1. ICPS 1 Two triallists have been selected: Energis and WorldCom Energis and WorldCom are currently sharing the chairperson role. The ICPS Implementation Group is meeting weekly on Thursdays at 10am.

2. ICPS 2 Industry Documents are being updated to reflect: –the revised Determination (issued Nov ‘00); –the file transfer system being the preferred Front-End System; and –the exclusion of Surftime and FRIACO number ranges from both ICPS and CPS. New versions of the Process Manual (Issue 2) and the Product Description (Issue 3) have been agreed and will be posted on the Oftel website.

3. ICPS 3 Other documents will be updated concurrently with BT’s Front-end system development. This is estimated to take eight weeks. The trial is estimated to take a further three weeks. As no OLOs have expressed an intent to use the Web Browser system, BT has been requested to focus its resources on the development of the File Transfer system.

4. ICPS 4 Estimated demand (validation requests) provided to Oftel exceeds BT’s estimated system capacity (100k transactions per month). BT is currently looking into potential system flexibility to process more orders. The ICPSIG has agreed, endorsed by Oftel, that all ICPS-compliant autodiallers should be able to receive payment by BT. The issues now centre around how to achieve this in practice.