Pristina, 5 January 2016
Minister for Dialogue, Edita Tahiri, said that Austria applied yesterday to the ITU for Kosovo telephone code, in accordance with the Brussels agreement on telecommunications. The official confirmation on the application of Austria for Kosovo telephone code we have received from the European Union and the Austrian Embassy in Kosovo, said the Minister thanking the Austrian state for its very important commitment in order Kosovo to have its international telephone code.
Minister for Dialogue Edita Tahiri stressed that Kosovo telephone code will be 383 and receiving international code by the International Organisation of Telecommunications (ITU) enables Kosovo an international recognition and sovereignty in the field of telecommunications, which means that Kosovo consolidates its identity state in the field of telecommunications. As it is known, Kosovo since the end of the war in 1999 has continued to make attempts in order to have its own telephone code, and finally after sixteen years and thanks to Brussels Dialogue, the commitment of the European Union, the USA and Austria, our state will have its own international telephone code, she said.
Kosovo international telephone code has multiple significance for our country in the political, economic and security and will enable better services and more favourable cost to citizens.
According to the Implementation Plan, ITU will allocate the Kosovo telephone code during the first half of March 2016.
383 new unique code of Kosovo will be used throughout the country and by all fixed and mobile telephony operators.
With the implementation of the new unique code will be eliminated obstacles created due to lack of the code, respectively the use of three different codes (currently +377, +386, and +381), which have made it impossible the implementation of several mechanisms important for the protection of competition, traffic routing for both outgoing and incoming and the most appropriate management of limited numerical resources.
Also, the economic benefits are great since first of all operators will not be forced to pay high financial costs, which directly attributed to lack of code, which reflected in the provision of quality services and more free against the consumer. Overall costs incurred so far by lack of telephone code has reached the number to over 200 million euros.
Last modified: 5 Janar, 2016