This is one reason international bodies such as the United Nations hold occasional global forums like the Internet Governance Forum or the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) World Conference on International Telecommunications to talk about coordinated strategies to keep traffic flowing on our global highway.
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The International Telecommunications Union estimates that 4.6 billion mobile phones are in use at the moment.
The European Parliament has said the UN's International Telecommunications Union (ITU) was "not the appropriate body" to have authority.
The claims are relatively easy to make because the International Telecommunications Union, the wireless industry standards body, hasn't set a firm 4G definition.
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The new report is a joint study from security firms Symantec, Kaspersky, the Crypto Labs in Budapest and the UN's International Telecommunications Union.
The Russians, closely followed by the Chinese, are pushing for the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), another UN agency, to be given responsibility for internet governance.
"Access to broadband in an affordable manner is our greatest challenge, " Dr Hamadoun Toure, secretary general of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), told BBC News.
Its prospective members will include Internet standards bodies such as the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, the International Telecommunications Union and the World Wide Web Consortium.
In 2005, the International Telecommunications Union forecast world-wide mobile traffic would increase from around 610 petabytes a year in 2010 to around 1450 petabytes a year in 2020.
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For the last two weeks, delegates from more than 190 countries have been discussing the UN treaty at a conference for the International Telecommunications Union in Dubai.
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The three-day event is hosted by UNESCO and co-organized with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
"My dream is that a new agency like the International Telecommunications Union will be proposed at UN level to coordinate all this activity, " said Dr Claudio Portelli from the Italian space agency (Asi).
The International Telecommunications Union, the special agency at the United Nations that coordinates cybersecurity efforts, approached Kaspersky Lab in late April to investigate a series of incidents tied to a malware program known as Wiper.
The Broadband Commission for Digital Development was established in 2010 by UNESCO and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), with the support of United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, to promote the adoption of broadband-friendly practice and policies.
The lack of information resources is particular glaring in the context of access to the Internet and computers in Nepal, where the International Telecommunications Union estimates that only 6, 9 percent of the population has access to the networks.
Barring a radical change in the technological playing field, there will never be an effective cyber equivalent of the International Atomic Energy Agency despite all the aspirations of organizations like the International Telecommunications Union to serve such a function.
According to figures by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and the Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Geografia, internet access in Mexico has risen from 2.7% of the population in 2000 to 29.4% in 2010, bringing over 32, 000, 000 million people online.
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