Annex to ITU Operational Bulletin.doc

Annex to ITU Operational Bulletin No. 971 – 1.I.2011 INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION TSB TELECOMMUNICATION STANDARDIZATION BUREAU OF ITU _____________________________________________________________________ LIST OF ISSUER IDENTIFIER NUMBERS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION CHARGE CARD (IN ACCORDANCE WITH ITU-T RECOMMENDATION E.118 (05/2006)) (POSITION ON 1 JANUARY 2011) ______________________________________________________________________ Geneva, 2011 List of Issuer Identifier Numbers for the international Telecommunication charge card (In accordance with ITU-T Recommendation E.118) Note from TSB This List replaces the List annexed to Operational Bulletin No. 919 of 1.XI.2008. It contains all the Issuer Identifier Numbers (IIN) registered by the ITU, which have been notified in the ITU Operational Bulletin up to and including No. 971 of 1.I.2011. For your information, this List will be updated by numbered series of amendments published in the ITU Operational Bulletin. Furthermore, the information contained in this Annex is also available on the ITU website /itu-t/bulletin/annex.html, . An IIN is used to identify a telecommunication company in a country, which is working in an international environment. According to ISO Standard 7812-2 , the criteria for approval and rejection of applications are: 4.3.1 Criteria for approval of an application for a single IIN Applications for a single IIN shall meet all the criteria for approval below and shall not comply with any of the criteria for rejection in 4.3.2 : a) the applicant applying for a single IIN shall not already have an IIN assigned to it in its own right (outside of any card scheme); b) the IIN shall be for immediate use, preferably within 12 months of the date of issue of the IIN; c) the card being issued shall be for use in an international interchange environment (see ISO/IEC 7812-1); d) the applicant shall be a single corporate entity operating under a specific legislative regulation. 4