Swap deals
Exchange traffic. Settle the difference.
A swap turns two carriers' strengths into each other's routes. You terminate our minutes into your markets, we terminate yours into ours — and at the end of the cycle, one net payment settles the balance.
In our books
carriers both buy from us and sell to us.
Counted from our customer and supplier invoices.
How it works
Two directions of traffic. One payment.
Both sides price what they carried under the agreed rates. Where the agreement provides for net settlement, the totals are reconciled and the agreed balance is paid.
Example figures
Why carriers swap
An arrangement for operators with routes to exchange.
Net settlement
Credit works both ways
Routes you cannot buy
The margin stays in the route
Risks to address in a swap
- No agreed minute. One side counts 4.2 million, the other 3.9 million, and nobody defined in advance which record decides.
- A drifting balance, noticed only when one side is carrying the other for six figures.
- Rates that move on one side, until a balanced deal quietly becomes a subsidy.
- Netting never done — two sets of invoices left unpaid, each side waiting for the other.
How we prevent it
- A real ledger, not a spreadsheet: a counterparty's balance is a figure we produce on any day of the month.
- Every call costed as it ends, at both rates, so the imbalance is visible while it forms.
- Supplier invoices reconciled against our own count of the same calls before anything is settled.
- Rate changes on either side dated and applied through the same system that rates the traffic.
Our method
Six terms, agreed before the first call.
- 01
Scope
Which destinations each side carries, at which rates, in which increments and currency — and the exchange-rate source when there are two.
- 02
The billable minute
Rounding, increments, partial minutes, which record is authoritative when the two disagree, and the tolerance below which nobody argues.
- 03
An imbalance ceiling
A limit in value, and what happens when it is reached: rates change, volume is throttled, or a payment is made.
- 04
One reconciliation cycle
Traffic totals exchanged and compared before invoices are cut, not after.
- 05
Settlement
The difference paid on a date, in a currency, to an account both sides hold on file. Once.
- 06
Exit
Either side can end a swap that has become one-sided, with the balance settled in cash.
FAQ
Swap deals, in short.
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Next step
Have a route we need? Let's trade.
Tell us which markets you terminate well and which you need. We will say quickly whether there is a balanced swap between us.