ITU Operational Bulletin No. 686 – 15.II.1999 (Information received by 8 February 1999) Published by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Tf: National (022) 730 5111 Place des Nations CH-1211 Genève 20 (Switzerland) International +4122 730 5111 Tg: Itu Genève Tlx: 421000 uit ch Fax: +41 22 730 58 53 +41 22 733 72 56 E-mail: [email protected] http://www.itu.int/itudoc/itu-t/ob-lists F.400 / X.400: S=itumail; P=itu; A=400net; C=ch Dates of publication of the next Operational Bulletins Including information received by: No. 687 1.III.1999 22.II.1999 No. 688 15.III.1999 8.III.1999 No. 689 1.IV.1999 25.III.1999 Contents General information (SG) New ITU leadership takes office at ITU headquarters, Geneva (Switzerland), on 1 February 1999 (TSB) Lists annexed to Operational Bulletin: Note from the TSB (TSB) Approval and deletion of ITU-T Recommendations (BR) Maritime Mobile Service: France, Iceland, Mauritius (TSB) Legal time changes (TSB) Assignment of Signalling Area/Network Codes (SANC) (ITU-T Recommendation Q.708): United States (TSB) Telex Service / Telegram Service: Ascension (CTITU B02 of 8.II.1999) – Cable and Wireless Plc, Ascension Island, Georgetown: Closure of Telex Service / Cable and Wireless, Ascension Island, Georgetown: Closure of Telegram Service (TSB) Telephone Service: Antigua-and-Barbuda (Cable and Wireless, St. John’s), Denmark (National Telecom Agency, Copenhagen), Egypt (National Telecommunication Organization, Telecom Egypt, Cairo), United Arab Emirates (Etisalat, The Emirates Telecommunications Corporation Ltd., Abu Dhabi – Seven-digit Telephone Numbering Plan in United Arab Emirates), Greenland (TELE Greenland A/S, Nuuk), Kazakstan (Ministry of Transport and Communication, Akmola), Malaysia (Telekom Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur), Netherlands (KPN Telecom B.V., The Hague), Qatar (Qatar Telecom QSC – Q-TEL, Doha) (TSB) Changes in Administrations/ROAs and other entities or Organizations: Korea (Rep. of) (Korea Telecom, Songnam City), Slovakia (Ministry of Transport, Posts and Telecommunications, Bratislava, Slovak Telecom) (BR) Other communications: – Optional provision No. 2731: Cameroon (TSB) – Public holidays in 1999: Israel, New Zealand, Sweden, Syria, Vatican (TSB) Service Restrictions: Note from the TSB (TSB) Call-Back: Sudan (Ministry of Roads and Communication, Khartoum), Note from the TSB 686-E / 1 Amendments to service documents (BR) Optional Provision No. 2731 of the Radio Regulations (BR) List of Coast Stations (List IV) (TSB) List of International Carrier Codes (TSB) List of International Signalling Point Codes (ISPC) (TSB) List of Signalling Area/Network Codes (SANC) Annex (TSB) List of International Signalling Point Codes (ISPC) (According to ITU-T Recommendation Q.708) (Position on 15 February 1999) ____________ Subjects preceded by the letters (BR) are dealt with by the Radiocommunication Bureau (BR), contact: TF +41 22 730 5217 FAX +41 22 730 5785 Subjects preceded by the letters (TSB) are dealt with by the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB), contact: TF +41 22 730 5212 FAX +41 22 730 5853 ITU OB 686-E / 2 GENERAL INFORMATION New ITU leadership takes office at ITU headquarters, Geneva (Switzerland), on 1 February 1999 ITU’s new Secretary-General, Mr. Yoshio Utsumi, together with the organization’s other four top- ranking officials, took office on 1 February 1999. The new team was elected by the Union’s Member States at the organization’s 15th Plenipotentiary Conference, held in Minneapolis (United States) in October 1998. In addition to Secretary-General, Mr. Utsumi (Japan), the team comprises Deputy Secretary-General Mr. Roberto Blois (Brazil) and the Directors of ITU’s three Bureaux, namely Mr. Robert Jones (Canada), re- elected as Director of the Radiocommunication Bureau (BR), Mr. Houlin Zhao (China), Director of the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB) and Mr. Hamadoun Touré (Mali), Director of the Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT). Lists annexed to Operational Bulletin Note from the TSB The following Lists* have been published as Annexes to the ITU Operational Bulletin (OB): OB No. 590 List of Telex Destination Codes (TDC) and Telex Network Identification Codes (TNIC) (Position on 31 December 1994) – Complement to ITU-T Recommendations F.69 and F.68 644 List of Telegram Destination Indicators (In accordance with ITU-T Recommen- dation F.32) (Position on 1 May 1997) 656 List of International Carrier Codes (According to ITU-T Recommendation M.1400) (Position on 15 November 1997) 658 List of ITU-T Recommendation E.164 assigned Country Codes (Complement to ITU-T Recommendation E.164 (05/97)) (Position on 15 December 1997) 659 List of Data Country or Geographical Area Codes (Complement to ITU-T Recommendation