ITU Operational Bulletin		
No. 601 – 1.VIII.1995			
(Information received by 25 July 1995)			
	
Published by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
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Dates of publication of the next Operational Bulletins
No. 602	15.VIII.1995
No. 603	1.IX.1995
No. 604	15.IX.1995		Including information received by:
8.VIII.1995
25.VIII.1995
8.IX.1995	

601-E /
Contents

General Information
(BR)	List of Radiodetermination and Special Service Stations, 12th Edition (List VI) and Supplement No. 1:  Note from the BR – International Earth Rotation Service
(TSB)	Legal time changes
(TSB)	Telegram Service, Gentex Service:  Czech Rep. (SPT Telecom, Prague) (Closure of international gentex offices )
(TSB)	Facsimile Service:  Switzerland (Direction Générale des PTT suisses) (POSTFAX traffic from Switzerland – POSTFAX traffic to Switzerland)
(TSB)	Telephone Service:  Hungary (Hungarian Telecommunication Company, Ltd. – HTC, Budapest), Russia (Ministry of Posts and Telecommunication), Trinidad and Tobago (Telecommunication Services of Trinidad and Tobago Limited – TSTT, Port-of-Spain)
(TSB)	Service Restrictions

Amendments to Service Documents
(BR)	List of Coast Stations (List IV)
(TSB)	Recapitulatory List of issuer identifier numbers for the international telecommunication charge card
(TSB)	TA Table – Transferred Account Telegraph and Telematic Service
(TSB)	Bureaufax Table

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Subjects preceded by the letters (BR) are dealt with by the Radiocommunication Bureau (BR),
	contact:	TF +41 22 730 5217	FAX +41 22 730 5785
Subjects preceded by the letters (TSB) are dealt with by the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB),
	contact:	TF +41 22 730 5212	FAX +41 22 730 5853

GENERAL  INFORMATION
ITU OB    601-E /

List of Radiodetermination
and Special Service Stations,

12th Edition (List VI)
and Supplement No. 1

Note from the BR:
	The attention of the users of Section 7 of this List is drawn to the following communication of the International Earth Rotation Service:
	A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of December 1995. The sequence of dates of the UTC second markers will be:
31 December 1995, 23 h 59 m 59 s
31 December 1995, 23 h 59 m 60 s
01 January 1996, 0 h 0 m 0 s.

Legal time changes

Date and hour of change	Country or area	+  =  Advanced
by  - -  minutes
–  =  Retarded
by  - -  minutes	
Legal time will be	
24.IX.1995 0100 UTC	Allemagne /Germany /Alemania	– 60 	UTC +1	
»	Andorre / Andorra	– 60 	UTC +1	
»	Autriche / Austria	– 60 	UTC +1	
»	Belgique / Belgium / Bélgica	– 60 	UTC +1	
»	Croatie / Croatia / Croacia	– 60 	UTC +1	
»	Espagne / Spain / España	– 60 	UTC +1	
»	– Canaries / Canarias	– 60 	UTC	
»	Finlande / Finland / Finlandia	– 60 	UTC +2	
»	France / Francia 	– 60 	UTC +1	
»	Gibraltar	– 60 	UTC +1	
»	Grèce / Greece / Grecia	– 60 	UTC +2	
»	Hongrie / Hungary / Hungría	– 60 	UTC +1	
»	Italie / Italy / Italia	– 60 	UTC +1	
»	Liechtenstein	– 60 	UTC +1	
»	Luxembourg / Luxemburgo	– 60 	UTC +1	
»	Monaco / Mónaco	– 60 	UTC +1	
»	Norvège / Norway / Noruega	– 60 	UTC +1	
»	Pays-Bas / Netherlands /
PPaíses Bajos	– 60 	UTC +1	
»	Pologne / Poland / Polonia	– 60 	UTC +1	
»	Portugal	– 60 	UTC +1	
»	– Madère / Madeira / Madera	– 60 	UTC	
»	– Açores / Azores	– 60 	UTC–1	
»	Saint-Marin / San Marino	– 60 	UTC +1	
»	Slovaquie / Slovakia /Eslovaquia	– 60 	UTC +1	
»	Slovénie / Slovenia / Eslovenia	– 60 	UTC +1	
»	Suède / Sweden / Suecia	– 60 	UTC +1	
»	Suisse / Switzerland / Suiza	– 60 	UTC +1	

