Considering measures to achieve this is one of the most important items on WCIT's agenda.

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Early discussions at Wcit have included a debate over an internet-related clause championed by Tunisia.

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As a crossroads in the interconnected global economy, Dubai is a natural venue to bring together the diversity of voices and views at the WCIT.

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Called the World Conference on International Telecommunications, or WCIT, the conference was intended to update a treaty governing international telecommunications that hasn't been refreshed since 1988.

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Their plan is to use WCIT to resurrect the old international long distance model, enabling them to extract revenue from high-volume websites and other Internet services.

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Just prior to WCIT, European experts published research demonstrating that some countries were advancing proposals in that forum that were at odds with their WTO obligations.

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We cannot afford to miss the opportunities presented by WCIT.

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The U.S and 55 other countries left WCIT last week without signing the treaty after extensive negotiations led to a treaty text that included language on spam, security, and government control of the Internet.

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Prior to the opening of the WCIT conference, for example, Google organized a campaign to raise awareness of the secret negotiations and to encourage users to express their disappointment with both the process and substance of the treaty revisions.

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There are some who want to use the review of the 1988 ITRs in December at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) as an excuse to impose legacy telecommunications regulation on the Internet and Internet Protocol networks and services.

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That is what WCIT is about.

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This is why the United States is strongly represented at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) treaty conference in Dubai this month, where over 100 delegates from the public sector, private sector, and civil society are joining with our international partners to ensure the future of global, interoperable telecommunications networks.

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