X.121) (Position on 31 December 1997) 663 List of Names of Administration Management Domains (ADMD) (In accordance with ITU-T F.400 and X.400 Series Recommendations) (Position on 28 February 1998) 665 Various tones used in national networks (Supplement 2 to ITU-T Recommendation E.180) (Position on 1 April 1998) 667 List of International Signalling Point Codes (ISPC) (According to ITU-T Recommendation Q.708) (Position on 1 May 1998) 669 Five-letter Code Groups for the use of the International Public Telegram Service (According to ITU-T Recommendation F.1 (03/98)) 674 Status of Radiocommunications between Amateur Stations of different countries (In accordance with optional provision No. 2731 of the Radio Regulations) (Position on 15 August 1998) 677 List of Issuer Identifier Numbers for the international telecommunication charge card (In accordance with ITU-T Recommendation E.118) (Position on 1 October 1998) ITU OB 686-E / 3 679 Dialling Procedures (International prefix, national (trunk) prefix and national (significant) number) (In accordance with ITU-T Recommendation E.164) (Position on 1 November 1998) 682 List of Signalling Area/Network Codes (SANC) (Complement to ITU-T Recommendation Q.708) (Position on 15 December 1998) 684 List of Data Network Identification Codes (DNIC) (According to ITU-T Recommendation X.121) (Position on 15 January 1999) 685 List of Mobile Country or Geographical Area Codes (Complement to ITU-T Recommendation E.212) (Position on 1 February 1999) 686 List of International Signalling Point Codes (ISPC) (According to ITU-T Recommendation Q.708) (Position on 15 February 1999) ____________ * For information, all lists will be updated by numbered series of amendments published in the ITU Operational Bulletin, and will be reissued as necessary. Furthermore, the lists can be consulted online (http://www.itu.int/itudoc/itu-t/ob-lists) in the ITU document database, under the heading “Operational Bulletin and Lists annexed”. Approval and deletion of ITU-T Recommendations* A. In accordance with procedures outlined in Resolution 1, Section 8, of the WTSC-96 (Geneva, 1996), the following Recommendations were approved: – ITU-T Recommendation D.4: Special conditions applicable to the lease of international radio and television circuits for private use – ITU-T Recommendation D.140, Annex B: Guidelines regarding the provision of information relating to accounting rates for the international automatic telephone service – ITU-T Recommendation D.211: International accounting for the use of the signal transfer and/or signal relay point in Signalling System No. 7 B. In accordance with procedures outlined in Resolution 1, Section 8, of the WTSC-96 (Geneva, 1996), the following Recommendations were deleted: – D.400R and D.401R ____________ * See TSB Circulars 165 of 16 December 1998 and 166 of 17 December 1998. Maritime Mobile Service France Communication of 28.I.1999: France Télécom announces the closure, as from 1st February 1999 at 0000 h UTC, of all MF radiomaritime operations for the areas served by the coast stations MARSEILLE RADIO, GRASSE RADIO and ARCACHON RADIO. However a public correspondence service on VHF will continue to be provided by these stations. Watch-keeping on the distress frequency 2182 kHz, broadcasting of weather reports and urgent navigational warnings for the whole of Metropolitan France, will be transferred on this date to regional centres of operations for surveillance and marine rescue (MRCC), under the responsibility of the Minister in charge of maritime affairs. Iceland Communication of 26.I.1999: The Post and Telecom Administration announces the closure of the Morse radiotelegraphy service on 500 kHz distress frequency as from 1st February 1999. This service was provided by Iceland Telecom Ltd. ITU OB 686-E / 4 Mauritius Communication of 2.II.1999: Wireless Superintendent announces that, as from 31st January 1999 at 2000 h UTC, the coast station MAURITIUS RADIO (3BM) has ceased all MF and HF radiotelegraphy transmissions. Legal time changes + = Advanced Date and hour of change Country or area by - - minutes Legal time – = Retarded will be by - - minutes 21.II.1999 1400 UTC Brésil / Brazil / Brasil Rio Grande do Sul; Santa Catarina; Paraná; São Paulo; Rio de Janeiro; Espírito Santo; Goiás; Minas Gerais; Mato Grosso; Mato Grosso do Sul; Tocantins; Bahia and Distrito Federal – 60 UTC –3 inchangé/no change/sin cambio: – Other States – UTC –3 28.II.1999 Fidji /Fiji / Fiji – 60 UTC +12 21.III.1999 - 3.X.1999 Nouvelle-Zélande /New Zealand Nueva Zelandia – 60 UTC +12 26.III.1999 1800 UTC - 29.X.1999 1700 UTC Kazakstan / Kazakstan / Kazakstán + 60 UTC +7 27.III.1999 2200 UTC Liban / Lebanon / Líbano + 60 UTC +3 27.III.1999 2201 UTC - 23.X.1999 2100 UTC Chypre / Cyprus / Chipre + 60 UTC +3 27.III.1999 2300 UTC - 30.X.1999