International Telecommunication Union

Pressure grows for IT to be included in Copenhagen agreement

Tom Young, Computing , Tuesday 24 November 2009 at 17:09:00 Cisco and Ericsson chief executives are understood to be keen, as well as UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon The international body that regulates telecommunications has...

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40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s Ethernet Standard Project Goes to Sponsor Ballot

Approval of Related ITU-T Standard Also Pending IEEE 802.3™ Ethernet protocols with operating speeds of 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s are one step closer to reality. On Friday November 20th, the IEEE 802 Executive Committee approved...

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The World in 2009: ICT Facts and Figures

International Telecommunications Union’s report The World in 2009: ICT facts and figures points out that mobile technologies and broadband are making major inroads in developing countries. It argues that even though cellular...

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ITU to hold summit in Belarus to promote digital connectivity in CIS

GENEVA, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) will hold a summit on Nov. 26-27 in Minsk, Belarus, to promote digital connectivity in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the ITU announced...

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Doordarshan wants share in 3.4-3.6 Ghz

The frequency band of 3.4-3.6 Ghz is primarily meant for fixed and fixed-satellite service and not for broadcasting as per International Telecommunication Union norms NEW DELHI, INDIA: While the Department of Telecom is busy...

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Watch the SIP Gotchas

Two more “gotchas” for SIP trunking adoption: Lack of usable fax services and E-911. Fax over IP has always been the thorn in the side of VOIP. While standards such as the International Telecommunications Union T.38 enable fax...

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Government Must Embrace Enlightened Policies- ICT Regulators

At the wake of broadband becoming the new baseline, the global Information and Communication Technology (ICT) regulators under the aegis of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), has enjoined governments to engage in...

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Africa: Taking Phone Calls From a Treetop

Recently there was a tale of a palm wine tapper in Pendembu locality in Sierra Leone, who in the course of his daily activities, inadvertently climbed a palm wine tree only for his mobile phone to begin to ring.

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China orders Microsoft to halt some Windows sales

A man passes by the Microsoft booth at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Telecom World 2009 exhibition in Geneva October 5, 2009. REUTERS/Valentin Flauraud (SWITZERLAND BUSINESS) VALENTIN FLAURAUD/REUTERS Court...

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LTE picked to be mobile broadband workhorse

The Asia-Pacific region will have 43.6 million High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) connections by the end of 2009 that will drive the adoption of Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology, according to analyst firm IDC.

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