A draft report by the European Conference of Postal and...
A draft report by the European Conference of Postal and Telecom Administrations, known as CEPT, confirmed Monday that EU governments agreed preliminarily to reject a proposal by the European Telecommunications Network Operators’ Association to add a “sending-network-pays” provision to the…
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ITU’s International Telecom Regulations (ITRs) (CD Oct 22 p7). The agreed response was that CEPT “agrees that the concerns raised by the ETNO proposal are very relevant for the future of the sector and should be addressed,” but CEPT “is of the opinion however that these cannot be solved through modification of the ITRs.” Administrations do not support the inclusion of any provision on those issues in the ITRs, the draft says, but are committed to addressing them within the ITU and/or in other relevant fora. If that text isn’t approved by the CEPT Working Group ITU plenary, alternative wording will say that “[for the moment,] CEPT does not agree with the inclusion of any provision regarding [Internet Protocol] interconnection in the ITRs.” The organization met last week in Istanbul to arrive at a common EU position before December’s ITU World Conference on International Telecommunications in Dubai.