The 11th meeting of the ECC working group on Numbering and Networks (WG NaN) was held last 29-30 October in Vienna. Regulators participate in WG NaN, which debates issues of common interest concerning numbering and the impact of technological developments on regulation.
A highlight was the final approval of ECC Report 238 on third party use of number portability data, after the respective public consultation was held. The document examines major aspects and impacts that might justify giving access to portability data, for the purpose of (more efficient) routing of calls and messages, to entities currently barred from that information, and the terms and conditions whereby that access might become available. The document will be published in due time on the ECO website (Documentation Database http://www.ecodocdb.dk/).
The following documents were also approved for public consultation:
- Draft ECC Report - Evolution in CLI usage - decoupling of rights of use of numbers from service provision, which owing to technological and market evolution (e.g. new players) in the communications sector, presents several situations in which numbering resources are used to provide different electronic communication services and analyses eventual impacts and challenges, specifically at regulatory level, that such use may bring about under the current European regulatory framework;
- Draft ECC Recommendation - Extra-territorial use of E.164 numbers - High Level Principles of Assignment and Use, which aims to take a step toward increasing the transparency of extra-territorial use of national numbers by determining a set of key (high level) principles meant to harmonise and govern the possibility, under certain conditions, of assigning and using numbers from the national telecommunications plan of one country in another country (per ITU-T Recommendation E.164);
- Draft ECC Recommendation - 3rd Party Use of Number Portability Data, which reflects results and conclusions set out in the aforementioned Report 238.
These public consultations have been disclosed on the ECO website http://www.cept.org/ecc/tools-and-services/ecc-public-consultation. Interested parties can respond to the indicated ECO contact point up to 18 January 2016.
