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ITU member countries have cleared the way for an update to a reco...

ITU member countries have cleared the way for an update to a recommendation on the principles for charging, billing, international accounting and settlement for the international land mobile telephone service, according to a letter circulated by the director of…

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the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau. The update deals with an issue between Cable & Wireless and Digicel. Mobile subscriber roaming numbers assigned to handsets using combinations of mobile country and network codes extraterritorially must be from the numbering resources of the physical location of the customer, according to a Cable & Wireless filing. The recommendation covers application of charging and accounting principles for various call routing scenarios. The ITU-T study group on telecom economic and policy issues is to consider the updates for final approval during a meeting starting Jan. 19.