Consolidated Decision on the Wholesale Access to Data and the Provision of Publicly Available Directory Information Services

This document consolidates the MCA's Decisions on the Directory Information Services of 22 April 2015 and 24 February 2016.

Providers of Publicly Available Telephone Services (PATS) are required to ensure that their subscribers are given the option to feature in directory information services.  The Malta Communications Authority (MCA) nonetheless identified the need to elaborate and give further clarity to the overall framework and process by which PATS providers obtain and share their subscribers' personal data for the purposes of the directory information services which they, and other directory information service providers, may offer.