No. 27.... September 1996
Issued by the Oftel Numbering Unit
50 Ludgate Hill, London, EC4M 7JJ
Enquiries - Telephone: 0171 634 8758; Fax: 0171 634 8943
Numbering Bulletins are published monthly by the Oftel Numbering Unit.
Issued by the Oftel Numbering Unit
50 Ludgate Hill, London, EC4M 7JJ
Enquiries - Telephone: 0171 634 8758; Fax: 0171 634 8943
The public consultation on the Review of the Numbering Scheme is underway. The closing date for responses is Friday 18 October. The responses will then be placed in Oftel's library. There will be a further period up to Thursday 31 October for comments on any submissions made to Oftel during the initial period.
A meeting of the Numbering Advisory Group is to be held at Oftel on Tuesday 22 October.
The Numbering Unit is receiving an increasing volume of calls from Operators and others requiring detail on allocations under the Specified Numbering Scheme. Callers are reminded that this information is readily available on the Internet in several places, either on the Oftel home pages, or in easily browsed tables on the Warwick University pages. In many cases calls have been received from Operators who have already been sent the SNS disk, and we regret that in future, such enquiries will be referred to the Internet pages.
Warwick University pages: http://www.warwick.ac.uk/WWW/search/Phones/oftel_cl.html
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/cgi-bin-Phones/nng
(note that the above URL addresses may be case sensitive)
Andrew Antoniou and Sally Trebble both left the Numbering Unit during September. Elizabeth Greenberg has replaced Andrew. Also, responsibility within Oftel for portability of mobile and non-geographic services has been transferred to the Numbering Unit from the Licence Enforcement and Fair Trading Branch; Adam Jackson has joined the Unit to lead on the issue. Adam's telephone number is 0171 634 8875. Watch out for news of more additions to the team in future issues!
Operators have informed the Numbering Unit of their current plans for changing CLI presentation from the 01734 XXXXXX format to the 0118 9XX XXX format. These are being notified to all operators, approved maintainers, TUA and TMA so that any necessary action on terminal equipment may be put in hand. The current plans follow. Where a more general indication of the date of changeover is given, this will be updated in a future Numbering Bulletin when the information is available from the operator concerned. Should the plans need to be changed for network operational reasons details of the change will also be published in the ensuing Numbering Bulletin.
Date 1000 Number Blocks
1 Oct 1996 361, 362, 50X, 520, 521, 522, 523, 525, 53X, 55X, 56X, 57X, 58X, 59X,
770, 775, 776, 79X, 83X, 895, 896
9 Oct 1996 21X, 27X, 322, 39X, 45X, 51X, 524, 526, 600, 601, 603, 604, 605, 606,
607, 608, 69X, 85X, 86X
19/20 Oct 1996 54X, 61X, 62X, 67X
22 Oct 1996 33X, 385, 42X, 43X, 46X, 48X, 71X, 87X
29 Oct 1996 20X, 22X, 23X, 241, 292, 293, 30X, 31X, 320, 321, 323, 326, 327, 329,
351, 352, 353, 354, 355, 357, 359, 44X, 602, 75X
1-5 Nov 1996 80X
5 Nov 1996 242, 41X, 72X, 744, 745
12 Nov 1996 363, 364, 365, 742, 743, 771, 772, 773, 774, 778, 779, 78X, 890, 891,
892, 893, 894, 897, 898, 899
France
A new Numbering Plan is being introduced in France on 18 October 1996. For more information, refer to Mrs Laurence Blow, Communications Manager at France Telecom on 0171 413 8035.
Finland
New area codes are to be introduced in Finland on 12 October 1996. For more information, refer to Telecom Finland on +358 800 8353.
The European Commission's Green Paper on numbering is now expected to be issued during November. It is expected to cover issues related to the introduction of liberalisation, such as portability and carrier selection codes and methods, and to the introduction of European Telephony Numbering Space.
International Freephone numbers are administered by the ITU-T Telecommunications Standards Bureau (TSB) in Geneva.
TSB can be contacted at:
Telecommunications Standards Bureau TSB/ART
Place Des Nations
CH-1211
Geneva 20
Switzerland
Fax: +41 22 730 5853
Tel: +41 22 730 5211
E-mail: mfat@itu.ch
Alternatively, detailed information including an application form can be downloaded from the Internet. Starting with the ITU-T homepage (http://www.itu.com/), select the search button and enter 'International Freephone'. This gives 28 references.
The requirements for numbering capacity to meet an increasing variety of services in the Special Services Numbering Range has grown over the last few months and some readers may be unaware of the most recent additions. Therefore, the current position for common number ranges designated in the Special Services Numbering Range is summarised below:
0800 Freephone, 10 digit numbers (specific blocks - details on the SNS)
0845 Local Rate, 10 digit numbers
0866 Regional Rate, 10 digit numbers
0870 National Rate, 10 digit numbers
0890 Premium Rate, timed call, 10 digit numbers
08950-08954 Premium Rate, untimed call up to 50p, 10 digit numbers
08955-08959 Premium Rate, untimed call under £1, 10 digit numbers
08960-08964 Premium Rate, timed call £1 per minute and over, 10 digit numbers
08965-08969 Premium Rate, untimed call £1 and over, 10 digit numbers
0930 Premium Rate, 9 digit numbers
0991 Higher Premium Rate, 9 digit numbers
In order to exercise good husbandry of the numbering resource, allocations of geographic numbering capacity will only be made in decades which are already open unless there is insufficient capacity to meet the requirement.
As the proposed 'Find me anywhere' range 07 would combine the current Mobile, Paging and Personal Numbering in a common code, new Mobile allocations will continue to be made in the 9-digit scheme pending the outcome of the consultation. This is to facilitate migration to new ranges once these have been agreed.
Recovery of Area Codes
The following Area Codes, previously shown as Protected, are now listed as Free on the Specified Numbering Scheme:- 1496, 1601, 1605, 1627, 1679, 1755, 1781, 1804, 1867, 1906, 1936
Changes made to the Specified Numbering Scheme during September 1996 are summarised below:
Area Numbering Range
Allocations 38
Reservations 1
Other Changes 722
Mobiles Numbering Range
Allocations 1
Reservations 10
Other Changes 1
Personal Numbering Range
Allocations 1
Reservations 1
Other Changes 0
Special Services Numbering Range
Allocations 4
Reservations 0
Other Changes 0
Access Codes
Allocations 0
Reservations 0
Other Changes 3
Total Number of Changes 743