Date and hour of change	Country or area	+   =  Advanced
by  - -  minutes
–  =  Retarded
by  - -  minutes	
Legal time will be	
24.IX.1995 0100 UTC	Rép. tchèque / Czech Rep. /
0Rep. Checa	– 60 	UTC +1	
»	Vatican / Vaticano	– 60 	UTC +1	
»	Yougoslavie / Yugoslavia	– 60 	UTC +1	
				
24.IX.1995 0200 UTC	Danemark / Denmark / Dinamarca	– 60 	UTC +1	
»	– Féroé (Iles) / Faroe Islands /
– Feroé (Islas)	– 60 	UTC 	
»	– Groenland / Greenland /
– Groenlandia	– 60 	UTC –3	
				
30.IX.1995 2200 UTC	Liban / Lebanon / Líbano	– 60	UTC +2	
				
30.IX.1995	Syrie / Syria / Siria	– 60 	UTC +2	
				
1.X.1995	Jordanie / Jordan / Jordania	+ 60 	UTC +2	
				
1.X.1995 1500 UTC – 17.III.1996 1400 UTC	Nouvelle-Zélande / New Zealand /
NNueva Zelandia	+ 60 	UTC +13	
				
30.X.1995 2100 UTC 	Eypte / Egypt / Egipto	– 60 	UTC +2	

Telegram Service

Gentex Service
Czech Rep.
Communication of 19.VII.1995:
Closure of international gentex offices in the Czech Republic
	SPT Telecom, Prague, announces that as of 1 July 1995, the international gentex service offices in the following telegraph offices have been closed:
	Liberec 	(call number:  127021;  answer-back code:  127021 LIB  CS)
	Olomouc 	(call number:  061736;  answer-back code:  061736 OLC  CS)
	Ostrava 	(call number:  061737;  answer-back code:  061737 OST  CS)
	Usti nad Labem 	(call number:  127022;  answer-back code:  127022 ULB  CS)
	The operations of the offices closed in Liberec and Usti nad Labem will be fully taken over by the  Prague telegraph office, whose characteristics are: 
	PRAHA	(call number:  1104;  answer-back code:  1104 PHA  CS)
	The operations of the offices closed in Olomouc and Ostrava will be fully taken over by the Brno telegraph office, whose characteristics are:
	BRNO	(call number:  61724;  answer-back code:  61724 BRN  CS)
	The information on the gentex service of the Czech Republic can be obtained at the following address:
	SPT Telecom
	International Department
	Olšanská 5
	125 03 PRAHA 3
	Czech Republic
	Tf:	+42 2 6714 3989
	Fax:	+42 2 628 0439

Facsimile Service
Switzerland
Communication of 6.VII.1995:
POSTFAX traffic from Switzerland
	The Direction générale des PTT suisses announces that the Swiss PUBLIFAX service addressed to BUREAUFAX bureaux abroad with delivery to the addressee has been discontinued as of 1 July 1995. The new Swiss POSTFAX service to destinations abroad is henceforth accepted only when addressed directly to the facsimile number of the addressee.

POSTFAX traffic to Switzerland
	The POSTFAX service to Switzerland is henceforth accepted only when addressed directly to the facsimile number of the addressee.
Note:  This communication also applies to the Principality of Liechtenstein.

