{"id":19981,"date":"2018-06-22T15:15:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T15:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=19981"},"modified":"2018-06-22T15:16:07","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T15:16:07","slug":"itu-chief-declares-z6-prefix-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2018\/06\/22\/itu-chief-declares-z6-prefix-illegal\/","title":{"rendered":"ITU chief declares Z6 prefix illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Secretary-General of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>International Telecommunication Union<\/strong><\/a> has said that authorising Kosovo Z6 call signs is \u201cunauthorised and illegal\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Houlin Zhao said;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;ITU has not allocated call sign series Z6 to any of its member states.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Consequently, the utilisation of call sign series Z6 by any entity without a formal allocation and consent of the ITU represents an unauthorised and illegal usage of this international numbering resource.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kosovo is not an ITU member state and is thus not eligible to receive a call sign block allocation from the ITU.<\/p>\n<p>More information is in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/dms_pub\/itu-t\/opb\/sp\/T-SP-OB.1149-2018-OAS-PDF-E.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>ITU Operational Bulletin No. 1149<\/strong><\/a> (11-page\/493KB PDF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union has said that authorising Kosovo Z6 call signs is \u201cunauthorised and illegal\u201d. Houlin Zhao said; &#8220;ITU has not allocated call sign series Z6 to any of its member states. &#8220;Consequently, the utilisation of call sign series Z6 by any entity without a formal allocation and consent of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}