International Telecommunication Union

Kamaleon: Off-grid Internet on wheels

Dayn Amade explains why Kamaleon became an ITU member and contributed its solar-powered solution for rural connectivity for ...
PC World

House Panel: ITU Should Stay Away From Internet Regulation

A U.S. House of Representatives committee has told the United Nations’ International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to keep its hands off the Internet. The House Energy and Commerce Committee voted ...
Cfr.org

The ITU and Unbundling Internet Governance

At this month's Plenipotentiary Conference of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) in Busan, South Korea, India will argue that the ITU has a role to play in Internet governance: first, ...
The Washington Post

Protecting the open Internet may require defunding the ITU. Here’s how to do it.

In the past week, two senior U.S. officials, FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai and Republican Rep. Greg Walden (Ore.) were quoted as saying the United States should pull funding from the International ...
ZDNet

FCC to Congress: U.N.'s ITU Internet plans 'must be stopped'

Today, U.S. Federal Communications Commissioner Robert McDowell will testify to Congress in a joint U.S. House subcommittee hearing on international Internet governance, that the free and open ...
Network World

With internet connection reaching new heights, ITU looks to the IoT

A new ITU report sheds light on data about how the world's communications networks have connected people, and the future potential for things. The number of connected people on the planet has reached ...
Bangkok Post

ITU's deficient internet plan

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) will try once again today to take the dominant role in running the internet. The still-obscure United Nations agency has formed a partnership with the ...
Los Angeles Times

Editorial: Just what does this U.N. agency want to do to the Internet?

The International Telecommunication Union, an arm of the United Nations that oversees global communications networks, has alarmed tech advocates by debating whether to extend its authority to the ...
Computerworld

ITU: Internet policy still on agenda

Public policy formulation in all domains, including the Internet, is the sovereign right of member states, said ITU Secretary General Hamadoun Toure on Wednesday, suggesting that a debate over control ...
ZDNet

ITU, Internet Society sign deal to fight spam

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the Internet Society have signed an agreement to jointly battle spam, which still accounts for 80 percent of e-mail traffic worldwide. The ...
Cfr.org

What to Expect at the 2018 ITU Plenipotentiary Conference and What It Means for the Internet

Plenary session at the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference 2014 in Busan, South Korea. C. Montesano Casillas/Flickr User ITU Pictures In the past, U.S. pundits have raised red flags over a quadrennial ITU ...
PC World

US Tech Leaders Fear Proposed Internet Regulations, Taxes at ITU Meeting

A meeting of the United Nations’ International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in December could lead to broad new regulations of the Internet, including per-click taxes, if U.S. and other delegations ...