Introduction Network planning plays an important role in the overall responsibility to provide telecommunications and due consideration has to be given to a number of relevant factors@ e.g. technical@ economic and operational. International planning involves@ by definition@ a number of Administrations which may have different national objectives and may operate under different economic constraints. It is apparent@ therefore@ that these differences must be reconciled if cooperative planning is to be achieved. This Recommendation describes a possible method for concerned Administrations to organize a procedure to implement this cooperative network planning process.