Regional Workshop on Telecom Numbering Planning and Policies for Arab and Africa Region
Tunis, Tunisia, 25 April 2018
Contact: tsbevents@itu.int
25 April 2018
Introduction:The rapid change in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) during the past decade has increased the necessity for updating the national numbering plan (based on ITU-T Recommendation E.164). The workshop is aiming to give attendees a better understanding of numbering planning, numbreing policies and the impact and implication of National Numbering Plan implementation, including administrative and regulatory issues.
Objective:The workshop will provide participants an opportunity to discuss a model plan and framework for the planning and management of national telephone numbers. A model numbering plan and a framework will be presentd for discussion. The topics of the workshop will be drawn from the agenda below. Early in the workshop participants will be asked which topics interest them most. The topics presented will match those interests, as far as possible There might also be side meetings ontopics of special interest to small groups.
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08:30 - 09:00 | Registration and Official Opening
Moderator: Mustafa Almahdi, ITU |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Session1: Global Telecommunications Trends in Numbering
This session will cover topics that include numbering organizations, number structure, numbering plan construction and numbering plan design principles.
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| 10:00 - 10:15 | Coffee Break |
| 10:15 - 11:30 | Session 2: Numbering planning
This session will cover topics that include stakeholder expectations, the numbering plan, number lengths and codes, the numbering regulation
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| 11:30 - 12:30 | Session 3: Numbering in relation to Services
This session will cover topics that include fixed numbers, mobile numbers, short codes, new service numbers, VoIP numbers, IoT numbers. |
| 12:30 - 14:00 |
Lunch Break |
| 14:00 - 15:30 |
Session 4: Numbering inventory management, user protection and user support
This session will cover topics that include roles of operators and regulators, reserving and allocating numbers, auditing numbering records, secondary number allocation, charging for numbers, trading in numbers, changing numbers, recycling numbers, rights of callers and number holders, prevention of misuse of numbers, local dialling, short code matching, carrier selection and number portability. |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Session 5: Numbering variants
This session will cover topics that include ENUM and other kinds of numbering. |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Session 6: Country Presentations: Presentations by countries on National Numbering Plan (NNP)
Moderator: ITU |
| 17:00 - 17:20 |
Closing Session |
*To be confirmed
