The 12th meeting of the ECC working group on Numbering and Networks (WG NaN) was held on 27-28 April in Jurmala, Latvia. WG NaN is a working group in which regulators participate, debating subjects of common interest concerning numbering and the impact of technological developments on regulation of the electronic communications sector.
A highlight was final approval of the following documents after the respective public consultation:
- ECC Recommendation (16)01 - 3rd Party Use of Number Portability Data (NP Data), which conveys the conclusions set out in ECC Report 238 - 3rd Party Use of Number Portability Data and recommends for communications routing effects (more efficient) and/or to increase price transparency, especially for end users, that entities currently unable to access portability data might now, under certain conditions, be provided some of that information;
- ECC Recommendation (16)02 - Extra Territorial Use of E 164 Numbers - High Level Principles of Assignment, which determines a set of (high-level) principles. Used on an exceptional basis and under certain conditions they would enable a country to allow use of numbers from its national telecommunications plan (in accordance with Recommendation E.164 of the International Telecommunication Union Standardisation Sector) in another country;
- ECC Report 248 - Evolution in CLI Usage - Decoupling of Rights of Use of Numbers from Service Provision, which as a consequence of technological and market (i.e. new players) evolution presents several situations in which numbering resources are used to provide various communication services and analyses the eventual impacts and challenges, specifically at regulatory level, that such use can bring about under the current European regulatory framework.
These documents will be posted in due time on the website of the European Communications office (ECO), documental database, at http://www.ecodocdb.dk/ http://www.ecodocdb.dk/.
Also approved for public consultation was the Draft ECC Report - Harmonised Implementation of A-GNSS in Europe to Provide Enhanced Emergency Caller Location Information, which examines the use of global navigation satellite system capabilities to improve the quality and precision of location-finding information supplied to emergency services in the event of calls originating in mobile terminals.
That public consultation will be disclosed in due time on the ECO website (http://www.cept.org/ecc/tools-and-services/ecc-public-consultation https://cept.org/ecc/tools-and-services/ecc-consultation); eventual interested parties will be able to respond within the given periods and directly to the ECO contact point indicated at that address.
