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Agenda (7): International Access to 0844/0871 (BT/All) Action Sep07_04 : All international carriers to confirm their plans for making international access available for 0844 and 0871.
Action Dec07_02: JH to write to all international carriers regarding their plans to open international access to 0871 and 0844.
The letter will be sent shortly and recipients are invited to respond by the next Focus Group meeting.
Action Jan08_02: All recipients to respond to the letter from the Chair re international access to 0844/0871.
SH confirmed that BT has asked overseas operators to open UK 03 ranges ad added that the service would be available once BT had finalised POLO rates for international incoming calls and subject to operators submitting DMA requests. SH stated that proposed rates should be available at the end of the month, and an international access option added to the DMA request form.
CS asked why the payment arrangements should be different from national incoming. He stated that there was no ground for the rates to be different from national incoming as per an Oftel decision in relation to 0870/0845.
LP asked whether BT to present the rationale for the approach at the next meeting should they decide to apply differentiated rates.
Action Jan08_03: BT to present at the next Focus Group meeting the rationale for POLO rates for international incoming 0844/0871 should these differ from national rates.
Agenda (8): Review of remaining action points Action Aug06_09: Porting differential issue to be added to the agenda of the first NTSFG meeting of 2007.
ó Ongoing, pending resolution of NCCN500 dispute. LP suggested changing the year to 2009
Action Sep07_01: ICSTIS to provide more detail on the levy calculation.
CH said this should have been discharged after the least meeting. CR pointed that there was not enough information available and asked Ofcom to cover this in the 0871 consultation. Ongoing
Action Sep07_02: ICSTIS to inform Focus group when consultation responses are available on the ICSTIS website
CH stated the responses were on the website. Some operators said they had difficulty finding them [link was provided shortly after the meeting:
http://www.phonepayplus.org.uk/service_providers/responsestoconsultations/0871ne... ]
Discharged.
Action Dec07_01: Ofcom to confirm all minutes up to the October 2007 meeting have been uploaded on the Ofcom website.
Discharged.
A.O.B. LP asked BT when the new POLO rates for the year 2008-09 would be issued. SH replied that these should be out by end of January / beginning of February. LP asked whether BT would present the content of the changes at the next Focus Group meeting. SH said that BT would consider it if changes were made to elements in the formula other than the conveyance components.
Date of Next Meeting: The meeting next meeting will take place on 21st February 2008, commencing at 2:00pm, at Riverside House, London.
Summary of New and Outstanding Actions:
Aug06_09
Porting differential issue to be added to the agenda of the first NTSFG meeting of 2007
Sep07_01
ICSTIS to provide more detail on the levy calculation
Sep07_02:
ICSTIS to inform Focus group when consultation responses are available on the ICSTIS website
Sep07_04:
All international carriers to confirm their plans for making international access available for 0844 and 0871.
Dec07_01:
Ofcom to confirm all minutes have been uploaded on the Ofcom website.
Dec07_02:
JH to write to all international carriers regarding their plans to open international access to 0871 and 0844.
Jan08_01
All to review amended minutes of the December 07 meeting and contact the Chair in case of disagreement by 17/01.
Jan08_02
All recipients to respond to the letter from the Chair re international access to 0844/0871
Jan08_03
BT to present at the next Focus Group meeting the rationale for POLO rates for international incoming 0844/0871 should these differ from national rates
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