The Federal Government is opposing proposed amendments to International Telecommunications Regulations (ITRs). The regulations assist in the operation of telecommunications networks across national borders. They are under the spotlight ...
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Work under way to draft new regulations at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) in Dubai this week could harm the Internet, warned Internet pioneer and Google executive Vint Cerf. “The Internet is under ...
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The US House of Representatives has voted unanimously to approve a resolution aimed at preventing any efforts to hand the United Nations more power to oversee the Internet. The resolution by the lower house of the US Congress had ...
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Negotiations on the future governance of international telecommunications will continue through the night at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) in Dubai. The international conference is attempting to revise ...
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The final treaty of the World Conference on International Telecommunications in Dubai includes a new provision that the treaty does not address content-related aspects of telecommunications, but retains a controversial proposal on fostering ...
The US has announced it will not sign the global telecom treaty being negotiated at a UN gathering in Dubai because it opens the door to governmental regulation of the internet, the US delegation chief said today. “The United States ...
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IDG News Service-Russia,China and other countries withdrew a proposal at the World Conference on International Telecommunications that according to some accounts aimed to bring the Internet under the control of the International ...
The future of internet governance is to be decided this week as rival groups hammer out a new international telecoms treaty. Regulators from 193 countries are negotiating new International Telecommunications Regulations(ITRs)at the World ...
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A suspected hacking attack has hit a UN agency meeting in Dubai at which delegates are discussing new telecommunications controls that could alter the way the internet is governed. Among other groups,European MPs have voiced concerns that ...
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The U.S.House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution urging the U.S.government not to give the United Nations'International Telecommunication Union(ITU)control over the Internet. The resolution was adopted by the House on ...
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The International Telecommunication Union(ITU)is hosting the World Conference on International Telecommunications(WCIT)in Dubai this week. Two thousand government regulators from 193 countries are meeting to update the International ...
Lobbying among countries and various special interests to"take control"of the internet is intensifying in advance of the International Telecommunications Union(ITU)World Conference on International Telecommunications in Dubai next week. ...
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The UK's Draft Data Communications Bill–aimed at making it easier for authorities to spy on electronic communications–will be useless and quite dangerous if enacted,says Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. "It will force many ...
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IDG News Service-The U.S.Ambassador to the European Union on Tuesday told European telecommunications operators why the U.S.will not support their proposals to change a treaty on the handling of international voice,data and video traffic. ...
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The International Telecommunication Union(ITU)has denied claims it is trying to control the internet through its upcoming revision of telecoms rules. The UN agency is updating its International Telecommunication Regulations(ITRs)at the ...
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