Nearly three dozen new reports of numbering misuse were submitted...

Nearly three dozen new reports of numbering misuse were submitted to the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau the week of Nov. 26 in the run-up to the World Conference on International Telecommunications, we've learned. Preparatory discussions had identified numbering misuse as an area the conference could address. The reports detail artificial inflation of traffic, fraud, misrouting of traffic and other problems associated with a variety of numbering ranges. The apparent misuse came from the U.K., Aruba, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Latvia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Maldives, Belarus, Somalia, Madagascar, Myanmar, Zimbabwe, Austria, Bulgaria, Cuba and others. The reports were submitted by Canada, Poland, the Czech Republic, Russia, India, Malta, Turkey, Andorra and Switzerland.