck."""
#: international digits the number starts with, without + or 00: 44, 447
prefix: str
#: a name for invoices: United Kingdom mobile
destination: str
#: price per 60 billed seconds
per_minute: Money
#: added to every answered call; zero for none
connection_fee: Money
#: the least an answered call costs, connection fee included; zero for none
minimum_charge: Money
#: the first billed block: 60 in 60/60, 30 in 30/6, 1 in 1/1
first_increment_seconds: int
#: each later block: 60 in 60/60, 6 in 30/6, 1 in 1/1
next_increment_seconds: int
@dataclass(frozen=True)
class RatedCall:
"""The rated call, itemised as a bill prints it."""
#: the matched prefix
prefix: str
destination: str
#: duration rounded up to the billing increments
billed_seconds: int
#: perMinute x billedSeconds / 60, rounded by mode
usage_charge: Money
#: zero for an unanswered call
connection_fee: Money
#: usage plus connection fee, raised to the minimum charge
total: Money
Your code names it in one line, in the file that uses it
from fune.telecoms.call_rating import rate_call # telecoms.call-rating@^1
Imports name this capability’s declared dependencies, which fune builds next to it in your project; each one links to its page.
import re
from typing import Optional, Sequence
from .math_round_div import RoundingMode, round_div ← from math.round-div ^1.0.0 · built alongside by fune
from .money_amount import assert_same_currency, money ← from money.amount ^1.0.0 · built alongside by fune
from .telecoms_call_rating_types import CallRate, RatedCall
DIGITS = re.compile(r"[0-9]+")
def _is_increment(value: object) -> bool:
return not isinstance(value, bool) and isinstance(value, int) and value >= 1
def rate_call(dialled_number: str, duration_seconds: int, rates: Sequence[CallRate], mode: RoundingMode) -> RatedCall:
"""Rate one call: longest-prefix match on the dialled number, duration
rounded up to the rate's billing increments, per-minute charge rounded once
by ``mode``, connection fee added and the minimum charge applied.
"""
number = dialled_number[1:] if dialled_number.startswith("+") else dialled_number
if not DIGITS.fullmatch(number):
raise ValueError(
'dialled number must be international format digits, optionally with a leading +, received "%s"'
% (dialled_number,)
)
if isinstance(duration_seconds, bool) or not isinstance(duration_seconds, int) or duration_seconds < 0:
raise ValueError("duration must be whole seconds of 0 or more, received %r" % (duration_seconds,))
seen = set()
best: Optional[CallRate] = None
for rate in rates:
if not DIGITS.fullmatch(rate.prefix):
raise ValueError('rate prefix must be digits, received "%s"' % (rate.prefix,))
if rate.prefix in seen:
raise ValueError("duplicate prefix %s in the rate deck" % (rate.prefix,))
seen.add(rate.prefix)
if not _is_increment(rate.first_increment_seconds) or not _is_increment(rate.next_increment_seconds):
raise ValueError(
"billing increments must be 1 second or more, received %r/%r for prefix %s"
% (rate.first_increment_seconds, rate.next_increment_seconds, rate.prefix)
)
assert_same_currency(rates[0].per_minute, rate.per_minute)
assert_same_currency(rates[0].per_minute, rate.connection_fee)
assert_same_currency(rates[0].per_minute, rate.minimum_charge)
if number.startswith(rate.prefix) and (best is None or len(rate.prefix) > len(best.prefix)):
best = rate
if best is None:
raise ValueError("no rate for dialled number %s" % (number,))
currency = best.per_minute.currency
if duration_seconds == 0:
zero = money(0, currency)
return RatedCall(
prefix=best.prefix,
destination=best.destination,
billed_seconds=0,
usage_charge=zero,
connection_fee=zero,
total=zero,
)
first = best.first_increment_seconds
step = best.next_increment_seconds
if duration_seconds <= first:
billed_seconds = first
else:
billed_seconds = first + -(-(duration_seconds - first) // step) * step
usage = round_div(best.per_minute.minor * billed_seconds, 60, mode)
total = max(usage + best.connection_fee.minor, best.minimum_charge.minor)
return RatedCall(
prefix=best.prefix,
destination=best.destination,
billed_seconds=billed_seconds,
usage_charge=money(usage, currency),
connection_fee=best.connection_fee,
total=money(total, currency),
)Install
fune build
With that line in your source, in a Python project (language python in fune.project), fune build resolves it and its 2 dependencies, pins them in fune.lock, downloads only the Python package of each, and builds the code above into your project’s .fune/build, one readable file per capability with a header linking back here. Or pin a range in fune.project and build in one step:
fune add telecoms.call-rating
The manifest, vectors and README with only the Python implementation. Install it without the registry with fune add ./telecoms.call-rating-1.0.1-python.fune, or fetch it from a terminal with fune pull telecoms.call-rating@1.0.1:python.
The whole function, every language, is one file too: telecoms.call-rating-1.0.1.fune, 53,002 bytes, sha256 8ce31e9dc6f4de068db64d17e0eda321b01d477f7d60fd5f6aa692a6c936a440. It installs into a project of any language.
Customise it in your app
The seams this capability offers. Put a marker directly above a function of your own and fune build wires it into the built code; the package on the registry is not changed, the built file’s header lists it under CUSTOMISED, and fune hooks lists every hook in the project. How hooks work.
before — your function gets the arguments and returns them, changed or not, or throws to refuse the call.
# fune: before telecoms.call-rating
after — your function gets the result and the arguments, and returns the final result.
# fune: after telecoms.call-rating
replace — inside this capability’s code only, calls to a dependency go to your function, with the same signature. Other capabilities that use it are unaffected; write in * to replace it everywhere.
