5 Additional Recommended Capabilities
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5 Additional Recommended Capabilities

  5.1 Mobile satellite service providers are encouraged to:

  • .1 route Automatic Location Identification (ALI) and Automatic Number Identification (ANI) in accordance with appropriate ITU-T Recommendations, with distress calls originating from MSS terminals routed directly to the RCCs responsible for voice and data calls;

  • .2 automatically route information contained in registration databases in accordance with resolution A.887(21), in a recognizable format and including the distress call to the responsible RCC, once means are established for doing so; and

  • .3 be capable of retrieving maritime safety information in a timely manner from NAVAREA, METAREA, other relevant co-ordinators, and the International Ice Patrol Service, in a standard format and process established by those co-ordinators.


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