Eu Regulatory Issues

sec · 06-04-2006, 19:10

My impression is that the Personal European Number is a sort of attempt of exhuming something like the "Personal number" that we had in Italy (abbandoned by Telecom Italia at the end of 2003 - but, if I am not mistaken, still used by some operators like Tiscali to provide some services - in the case of Tiscali a freefax/email service)

The idea of the Personal Number was to have a single number that would forward any call to mobile/fix line (just like the P.E.N.). What made it a total failure was, I think, not only the cost (having to pay the call forwarding) but also the number which had been adopted: still today, it's difficult to find out how much you spend when calling a 178 number! But above everything else, the most stupid part of this project is that 178 cannot be called from abroad!!! :meh:

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sec (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Fan Posts: 106 Join Date: 21 Jun 2004 Country:	06-04-2006, 19:10 My impression is that the Personal European Number is a sort of attempt of exhuming something like the "Personal number" that we had in Italy (abbandoned by Telecom Italia at the end of 2003 - but, if I am not mistaken, still used by some operators like Tiscali to provide some services - in the case of Tiscali a freefax/email service) The idea of the Personal Number was to have a single number that would forward any call to mobile/fix line (just like the P.E.N.). What made it a total failure was, I think, not only the cost (having to pay the call forwarding) but also the number which had been adopted: still today, it's difficult to find out how much you spend when calling a 178 number! But above everything else, the most stupid part of this project is that 178 cannot be called from abroad!!! :meh: My Phones: Nokia 6230 - Nec N343i - Nokia 6230i My Sims: Wind IT prepaid (+ Voda IT postpaid corporate phone) Prepaid Sims: WORLWIDE: Riiing, UM+ - IT: Voda, Wind Deceased Sims: WORLWIDE: Hop - NZ: Vodafone - FR: Bouygues - IT: H3G - US: T-Mobile