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INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION
ITU-T RECOMMENDATION SUMMARY
Rec. No. : F.11
Title : Continued availability of traditional services
Study Group : I - Services
Version : New
Date of adoption : 1991
Notes :
At the World Administrative Telegraph and Telephone Conference
(Melbourne, 1988) considerable attention was given to ensuring a wide
availability of telecommunication services with effective
interconnection and interoperability. This implied a continuing
availability of basic or traditional services in many international
relations, despite the evolution of new or more sophisticated
services. Article 4 of the International Telecommunication Regulation
(Melbourne, 1988) expects Administrations to provide "a wide range of
international telecommunication services" including "at least a form
of telecommunication which is reasonably accessible to the public,
including those who may not be subscribers to a specific
telecommunication service".
Resolution No. 6 of the same World Administrative Telegraph and
Telephone Conference (Melbourne, 1988) called for provisions to be
made "to allow, through available communication infrastructures,
continued availability of traditional services so as to enable
effective communications on a world-wide basis". In particular this
concerned services in "certain rural areas and developing countries"
that "may need to rely on existing widely available services for a
relatively long period of time".
Pursuant to the International Telecommunication Regulations
(Melbourne, 1988), Recommendation F.11 lays down general principles on
the continued availability of traditional services to facilitate
global interconnection and interoperability of telecommunication
facilities, pending the establishment of new services and to ensure
the efficiency, usefulness and availability to the public of
international telecommunication services.
It addresses the coordination needed between Administrations to
achieve that continued availability. Members should take any necessary
steps to ensure that coordination.
Within the framework of Recommendation F.11, "traditional" services
include the international public telegram, telex and telephone
services.
To order the complete text of this Recommendation, please use the
Order Form for ITU-T Recommendations. An electronic version of this
form is available on ITUDOC (Winword: UPI=ITU-5265; ASCII: UPI=ITU-2488).