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WG NaN Stocktaking Paper
WG NaN Activities in Harmonisation in Numbering
5th WG NaN meeting
Stockholm, 21-22 November 2012
Jan Vannieuwenhuyse, Jukka Rakkolainen
Introduction
 The WG NaN, 4th meeting in Dubrovnik in May 2012
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Decision to stop harmonisation activities for numbering ranges
beginning with ”1”
Decision to document activities in harmonisation in numbering
 NaN(2012)030: WG NaN Stocktaking Paper
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Harmonisation Activities 1970 – 2000
 CEPT: Long Term Standardisation of National Numbering Plans
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First version in 1972
00 / 0 / 112 / 115 / 118
 ECTRA/REC(97)01: ” Numbering Access to Voice Directory Enquiry
Services” – designating 118
 ETO: Harmonisation of Short Codes in Europe
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1998
Short numbers which are short telephone numbers;
Prefixes, which are always followed by a telephone number;
Access codes, which are always the first part of a telephone number or
a prefix
 A vague trial to start harmonisation activities after the ETO report
failed because of lack of interest
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European Commission and ”00” and ”112”
 Council Decision of 29 July 1991 on the introduction of a single
European emergency call number (91/396/EEC)
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“112”
 Council Decision of 11 May 1992 on the introduction of a standard
international telephone access code in the Community
(92/264/EEC)
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”00”
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HESC
 European Commission’s idea of ”Card Stop Europe project” in 2003
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a universal international freephone number
an ETNS number
a three-digit ‘11x’ national number
Germany: 116 116 (2004)
 The WG NNA created a new Project Team Harmonised European
Short Codes (PT HESC) at its meeting in Valencia (June 2004)
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ECC/REC/(04)07: “Designation of ‘116’ Number Range for Possible
Future Europe-Wide Harmonised Short Numbers”
ECC Report 70: “Services Based on HESC” (2005) – number length of
the HESC should be 4 digits
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European Commission and ”116”
 Commission Decision on “reserving the national numbering range
beginning with ‘116’ for harmonised numbers for harmonised
services of social value” on 15 February 2007 (2007/116/EC)
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A national number ”116 000” was reserved for ”Hotlines for missing
children”
 Commission Decision of 29 October 2007 added numbers:
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“116 111” for “Child helplines”
“116 123” for “Emotional support helplines”
 Commission Decision of 30 November 2009 added numbers:
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“116 006” for “Helpline for victims of crime”
“116 117” for “Non-emergency medical on-call service”
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Harmonisation Activities 2007 – 2012
 ECC/DEC/(07)03: “Reserving the National Numbering Range
Beginning with ‘116’ for Harmonised Numbers for Harmonised
Services of Social Value”
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Extension of EC Decision to whole CEPT
Amended in 2008 and 2010 to address the additional 116-number
ranges
 ECC/REC/(08)03: “Services Using Harmonized European Short
Codes in the National Numbering Range Beginning with ‘116’“
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Sponsorship could be used to fund the cost of the calls
Preferably the calls should be free to the caller
Tariff announcements, if calls were not free to the caller
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Harmonisation Activities 2007 – 2012
 ECC/DEC/(09)06: “Reserving the National Short Message Service
(SMS) Numbering Range Beginning with ‘116’ for Harmonised SMS
Numbers for Harmonised Services of Social Value”
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Amended in 2010 to address the additional 116-number ranges
 The European Traffic and Traveller Information Number (ETTIN)
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A service project interested in getting similar number as 116 HESC
Not to be based on the freephone concept
Exercise to analyse national numbering ranges beginning with “10X”
and “11X”  further analyse of ranges “111”, “115” and “117”
No short number in the “11X” range is free in all CEPT countries
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Harmonisation Activities 2007 – 2012
 Discontinuation of PT HESC (WG NaN, Luxembourg, November
2010)
 Trials to further harmonise national numbering ranges beginning
with ”11X”
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Draft ECC Decision on ”111” – failed!
Draft ECC Recommendation on usage and reservation on ”11X” – failed!
 Harmonisation efforts considering the national number range
beginning with ”1” will be stopped (WG NaN, Dubrovnik, May 2012)
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Harmonisation Time-line
Decision to stop harmonisation within ”1” range
2012
Harmonisation trials on ”111” and ”11X” failed
Harmonisation trials on ”111” and ”11X”
ECC DEC on 116 SMS
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2007
2006
Council Decision
on 00
Council Decision
on 112
ECC DEC on 116  Expansion to CEPT
PT HESC created
ECC REC on 116
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2003
1997
ECC Report: ”Services Based on HESC”
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1998
EC: Introduction of ”Card Stop Europe project”
ETO: ”Harmonisation of Short Codes in Europe”
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1972
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2009
ECC REC Services using HESC
Exercise of ”10X” and ”11X” for ETTIN
1991
2011
ECTRA REC on 118
CEPT Long Term Standardisation of National Numbering Plans
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