Commercial Court Division
(ITU-Telecommunications Recommendation E.104)”. Paragraph 4.16 thereof provides
(Page 232 of the joint scheduling bundle).
“International Public Telecommunication number …
A string of decimal digits
that, for a geographic country code, uniquely identifies a subscriber or a point where
a service is provided. For the case of a global service code, it identifies the subscriber
of the service, for networks it identifies a subscriber of the network …
…The number which includes the country code and subsequent digits, but not the
international prefix, contains information necessary to route the call to this
termination point on a public network (it may also contain supplementary information
necessary to forward it on a private network). It is sometimes referred to as an E.164
number or international number …”
Exhibit D.2 (Page 195 of the joint scheduling bundle) entitle “list of ITUTelecommunications Recommendation E. 164 Assigned Country Codes (Position as at
15th April, 2009)” lists country code 256 to Uganda (Republic of) and country code
249 Sudan (Republic of).
There is no assignment of country code to GOSS. It is significant to note from this
document that a country code can be allocated to a country, geographical area or
Global service. There are even spare unallocated codes like 287, 288 and 289.
It is not in dispute between the parties that code +256 is the country code for
Uganda. However, based on the ITU numbering plan documentation, it is safe to find
that +256 477 xxx is a country code for Uganda with subsequent digits containing the
information necessary to route a call to this termination point on a public network or
forward it on a private network.
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