The ITU, gentle readers, has operated largely in obscurity for the last 150 plus years.
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Other countries want to give a UN agency, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a supervisory role.
The peril lies with changes that would ultimately sweep up Internet services into decades-old ITU paradigms.
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Celebrate internationalism, congratulate the ITU on its stewardship of the negotiations, and go home.
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The deal also gives ITU some assets in Chile and Uruguay, providing additional diversification and growth opportunities.
Washington had to leave Unesco when it played the kind of dangerous game the ITU has now chosen.
Women with the Wave is organized by ABU, KBS and ITU in partnership with UNESCO and other organizations.
International telephone codes are allocated by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a UN agency also based in Geneva.
The showdown will happen at the ITU in Dubai next month, during a meeting of the 193 member countries.
More details of all major topics are available via the ITU website.
The European Parliament has said the UN's International Telecommunications Union (ITU) was "not the appropriate body" to have authority.
The future not only of the treaty but of the ITU itself, meanwhile, is now in grave doubt.
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In that regard, the ITU has become dangerously close to associating itself with the overtly repressive goals of Russia.
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Scheidies says ITU and USA Triathlon have made promises on this before and he doubts change will come anytime soon.
The upcoming renegotiation of the treaty that defines the ITU's competences is regarded as an opportunity to push this agenda.
Analysts working on reports that are circulated internally or to a select group of clients, are not eligible for ITU accreditation.
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Less than 30% of ITU's business is big-business lending, so this stock is a bet primarily on consumers and small businesses.
The ITU has also been working closely with Russian security firm Kaspersky Labs to establish its expertise in cyber warfare.
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Lack of Internet access is holding back growth, according to ITU figures.
Nonetheless, Christy believes that investment in ITU is not all that risky.
In the ITU's video Mr Kramer concludes that compromise might be impossible.
"We candidly cannot support an ITU treaty that is inconsistent with a multi-stakeholder model of Internet governance, " said Kramer during a conference session.
The ITU's roundtable discussing the controversy over standard-essential patents has wrapped up its first day, and surprise -- there wasn't immediate harmony.
The United States is very much against any attempt by delegates of the ITU creating proposals for regulating the internet at the conference.
This was in spite of the ITU's earlier pledge that disputed issues would only be resolved by consensus and not a majority vote.
The ITU attributes the latter figure to the relatively high price of fixed access in these countries, and the increasing availability of mobile alternatives.
The Russia Today news service had previously reported that China and India backed the Kremlin's view that the ITU could take over these functions.
"These are hot areas, " says Christy, pointing out that in the first half of 2006, ITU's personal loan growth rose by more than 20%.
The ITU has repeatedly said that there must be common ground, rather than just a majority view, before changes are introduced to the treaty.
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.
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