# fune: replace math.round-div in telecoms.call-rating
# fune: replace money.amount in telecoms.call-rating
step — your function runs at a numbered point inside the function’s body, receives the in-scope values it names as parameters, and may return replacements. List the points with fune show telecoms.call-rating --steps.
# fune: step telecoms.call-rating after <n|label>
Tests
A version published now needs at least 8 tests for every function, and one that expects the error for each function that throws; the registry refuses it otherwise. fune verify --all runs each case in TypeScript, Python and Rust, and a project runs them again with fune verify. This page lists the cases; it does not run them. The exact JSON is vectors.json.
| Case | Arguments | Expected | |
|---|---|---|---|
| a UK landline on 60/60: 125 seconds is billed as 3 minutes | +441632960001, 125, rates ×5, half-up | → | prefix 44, destination United Kingdom fixed, billed seconds 180, usage charge £0.30, connection fee £0.00, total £0.30 |
| exactly one minute on 60/60 is one minute | 441632960001, 60, rates ×5, half-up | → | prefix 44, destination United Kingdom fixed, billed seconds 60, usage charge £0.10, connection fee £0.00, total £0.10 |
| 61 seconds on 60/60 is billed as two minutes | 441632960001, 61, rates ×5, half-up | → | prefix 44, destination United Kingdom fixed, billed seconds 120, usage charge £0.20, connection fee £0.00, total £0.20 |
| a UK mobile matches 447, the longest prefix, not 44; 125 s on 30/6 is 126 s | +447700900123, 125, rates ×5, half-up | → | prefix 447, destination United Kingdom mobile, billed seconds 126, usage charge £0.53, connection fee £0.05, total £0.58 |
| the same call rounded down | 447700900123, 125, rates ×5, down | → | prefix 447, destination United Kingdom mobile, billed seconds 126, usage charge £0.52, connection fee £0.05, total £0.57 |
| a call inside the first increment is billed the whole first increment | 447700900123, 30, rates ×5, half-up | → | prefix 447, destination United Kingdom mobile, billed seconds 30, usage charge £0.13, connection fee £0.05, total £0.18 |
| one second past the first increment adds one 6-second block | 447700900123, 31, rates ×5, half-up | → | prefix 447, destination United Kingdom mobile, billed seconds 36, usage charge £0.15, connection fee £0.05, total £0.20 |
| per-second billing on 1/1 | 12025550123, 61, rates ×5, half-up | → | prefix 1, destination USA and Canada, billed seconds 61, usage charge £0.05, connection fee £0.00, total £0.05 |
| the same per-second call rounded up | 12025550123, 61, rates ×5, up | → | prefix 1, destination USA and Canada, billed seconds 61, usage charge £0.06, connection fee £0.00, total £0.06 |
| a short call to France is raised to the minimum charge | 33142685300, 10, rates ×5, half-up | → | prefix 33, destination France fixed, billed seconds 30, usage charge £0.06, connection fee £0.00, total £0.20 |
Show the other 12 tests
| Case | Arguments | Expected | |
|---|---|---|---|
| a French mobile with a connection fee | 33612345678, 59, rates ×5, half-up | → | prefix 336, destination France mobile, billed seconds 60, usage charge £0.30, connection fee £0.10, total £0.40 |
| an unanswered call costs nothing, minimum charge included | 33142685300, 0, rates ×5, half-up | → | prefix 33, destination France fixed, billed seconds 0, usage charge £0.00, connection fee £0.00, total £0.00 |
| a number no prefix matches is an error | 81312345678, 60, rates ×5, half-up | → | error: no rate for dialled number 81312345678 |
| a number with punctuation is an error | 44-20-7946-0000, 60, rates ×5, half-up | → | error: dialled number must be international format digits |
| a negative duration is an error | 441632960001, -1, rates ×5, half-up | → | error: duration must be whole seconds of 0 or more |
| a duplicate prefix in the deck is an error | 441632960001, 60, rates ×6, half-up | → | error: duplicate prefix 44 |
| a zero billing increment is an error | 441632960001, 60, rates ×1, half-up | → | error: billing increments must be 1 second or more |
| a deck in two currencies is an error | 441632960001, 60, rates ×2, half-up | → | error: currency mismatch |
| an unknown rounding mode is an error | 441632960001, 60, rates ×5, nearest | → | error: unknown rounding mode |
| a trailing newline is not part of a dialled number | 442079460000 , 60, rates ×5, half-up | → | error: dialled number must be international format digits |
| a trailing newline after a leading + is not part of a dialled number | +442079460000 , 60, rates ×5, half-up | → | error: dialled number must be international format digits |
| a trailing newline is not part of a rate prefix | 441632960001, 60, rates ×1, half-up | → | error: rate prefix must be digits |
More from the author
An unanswered call (0 seconds) is not charged at all: no connection fee, no minimum. Prices are per minute in minor units, so a rate of 0.5p a minute cannot be written; use a deck in a smaller currency unit if you need one.
The rate deck is an argument because every operator has its own and changes it often; this capability holds no rates of its own. Deck rows are checked on every call: prefixes must be digits and unique, increments at least 1 second, and every price in one currency.
Errors: no matching prefix, a dialled number that is not digits, a negative duration, a duplicate or non-numeric prefix, an increment below 1, mixed currencies, and an unknown rounding mode.
1.0.1 fixes Python accepting a trailing newline in dialledNumber and a rate's prefix; adds tests.
Files
| Path | Bytes |
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| README.md | 2,035 |
| impl/python.py | 3,341 |
| impl/rust.rs | 4,591 |
| impl/typescript.ts | 3,001 |
| vectors.json | 31,244 |