Telephone Service
Hungary
Communication of 14.VII.1995:
	Hungarian Telecommunication Company. Ltd. – HTC, Budapest, announces that with effect from 1 August 1995, collect calls to the following mobile telephone area codes in Hungary will no longer be admitted:

Area codes	Numbers	
20	XX XX XX	
30	XX XX XX	
60	XX XX XX	
Russia
Communication of 11.VII.1995:
	The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the Russian Federation announces that the information on the network “Sprint Svyaz” is the following:

Network operator: 	Joint stock company “Sprint Svyaz”
Network type: 	Overlay network without right of access to the public telephone
		network, for the provision of local, trunk and international
		telephone communication services.
Network access code: 	7 517
Regions in which communication
operations are authorized:	Moscow and St. Petersburg;
		Regions of Irkutsk, Leningrad, Moscow, Nizhegorod,
		Novosibirsk, Rostok, Samara, Sverdlovsk, Smolensk, Tyumen;
		Territories of Chelyabinsk, Krasnodar, Khabarovsk, Primorsk;
		Republics of Bashkortostan, Tatarstan, North Ossetia.
Network capacity:	66 000 subscribers
Contact:
	Tatyana V. Prokhorova
7 Tverskaya Street, pod 7
103375 MOSCOW
Russia
Tf:	+7 095 201 6890
Fax:	+7 095 929 9449

Trinidad and Tobago
Communication of 18.VII.1995:
	Telecommunication Services of Trinidad and Tobago Limited – TSTT, Port-of-Spain, announces that the central office code (NXX) 619 will be brought into service within the Trinidad and Tobago telephone network on 24 July 1995. This code will be used initially for Voicemail and Internet services. Administrations are requested to implement the necessary changes in their switches.

Service Restrictions
Note from the ITU:
	For the list of service restrictions still in force, see the Recapitulatory Table published as an annex to Operational Bulletin (OB) No. 490 of 14.III.1991 and the following subsequent communications:

	OB No.
	515	United Kingdom
520	Libya
524	Syria
527	Zambia
532	Peru
534	United Arab Emirates
538, 565, 574	Finland
545	Venezuela
548, 570	Egypt
555	Jamaica
566	Israel

AMENDMENTS  TO  SERVICE  DOCUMENTS
Abbreviations used
		ADD	insert	PAR	paragraph
COL	column	REP	replace
LIR	read	SUP	delete
P	page(s)

List of Coast Stations
(List IV)
14th Edition
and Supplements Nos. 1, 2 and 3
(Amendment No. 28)

CUB	Cuba
P  719-720	Notes A, B and H,	LIR
A	Accounting authority: Departamento CU01, Empresa de Telecomunicaciones Internacionales de Cuba, Ministerio de Comunicaciones, Habana (Cuba).
B	Radiotelegrams (per word)
	1.	Land station charge: 0.73 fr.
	2.	Landline charge*
		a)	Cuba: 0.203 fr.
		b)	America and Europe: 9.896 fr.
		c)	Other countries: 13.194 fr.
____________
*	The landline charge is composed per groups of 60 words, with a minimum of 10 words.

H	Radiotelephone calls (minimum 3 min.)
	1.	Land station charge
		MF:	3.08  fr./min.
		HF:	6.04  fr./min.
		VHF:	2.143 fr./min.
	2.	Landline charge
		a)	Cuba: the landline charge is included in the land station charge.
		b)	North America: 4.821 fr./min.
		c)	Central America, the Caribbean Islands and Mexico: 
			6.597 fr./min.
		d)	South America: 8.627 fr./min.
		e)	Other countries: 11.418 fr./min.

DNK	Denmark – as from 1 September 1995
P  726 	Note H1,	LIR

H1	Radiotelephone calls (minimum 1 min.)
	1.	Land station charge
		MF:	1.50 SDR/min.
		HF:	3.44 SDR/min.
		VHF:	1.50 SDR/min.
		VHF/DSC:	0.35 SDR/min.
	2.	Landline charge
		a)	Denmark: the landline charge is included in the land station charge.
		b)	Faroe Islands
			i)	Monday–Saturday (0800-1930 h, local time): 0.31 SDR/min.
			ii)	Other periods: 0.15 SDR/min.

