ITU Secretary General Hamadoun Toure calls broadband "the next truly transformational technology."

VOA: special.2010.10.25

"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.

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"We are seeing an unwelcome trend in today's marketplace to use standard- essential patents to block markets, " said the ITU secretary general Hamadoun Toure when the event was announced.

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Parts of the US tech industry have also been concerned by remarks by the ITU's secretary general, Dr Hamadoun Toure, that the meeting should "address the current disconnect between sources of revenue and sources of costs, and to decide upon the most appropriate way to do so".

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