Other countries want to give a UN agency, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a supervisory role.
According to the International Telecommunication Union, there are about 1.7 billion people in the world with internet access.
According to the International Telecommunication Union, 75% of households in developing countries own at least one radio receiver.
In cross-border matters, the International Telecommunication Union, through which governments co-operate on telephone numbers, would be in charge.
International telephone codes are allocated by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a UN agency also based in Geneva.
In 2012 a report carried out by the International Telecommunication Union found that there were six billion mobile phone subscriptions worldwide.
There were nearly 6 billion mobile phone subscriptions worldwide in 2011, according to the International Telecommunication Union, a branch of the United Nations.
The International Telecommunication Union in Geneva wrings its hands at the prospect of finding orbital slots for the 1, 500 satellites that are now planned on paper.
The talks were organised by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN agency responsible for ensuring phone-makers agree standards so that their devices can interact with each other.
In a rare showing of bipartisanship, the House unanimously passed a resolution to ban UN regulation of the internet at the hands of the ITU (International Telecommunication Union).
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The International Telecommunication Union, which unites all 191 countries that use the world telephone system, hopes to take the lead in pushing for a global convention against cybercrime.
According to the International Telecommunication Union, there were almost 6 billion mobile subscriptions at the end of 2011, which is equivalent to 87 percent of the world population.
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China is the world's biggest market for online businesses, home to about a quarter of the world's Internet users, according to the International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations agency.
About 38% of the world's population uses the internet in 2013, up from about 35% last year, according to the International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations agency dedicated to information and communication technology.
The failure of the proposal does not mean that the International Telecommunication Union will actually seek to regulate the actions of internet companies, but it does leave open the possibility of broader rules that could disrupt the status quo.
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Last year, the UN's International Telecommunication Union (ITU) told us there were five billion mobile subscriptions worldwide at the close of 2010, and now it's reporting that at the end of 2011, that figure hit a staggering six billion.
Only 18% of people in the developing world have access to the internet, but more than 50% owned a mobile-phone handset at the end of 2009 (a number which has more than doubled since 2005), according to the International Telecommunication Union.
The proposal, which was leaked today, has been allegedly introduced by ETNO (European Telecommunications Network Operators Association), a Brussels-based group representing such companies as Belgacom, SwissCom, Cyta, Eircom and Deutsche Telecom, and will be officially discussed at the UN International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in December.
In 2011, India alone added 142 million new mobile phone subscriptions -- twice as many as in the whole of Africa, and more than in Europe, the Middle East and the former Soviet republics combined, according to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in a June 2012 report.
In 2010, a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report listed 19 organizations with ongoing initiatives that influence cybersecurity and governance, including the International Telecommunication Union, the European Union, the Council of Europe, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, the International Organization for Standardization, and the Internet Engineering Task Force.
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