Local time
0800-1930	1930-0800
SDR/min.
		c)	Finland, Norway and Sweden:	0.27	0.21
		d)	Germany and United Kingdom:	0.31	0.25
		e)	Poland:	0.31	0.31
		f)	Andorra, Belgium, France, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg,
			Monaco, Netherlands and Switzerland:	0.35	0.28
		g)	Hungary, Czech Rep. and Slovakia:	0.35	0.35
		h)	Austria, Ireland, Italy, San Marino and Vatican:	0.40	0.32
		i)	Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, The Former Yougoslav
			Rep. of Macedonia, Romania and Yugoslavia:	0.40	0.40
		j)	Spain, Greece and Portugal (including Azores and Madeira):	0.44	0.35
		k)	Bulgaria, Estonia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovenia:	0.44	0.44
		l)	Albania, Cyprus and Turkey:	0.53	0.53
		m)	Canada and United States (except Alaska):	0.62*	0.50**
		n)	Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Malta,
			Morocco, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine:	0.71	0.71
		o)	Alaska, Australia, Gibraltar, Japan, Libya, Singapore
			and Tunisia:	0.88	0.88
		p)	Greenland:	0.97	0.97
		q)	Bophuthastwana, Ciskey, Guam, Hongkong, Irak, Iran
			(Islamic Rep. of), Israel, Jordan, Malaysia, New Zealand,
			 Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, South Africa, Tajikistan, Transkei,
			Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Venda:	1.42	1.42
		r)	Other countries:	1.88	1.88
	3.	Surcharges
		a)	Personal calls: 3.54 SDR per call.
		b)	Collect calls (admitted in the ship-to-shore direction only): 3.54 SDR per call.
____________
*	0800-2000 h, local time.
**	2200-0800 h, local time.

HOL	Netherlands
P  747	Note B,	REP	3.83	by	4.26
	Note C,	REP	4.22	by	4.26
			0.38	by	0.43
			0.41	by	0.40
P  748	Note L,	LIR
L	Satellite telex letters (STL) via the Netherlands Inmarsat-A Burum coast earth station
	1.	Satellite charge depending used satellite system.
	2.	Surcharges
		a)	To any destination: 2.04 SDR per STL.
		b)	STL on luxury card: 3.06 SDR per STL.
	Note M,	REP	2.04	by	1.98

ISL	Iceland – as from 1 October 1995
P  757-758	Notes A and H,	LIR
A	Accounting authority: Post and Telecom Iceland, IS-150 Reykjavík (Iceland).
H	Radiotelephone calls (minimum 3 min.)
	1.	Land station charge
		MF:	1.50 SDR/min.
		HF:	2.40 SDR/min.
		VHF:	1.30 SDR/min.

	2.	Landline charge
		a)	Iceland: the landline charge is included in the land station charge.
		b)	Other countries: the landline charge is the same as the charge for international calls.
	3.	Surcharges
		Personal calls: surcharge equivalent to one minute.

MAU	Mauritius
P  767	ADD note H
H	Radiotelephone calls (minimum 3 min.)
	Land station charge + landline charge
	a)	Mauritius: 2.55 fr./min.
	b)	Other countries: 2.30 fr./min., plus current charge per minute for international calls.

NOR	Norway
P  781	Note A,	LIR
A	Accounting authority: Telenor International, P.O. Box 6701, St. Olavsplass, N-0130 Oslo 1 (Norway).
	Note B,	REP	0.35	by	0.40
			7.––	by	8.–– (twice)
			0.20	by	0.25

