September 2000

International Accounting Rates

1 The table of international accounting rates is the latest to be published in accordance with the Statement on the Collection and Publication by Oftel of
International Call Information (July 1998) (the “Statement”).

2 The current published rates are for 1 January 2000.

3 Separate tables are given for IDD and for ISDN rates.

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International Direct Dialled calls per minute
ISDN service, per minute

Explanatory Notes

4 International accounting rates are the traditional basis of the payments made by international telephone operators to each other for the delivery of international calls.
The originating operator pays the terminating operator an agreed amount per minute, known as the settlement rate. The accounting rate is the sum of the settlement rate in each direction (usually the same) plus the costs of transit via a third country (if any).

5 This table shows only rates agreed on the bilateral correspondent agreement basis described above. In accordance with the Statement, rates for most operators
have not been published for routes which the Director considers to be “liberalised”. Since most of the routes for which the new licensees have accounting rate agreements in place are such “liberalised” routes, this means that few of the new licensees’ rates have been published. However, BT’s rates have been published on all routes.

6 In the case of Cable and Wireless Communications (CWC) rates on “liberalised” routes have not been published pending the outcome of the current review of
their Well Established International Operator (WEIO) status (see the Statement for a definition). Once the review is complete, rates will be published retrospectively for all of CWC’s routes on which they are deemed to continue to have WEIO status.