Kosovo to receive international prefix number +383

Kosovo will be in mid-December, after six years of negotiations with Serbia, get its own international telephone code that will read +383, announced Kosovo sources.

"Kosovo will have its own international telephone code +383," said the head of Kosovo's negotiating team with Serbia Edita Tahiri.Dodala that the international Telecommunication Union officially launch the code of mid-December.In the Kosovo system of fixed telephony is currently using the same international telephone code as in Serbia, or +381.

To establish a mobile connection with Kosovo, according to the present solution, customers outside its territory must first dial the phone at Monaco or Slovenia. According to Pristina resources, lack of your own area code Kosovo's year stood 200 million euros."Kosovo will have its own telephone code as well as all countries, as well as full sovereignty over their phone code, while all the phone numbers that have been used so far, such as 381, 377 and 386, will be out of use," said Tahiri .

MTS licenses

Reaching agreement between Belgrade and Pristina, mediated by the EU, on the implementation of the Agreement on telecommunications in 2013 was confirmed by the European External Action Service (EAAs).The deal, according to a statement from the EU, to enable the company MTS doo, the newly formed daughter company of Telekom Serbia, "full licensed operations in the context of fixed telephony, as well as a temporary license for mobile telephony"."At the same time the beginning of the new company, International Telecommunication Union to Kosovo assign a three-digit area code," said in a statement that came from Bruxellesa.Glavni negotiator Serbia, Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric, welcomed the deal.

"The agreement between Belgrade and Pristina on telecommunications preserved the property of Telekom Serbia, and the agreement will have a positive impact on the overall relations, not only with Pristina, but also with the EU," said Djuric."They wanted to kidnap our property. We did not accept that. Now we come to something that involves an important thing, and that is the part of the so-called digital spectrum to be reserved for the media in the Serbian language," said Djuric.

Tahiri said that the agreement was "a great success of dialogue in Brussels".While Kosovo would get its own country code, MTS will receive "temporary and limited license, and will be registered under the laws of Kosovo," he confirmed.

The operator will have a limited number of customers, and the license for fixed telephony, in accordance with the laws of Kosovo.

• 14 Nov, 2016
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