SNG	Singapore
P  801	Note B,	REP	0.196	by	0.237
			0.392	by	0.474
			0.065	by	0.129
	Notes C and D,	LIR
C	Radiomaritime letters = SLT = (including onward postal charges): 0.241 SDR per word. Minimum 30 words. Admitted to Singapore only.
D	The land station charge for meteorological radiotelegrams (OBS) is payable by recipient.
P  802	Note H,	LIR
H	Radiotelephone calls (minimum 3 min.)
	1.	Land station charge
		a)	Ship-to-shore
			MF:	0.991 SDR/min.
			HF:	0.991 SDR/min.
			VHF:	0.588 SDR/min.
		b)	Ship-to-ship
			MF:	1.982 SDR/min.
			HF:	1.982 SDR/min.
			VHF:	1.176 SDR/min.
	2.	Landline charge
		a)	Singapore: the landline charge is included in the land station charge.
		b)	Other destinations: information provided on request.
	3.	Cancellation charge for MF/HF/VHF services.
		a)	Ship-to-shore: 0.862 SDR per call.
		b)	Ship-to-ship: 0.862 SDR per call.
	ADD Note O
O	Radiotelexograms* (per word) (minimum 7 words)
	a)	Ship-to-local shore: 0.345 SDR.
	b)	Ship-to-foreign shore: 0.647 SDR.
	c)	Shore-to-ship (ASEAN countries and Viet Nam): 0.345 SDR.
	d)	Shore-to-ship (others): 0.431 SDR.
____________
*	Effective December 1995, a cancellation fee of 0.862 SDR per message will be levied for foreign shore-to-ship radiotelexogram that is cancelled upon request or expired, after a retention period of 96 hours.

SUI	Switzerland
P  805	Notes A and B,	LIR
A	Accounting authority: Swiss Telecom PTT, International Accounts, Riedernstrasse 146, CH-3027 Berne (Switzerland).
B	Radiotelegrams (per word)
	1.	Land station charge: 0.35 SDR.
	2.	Landline charge
		a)	Switzerland: 0.23 SDR.
		b)	Europe: 0.30 SDR.
		SUP note C
	Note G,	LIR
G	Radiotelex calls
	Automatic operation (minimum 1 min.)
	1.	Land station charge: 2.10 SDR/min.
	2.	Landline charge
		Switzerland: 0.114 SDR/min
P  806	Note H,	LIR
H	Radiotelephone calls (minimum 3 min.)
	1.	Land station charge
		MF:
		HF:	2.50 SDR/min.
		VHF:
	2.	Landline charge
		Switzerland: 0.16 SDR/min.

THA	Thailand
P  808	Notes A and H,	LIR
A	Accounting authority: The Communications Authority of Thailand, 99 Chaeng Wattana Road, Donmuang, Bangkok 10002 (Thailand).
H	Radiotelephone calls (minimum 3 min.)
	1.	Land station charge
		a)	Thai ships to sail in Thai waters
			MF:	1.01 fr./min.
			HF:	1.01 fr./min.
			VHF:	1.01 fr./min.
		b)	Thai ships to sail in international waters
			MF:	1.21 fr./min.
			HF:	2.01 fr./min.
			VHF:	1.01 fr./min.
		c)	Foreign ships
			MF:	1.70 fr./min.
			HF:	2.60 fr./min.
			VHF:	1.30 fr./min.
	2.	Landline charge
		Telephone area in which the coast station is situated: 0.–fr./min.
	3.	Booking fee: charge equivalent to 30% of one minute.

USA	United States
P  817	Note B4,	LIR
B4	Total land station and landline charges for radiotelegrams transmitted via the following coast stations:

	Francs-or / Gold Francs / Francos oro					
	A destination de / Intended for / Con destino a:					

Stations côtières

Coast Stations

Estaciones costeras	Etats-Unis
(Partie continentale,
excepté Alaska)
Continental
United States
(except Alaska)
Estados Unidos
(Parte continental,
excepto Alaska)	
Alaska

