Autor: Lech Borkowski (lbs_at_phys.ufl.edu)
Data: Sun 28 May 1995 - 07:00:50 MET DST
BBC Summary of World Broadcasts
May 27, 1995
International call-back telecommunications services banned
Source: 'Renmin Ribao', Beijing, overseas edition in Chinese 22 May 95 p 8
Text of report by Chinese Communist Party newspaper 'Renmin Ribao' (overseas
edition)
Announcement on Prohibiting Resale of International Telecommunications
Services in China
Number: Dian Si [Telecommunication Administration Department] (1995) 12
A special announcement is hereby issued that in accordance with relevant
regulations of the Chinese government, international telecommunication
services in China can be solely run only by the Ministry of Posts and
Telecommunications. No unit or individual, including resellers, is allowed to
engage in international telecommunications operations in China in any form. We
recently learned that some foreign companies are running advertisements in China
to promote international call-back services. This is in strong violation of
China's regulations governing the operation of international services.
This department solemnly declares that any resale of international
telecommunication services in China must be stopped and users for call-back
services must halt their application immediately. Otherwise, we will take
necessary measures against them.
[Signed] Telecommunications Administration
Department under the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications
The Warsaw Voice
March 26, 1995
LONG-DISTANCE CALLBACKS
Cut-Throat Calling Systems
by Lidia Sosnowska-Smogorzewska
Cheap international calls have national phone company TP SA grousing about
"illegal" competition.
[...]
Although most companies which offer services of this sort operate in the
United States, where it is legal, call-back services have recently begun to
appear in Poland. The offers usually come from U.S. companies and are
interesting for Polish enterprises, if only because Poland does not yet have
special night rates for international connections.
According to Telekomunikacja Polska (TP SA) this sort of activity is
illegal in Poland. Roman Gebka, head of the TP SA Telecommunications Services
Office, quotes the law on communication of November 1990, which maintained state
monopoly on all operator activity in international traffic.
To get around the law, companies which offer call-back services do not have
their representative offices in Poland, nor are they setting up their own
networks here or operating an exchange. Instead, they contact potential clients
through agents or brochures. "Your access to our call-back system is legal and
doesn't contravene the law on TP monopoly, as the law does not ban anyone from
calling from abroad to Polish users," said one advertising leaflet sent to The
Warsaw Voice.
However, Gebka warns Polish companies which use or are planning to use
call-back services, that this activity is indeed illegal in Poland and
companies can be prosecuted. TP SA can disconnect a company from the
telecommunications network and sue for the losses that TP SA incurred by the
connection with foreign users working outside of the TP network. But, Gebka also
admits that proving a company used a call-back system is very difficult.
TP SA estimates the amount of call-back traffic in Poland at 2 percent of
the entire international traffic. In Poland call-back services are probably
most popular with trade companies which have extensive contacts with Eastern
Asia. In the future TP SA wants to counteract the increase of call-back services
in Poland by introducing "elements" which will make these services
unprofitable. No one, however, was able to tell the Voice what these elements
might be.
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