ITU-T E.128 PDF

General

The ever increasing number of people travelling to foreign countries generally need to use the telephone either to communicate with their own country or with people in the country they are visiting.

These people make many of their calls from payphones and public telephone offices, where normally they can find appropriate instructions for the use of the telephone service; others who make their calls from hotels or private telephones may encounter difficulties for lack of information.

To obtain more detailed information, foreign visitors may consult telephone directories containing General Information pages (see Recommendation E.126) and "Pages intended for foreign visitors", prepared in one or more languages to facilitate consultation (see Recommendation E.127).

In addition, a leaflet containing general information and instructions for the use of the telephone is printed and distributed to foreign visitors, either by the Administration of the country of origin on departure or by the Administration of the foreign country on arrival. Cooperation between Administrations is necessary to ensure that information contained in leaflets is accurate, and also to prevent possible duplication of leaflets.

Administrations should therefore ensure that the leaflets to be distributed to foreign visitors have the widest possible application and, in principle, are drafted in a uniform manner on the basis of the following guidelines. However, each Administration can prepare its own leaflet to be distributed either at home or in any other country, with the content it considers most appropriate from the national point of view.