Alaska

Alaska	
Canada

Canada

Canadá	
Mexique

Mexico

México	
Ile de Miquelon

Miquelon Island

Isla Miquelón	
Galveston, Texas Radio (KLC)		1,15	1,37	1,45	1,95	1,575	
Mobile, Alabama Radio (WLO)		1,41	2,15	3,50	3,24	3,500	
Palo Alto, California
	Radio (KFS)		
1,29	
1,51	
1,59	
2,09	
1,705	
Rogers City, Michigan
	Radio (WLC)		
0,90	
1,12	
1,20	
1,70	
1,315	
Seattle, Washington
	Radio/KLB		
1,29	
1,51	
1,59	
2,10	
1,705	
Slidell, Louisiana Radio/WNU		1,58	2,23	4,69	4,43	2,090	
South Chatham, Massachusetts
	Radio (WCC)		
1,41	
2,15	
3,50	
3,25	
3,500	
S. Francisco, California 	Radio/KPH		
1,56	
2,15	
3,50	
3,25	
3,500	
Tuckerton, New Jersey
	Radio (WSC)		
1,41	
2,15	
3,50	
3,24	
3,500	

Recapitulatory List of issuer identifier numbers for
the international telecommunication charge card
(ITU-T Recommendation E.118)
(Position on 30 September 1994)
(Annex to ITU Operational Bulletin No. 582 – 15.X.1994)
(Amendment No. 18)

P  12	ADD

Country	
Company Name/Address	Issuer Identifier Number	
Contact	Effective date of usage	
Netherlands	Libertel B.V.
P.O. Box 1597
6201BN MAASTRICHT
(Netherlands)	89 31 44	D. Targett
P.O. Box 1597
6201BN MAASTRICHT
(Netherlands)
Tel	+31 20 5918100
Fax	+31 20 5918110	1.VII.1995	

P  13	ADD

Puerto Rico	Telefónica Larga Distancia, Inc. (TLDI)
G.P.O. Box 70325
SAN JUAN
(Puerto Rico 00936-8325)	89 1 853	María D. Pizarro-Figueroa, Esq.
G.P.O. Box 70325
SAN JUAN
(Puerto Rico 00936-8325)
Tel	+1 809 2735630
Fax	+1 809 7495880	15.V.1995	

TA Table – Transferred Account Telegraph and Telematic Service
(7th Edition – July 1988)
ITU-T Recommendation F.41 renumbered F.13
(Amendment No. 164)

Note from the TSB:
	At its most recent meeting in Geneva (16-26 May 1995), ITU-T Study Group 1 approved a number of measures, including the proposal to delete ITU-T (ex-CCITT) Recommendation F.41 renumbered F.13. The final decision should be taken at the next meeting of SG 1 in February/March 1996. We would draw the attention of Administrations/ROAs participating in the TA Service to the communication published in this connection on page 3 Operational Bulletin No. 600 of 15.VII.1995, entitled:
Circular TSB 112 of 10 November 1994 – Results of the Survey on the
Proposal to discontinue 
the International Transferred Account Telegraph and Telematic Service
(TA Service – ITU-T Recommendation F.41 renumbered F.13)

CANCELLATION  OF  CREDIT  CARDS

P  223 (VII.91)      ADD

1	2	3	4	5	
DZ/48/DZ	02/1996	Algeria			

INTERNATIONAL  TELECOMMUNICATION  UNION
UNIVERSAL  POSTAL  UNION

BUREAUFAX  TABLE
International public facsimile service between public bureaux
(4th edition – December 1994)	

Abbreviations used

		ADD	insert	PAR	paragraph
COL	column	REP	replace
LIR	read	SUP	delete
P	page(s)

(Amendment No. 10)
1.VIII.1995

P  199 - 201	SWITZERLAND  AND  LIECHTENSTEIN1)

REP  all entries by:

SWITZERLAND  AND  LIECHTENSTEIN1)

1)	The Direction générale des PTT suisses announces that the information concerning Switzerland and Liechtenstein on pages 199 to 201 of the Bureaufax Table (4th edition) should be deleted. However, it should be noted that only messages addressed directly to the facsimile terminal of the addressee are admitted.