Many of these defense projects ended up providing the military with telecommunication and Internet technologies that later became widely used by the public.
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Kurt Opsah, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said it could be many more months before the appeals court rules on the constitutionality of the letters, which the FBI sends to telecommunication companies, Internet service providers, banks and others amid terror investigations.
Customers include cable and satellite network operators, telecommunication companies, broadcasters and Internet companies that provide video services.
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.
Tegra 3 T30L Quad-Core 1.3Ghz processor and can be connected to the Internet through both wireless and high-speed telecommunication networks.
India's tablet computer market is still nascent compared with other parts of the world but is growing, with telecommunication companies rolling out high-speed Internet networks using third-generation and fourth-generation communication technology.
While the Internet looks pretty smooth, the storage, computer and telecommunication standards on which things operate are almost as different as a canal is from a superhighway.
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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Members of the European Parliament backed a resolution which urged member states to reject changes to the International Telecommunication Regulations (ITR) which would "negatively impact the internet, its architecture, operations, content and security, business relations, internet governance and the free flow of information online".
Unicom's edge is that it is the only listed integrated telecommunication company in China, with wireless, paging, domestic long distance and Internet divisions.
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.
According to the International Telecommunication Union, there are about 1.7 billion people in the world with internet access.
These include the international seismic monitoring network, the international array of sea level measuring stations (the Global Sea Level Observing System, the Global Telecommunication System of the World Meteorological Organization and associated public geostationary satellites) and the internet.
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