Universal personal telecommunications (UPT) is a special segment of the international telephone

number space which has been set aside for universal personal telephone numbers. This service has
been allocated country code +87810 and is completed by a 10-digit subscriber number which
provides 10 billion unique numbers. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) introduced this
concept in 2001, referring to it as "global number portability". However, number portability normally
refers to the service of keeping an existing phone number after moving service to another provider.
The delegation of UPT was requested by VisionNG Chairman Herwart Wermescher and was
confirmed by Counsellor, SG2 of ITU-TSB Richard Hill on May 21, 2002.

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1The UPT service

2UPT service profile

3UPT number

4UPT environment

5References

6External links

The UPT service[edit]

The UPT standards have been developed to allow a UPT number to be associated with any device
on any network, anywhere in the world. An individual should be able to enter an access code to
make or receive calls on any device and can be provisioned as a global mobile telephone number.
UPT allows ad hoc sharing of physical devices and is intended to be independent of geography or
network provider. From the +87810 numbering space, operators can offer their customers next
generation services - voice, data, email, SMS, web and location-based services - using a single
"number for life" that transcends national boundaries and traditional ways of thinking about
communications.
Initially, UPT number blocks were allocated to VoIP or Next Generation networks but as technology
has advanced UPT is more and more been seen as a numbering and addressing solution for Digital
Identity and Internet of Things marketplace.
In February 2016, the ITU approved the assignment of a Mobile Country Code and Network Code
associated to the UPT Country Code. This allows for the provision of 10 billion unique IMSIs for the
deployment of Global Mobile Services.

UPT service profile[edit]

The UPT service profile is a record that contains all information related to a UPT user, which
information is required to provide that user with UPT service such as subscriptions to basic and
supplementing services and call-routing preferences. Each UPT service profile is associated with a
single UPT number. A Name Authority Pointer (NAPTR) is a type of resource record in the Domain
Name System of the Internet. NAPTR records are most commonly used for applications in Internet
telephony, for example, in the mapping of servers and user addresses in the Session Initiation
Protocol (SIP). The combination of NAPTR records with Service Records (SRV) allows the chaining
of multiple records to form complex rewrite rules which produce new domain labels or uniform
resource identifiers (URIs).

UPT number[edit]
The UPT number uniquely identifies a UPT user and is used to place a call to, or to forward a call to,
that user. A user may have multiple UPT numbers (such as a business UPT number for business
calls and a private UPT number for private calls). In the case of multiple numbers, each UPT number
is considered, from a network vantage point, to identify a distinct UPT user, even if all such numbers
identify the same person or entity. A single 87810 number simply and securely connects all your
online identities anywhere in the world, at any time, on any device. UPT is an enabling solution
providing one number for life and for multiple devices and services. It is a global range delegated by
the ITU and comprises 10 billion enum-enabled numbers with the prefix 87810 followed by a 10 digit
subscriber number. It is in Tier 1 ENUM DNS registry under 0.1.8.7.8.e164.arpa

UPT environment[edit]
UPT environment is the environment within which the UPT service facilities are offered, consisting of
combinations of global fixed, mobile and Next Generation networks.