GENERAL INFORMATION Lists annexed to the ITU Operational Bulletin

GENERAL INFORMATION

Lists annexed to the ITU Operational Bulletin

A. The following Lists have been published by TSB or BR as Annexes to the ITU Operational Bulletin (OB):

968 Status of Radiocommunications between Amateur Stations of Different Countries (In accordance with optional provision No. 25.1 of the Radio Regulations) and Form of Call Signs assigned by each Administration to its Amateur and Experimental Stations (Position on 15 november 2010)

967 Access codes/numbers for mobile networks (According to ITU-T Recommendation E.164 (02/2005)) (Position on 1 November 2010)

965 List of Signalling Area/Network Codes (SANC) (Complement to ITU-T Recommendation Q.708 (03/99)) (Position on 1 October 2010)

958 Mobile Network Code (MNC) for the international identification plan for public networks and subscriptions (According to ITU-T Recommendation E.212 (05/2008)) (Position on 15 June 2010)

956 List of international signalling point codes (ISPC) (According to ITU-T Recommendation Q.708 (03/99)) (Position on 15 May 2010)

955 Various tones used in national networks (According to ITU-T Recommendation E.180 (03/98)) (Position on 1 May 2010)

954 Legal time 2010

953 List of mobile country or geographical area codes (Complement to ITUT Recommendation E.212 (05/2008)) (Position on 1 April 2010).

952 List of the national authorities designated to assign ITU-T Recommendation T.35 terminal provider codes (Position on 15 March 2010)

951 Dialling Procedures (International prefix, national (trunk) prefix and national (significant) number) (In accordance with ITU-T Recommendation E.164 (02/2005)) (Position on 1 March 2010)

930 List of ITU-T Recommendation E.164 assigned country codes (Complement to ITUT Recommendation E.164 (02/2005)) (Position on 15 April 2009)

919 List of Issuer Identifier Numbers for the International Telecommunication Charge Card (In accordance with ITU-T Recommendation E.118 (05/2006)) (Position on 1 November 2008)

899 List of terrestrial trunk radio mobile country codes (Complement to ITU-T Recommendation E.218 (05/2004)) (Position on 1 January 2008)

880 List of Names of Administration Management Domains (ADMD) (In accordance with ITUT F.400 and X.400 series Recommendations) (Position on 15 March 2007)

879 List of Telegram Destination Indicators (In accordance with ITU-T Recommendation F.32 (10/1995)) (Position on 1 March 2007)

878 List of Telex Destination Codes (TDC) and Telex Network Identification Codes (TNIC)  (Complement to ITU-T Recommendations F.69 (06/1994) and F.68 (11/1988)) (Position on 15 February 2007)

877 List of Country or Geographical Area Codes for non-standard facilities in telematic services (Complement to ITU-T Recommendation T.35 (02/2000)) (Position on 1 February 2007)

876 List of Data Network Identification Codes (DNIC) (According to ITU-T Recommendation X.121 (10/2000)) (Position on 15 January 2007)

875 List of Data Country or Geographical Area Codes (Complement to ITUT Recommendation X.121 (10/2000)) (Position on 1 January 2007)

669 Five-letter Code Groups for the use of the International Public Telegram Service (According to ITU-T Recommendation F.1 (03/1998))

B. The following Lists are available online from the ITU-T website:

List of ITU Carrier Codes (ITU-T Rec. M.1400 (07/2006)) www.itu.int/ITU-T/inr/icc/index.html

Bureaufax Table (ITU-T Rec. F.170) www.itu.int/ITU-T/inr/bureaufax/index.html

List of recognized operating agencies (ROAs) www.itu.int/ITU-T/inr/roa/index.html

Approval of ITU-T Recommendations

– Recommendation ITU-T G.992.3 (2009) Amend. 3 (29/11/2010): Scale factor for downstream transmitter referred virtual noise, and corrigenda

– Recommendation ITU-T G.992.5 (2009) Cor. 1 (29/11/2010): Upstream optional D0 values

– Recommendation ITU-T G.993.2 (2006) Amend. 6 (29/11/2010): New Annex X and revision of CI policy

– Recommendation ITU-T G.994.1 (2007) Amend. 6 (29/11/2010): New code points and correction of D0 values

– Recommendation ITU-T G.997.1 (2009) Amend. 2 (29/11/2010): New channel initialization policies

– Recommendation ITU-T G.998.4 (2010) Cor. 1 (29/11/2010): Clarification of the definition of actual INP

– Recommendation ITU-T Q.3311 (14/10/2010): Enhancement of resource and admission control protocols to use pre-congestion notification (PCN)

– Recommendation ITU-T Q.3312 (14/10/2010): Use of the access node control protocol (ANCP) on the Rp interface

B. By TSB Circular 151 of 23 November 2010, it was announced that the following ITU-T Recommendations were approved, in accordance with the procedures outlined in Resolution 1:

– Recommendation ITU-T E.164 (18/11/2010): The international public telecommunication numbering plan (16.09.2010): NGN identity management requirements and use cases

– Recommendation ITU-T E.212 (2008) Amend. 2 (18/11/2010): Revised Annex F – Illustration of uses of E.212 resources

Mobile Country or Geographical Area Codes
(Recommendation ITU-T E.212)

Communication of 19 November 2010

TSB Circular 87 on Patent apparently involving use of unassigned E.212 Mobile Country Code (MCCs) was issued on 2 February 2010. The patent was filed with the World International Property Organization on 6 April 2005, as number PCT/EP2005/003612.

A previous notice regarding this matter appeared in Operational Bulletin 951 of 1.III.2010.

On the basis of contributions from the membership and discussion, ITU-T Study Group 2 agreed on 18 November 2010 that the practice described in the patent is not consistent with the use of Recommendation E.212 and IMSIs because the Recommendation specifies that such resources (MCC) must be duly assigned by the ITU-T prior to these being used in any system. As the patent relies on resources marked “spare” in the international identification plan E.212 that are likely to be assigned in the future by the ITU-T, such a mechanism must not be implemented in a system that refers to Recommendation E.212.
In particular, Study Group 2 agreed that:

a) The use of the unassigned international numbering resources as proposed in the patent would contravene basic principles of resource management and E.212 in particular and whether this would be known to those skilled in the art.

b) The use of numbering resources proposed in the patent is absolutely not workable even though 800-899 and 902-999 are reserved or spare now, in particular because it would not be practical to make almost 20% of the E.212 code space unusable in order to support applications that were developed apparently in contravention of ITU-T Recommendations and procedures.

c) The patent implicitly does not meet requirements for E.212 international numbering resources for SIMs, for example, the MCC value is preferably associated to a kind of a mobile device, and the MNC value is associated to one or a family of functionalities of such devices.