From broadband Internet to latest-generation wireless technologies, from aeronautical and maritime navigation to radio astronomy and satellite-based meteorology, from convergence in fixed-mobile phone, Internet access, data, voice and TV broadcasting to next-generation networks, ITU is committed to connecting the world.

UNESCO: Post-Conflict and Post-Disaster Responses

Despite the fact that we were crossing some of the most desolate terrain in the United States, we had access to hundreds of channels of satellite radio, turn-by-turn navigation, and voice communication to anywhere in the world.

FORBES: The New Pharaohs: Confusing Triumphalism and State Coercion With Progress

Each onboard ADS-B set consists of a Global Positioning System satellite navigation unit, two Pentium microprocessors, some software and a radio transmitter-receiver--not much more gear than you would find behind the dash of a new Cadillac.

FORBES: Free flight