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Feb 27, 2014Editor’s Note: As this podcast was being prepared, on 19 February 2014, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission announced plans to issue network neutrality regulations under another section of the Telecommunications Act, and ...
Tags: ISPs, Podcast, FCC, net neutrality
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The U.N. Should Embrace Free and Open Broadband Markets and Allow Individual Countries
Dec 26, 2012The U.N.'s International Telecommunications Union should embrace free and open broadband markets and allow individual countries to reform their telecommunications regulations instead of attempting to centrally regulate the industry, the ...
Tags: U.N., ITU, telecommunications regulations, U.S.delegation
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US Confirmed It Resists Efforts by China to Put Internet Under Control of United Nations
Dec 21, 2012The US has confirmed it will resist efforts by China, Russia and their allies to put the internet under the control of the United Nations. The confirmation came in a statement issued by the US Department of State on US proposals to be ...
Tags: internet, telecommunications, network, IT industry
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UK Should Take More Control of Internet to Counter Us Stranglehold, Says It Entrepreneur
Dec 21, 2012The UK should take more control of the internet to counter the US stranglehold, says an IT entrepreneur. “A British scientist invented the world wide web, so why are we now made to feel lucky to be involved?” said Scott ...
Tags: UK, IT industry, US stranglehold, IT service
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The Federal Government Is Opposing Proposed Amendments to ITRs
Dec 18, 2012The 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 ...
Tags: Dubai, internet freedom, ITU, Middle East, telecommunications networks
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The US House of Representatives Has Voted Unanimously to Approve a Resolution
Dec 18, 2012The 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 ...
Tags: Internet, US, power, United Nations
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Regulators From 193 Countries Are Negotiating New ITRs at The WCIT in Dubai
Dec 10, 2012The 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 ...
Tags: of internet governance, WCIT, international telecoms treaty, ITRs