In short, Internet access would begin to resemble international telephone access with its high rates.
International telephone codes are allocated by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a UN agency also based in Geneva.
"We have enough (international telephone) circuits but it's very difficult to get connected to the local network in the U.S., " Cheng said.
Kosovo still does not have an international telephone dialling code - and, unlike other Balkan countries, its citizens cannot travel visa-free to the European Union.
Because apparently President Bush authorized the NSA to monitor the numbers of international telephone calls and emails of U.S. citizens, without the FISA warrant that's normally been required.
E-mail is cheaper than faxes and international telephone calls.
It also does not cover telephone conversations passing through international lines or telephone metering, increasingly used by police to secure telephone records of the numbers dialled by suspects.
From January 1st it will provide sweeping powers to monitor international electronic messages and telephone traffic.
The ITRs focused on international agreements for wired telephone connections.
Zogby International recently completed an extensive telephone survey for Allegheny College on civility and the need for compromise in politics.
Both the international service provider and the telephone company that serves Delhi and Mumbai, the two biggest cities, are to be privatised.
Decision Support International distributes financial data, telephone books and college catalogues to tiny, independent data factories across Delhi and Madras, where they are fed into computers and rearranged into new products for sale by its mostly American customers.
Mr Mandela enjoys playing an international role, especially over the telephone.
Although he was successful in getting the Egyptian carriers to cooperate, some Egyptians still managed to get online by making international data calls from old-fashioned telephone modem lines.
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It has a 30-year contract to manage the government's existing Luzon telephone network and permission to build an international gateway facility for overseas calls.
Companies like Delta-Three, run by Naom Bardin in New York, take international internet phone calls and connect them into the standard telephone networks.
In cross-border matters, the International Telecommunication Union, through which governments co-operate on telephone numbers, would be in charge.
Mr Damane, who was speaking on a telephone from his stronghold of Tiringulu, appealed to the international community to send a team to investigate the consequences of the attacks.
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.
New allegations that the NSA is compiling a database on millions of domestic telephone calls follows reports that the NSA had listened in on international calls that reached into the U.S. without obtaining court warrants.
Tempur-Pedic distributes its mattresses through 4, 430 furniture retail stores in the U.S. (and 3, 300 international stores), as well as through its Web site and via telephone orders generated by its television infomercials shown late at night when TV advertising time is the cheapest and insomniacs are most likely to be on the prowl for a solution.
Maintaining international unity has been frustrating at times, as Undersecretary Burns acknowledged in a telephone conference with reporters today.
That spy program was unveiled in a 2005 New York Times article that said government officials were working with private telecom companies to secretly monitor telephone and e-mail traffic of targeted individuals and groups, both domestic and international.
Pyongyang could test additional missiles soon despite the international furor over Wednesday's launches, Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said after making a protest via telephone to North Korea's ambassador to Canberra, Chon Jae Hong.
Her government said last week that it would host an international conference to help the Palestinians prepare for statehood, and she spoke to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas by telephone before she left Germany last week.
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