The first meeting of the working group on Numbering and Networks (WG NaN) was held last 24-25 November in Luxembourg. This WG resulted from the merger of the working group on Numbering, Names and Addressing (WG NNA) and the project team on Technical Regulation and Interconnection Standards (PT-TRIS). Most of the participants in WG NaN are regulators from various countries in the enlarged Europe. Group discussions focus on numbering issues and identifying the impact of technological developments on regulation. The drafting of recommendations, reports and decisions on subjects of common interest is part of this group’s activity.
Highlights of this first WG NaN meeting include the following:
- Adoption after public consultation of the following reports:
- “Number Portability Efficiency”, analysing application of the new regulatory framework, particularly paragraph 4 of article 30 of the Universal Service (US) Directive, which establishes times associated to operator portability. Also indicated are generic measures to improve portability efficiency;
- “Numbering and Addressing in M2M Communications”, identifying numbering/addressing solutions to accommodate communication services/machine to machine (M2M) applications;
- “Evolution of geographical numbers”, which considers aspects concerning geographic numbering, analysing and describing aspects and impacts associated to the loss of numbers’ geographic meaning.
- “Number Portability Efficiency”, analysing application of the new regulatory framework, particularly paragraph 4 of article 30 of the Universal Service (US) Directive, which establishes times associated to operator portability. Also indicated are generic measures to improve portability efficiency;
These documents will be submitted by WG NaN for final approval at the March 2011 plenary meeting of the Electronic Communications Committee in Portugal, and later be posted on the website of the European Communications Office (ECO)https://docdb.cept.org/document/category/ECC_Decisions?status=ACTIVE;
- Approval for public consultation of the following ECC documents:
- “ECC Decision on reserving the national number range 111 for Long Term European Harmonisation Purposes”, which decides to reserve the number ‘111’ in the national numbering plan;
- “ECC Recommendation on Calling Line Identification and Originating Identification”, which proposes a set of recommendations to make CLI/OI identification more reliable, especially due to the growing use of new technologies in communication networks, including next generation networks;
- “ECC Recommendation on Numbering and Addressing for M2M communications”, which proposes a set of measures to take into account which reproduce conclusions from the (above mentioned) report approved on this matter.
- “ECC Decision on reserving the national number range 111 for Long Term European Harmonisation Purposes”, which decides to reserve the number ‘111’ in the national numbering plan;
Public consultation of these documents will be made possible on the ECO website.
