Telecoms Action Plan, 25 August 2015

Telecoms Action Plan

Annex 1: text of ITU bulletin

With the agreement of the Administration of the Republic of Serbia, the Director of TSB has assigned the following international codes to Kosovo:

E.164 Code (as defined in Recommendation ITU-TE. 164 section 4.1): 383

E.212 Code (as defined in Recommendation ITU-TE. 212 section 3.3): 221

Q.708 signalling area network code (SANC): 7-214

The Activation dates of these codes and the transition from the currently-used codes to these assigned codes will be advised later.

Annex 2: text of Austrian letter to the ITU

Dear Secretary-General,

In the framework of the EU-facilitaded Dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia, I have the honour of requesting, on behalf of Serbia and Kosovo, that the International Telecommunications Union begins the process of allocating a 3 digit dial code to Kosovo.

As part of the aforementioned dialogue,the Prime Ministers of Kosovo and Serbia reached an agreement in Septembar 2013 that Kosovo should be allocated a 3 digit dial code, in line with the standards and principles and timetable of the ITU. Both sides also agreed that a mutually accepted modality would be found regarding this process, with EU facilitation as necessary. I would like to inform you that this mutually accepted modality be that the Republic of Austria requests this code for Kosovo.

I would be grateful if you could proceed, as quickly as possible, to allocate one of the two unallocated codes (+383 or +384) for use by the Kosovo authorities. I would also be grateful if you could confirm that the ITU bulletin has been published.

Yours sincerely,

Annex 3: denomination of Kosovo in the ITU's technical annexes

In the technical annexes to the ITU's bulletins, Kosovo will be referred to as Kosovo* with the footnote "This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in the line with UNSCR 1244 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence."