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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Other countries want to give a UN agency, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a supervisory role.
International telephone codes are allocated by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a UN agency also based in Geneva.
The European Parliament has said the UN's International Telecommunications Union (ITU) was "not the appropriate body" to have authority.
"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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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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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.
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