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Sunday, September 16, 2012

World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT)


In December this year, representatives of 193 governments will meet in Dubai to vote on critical proposals that will decide how the Internet is governed from now on.

Between December 4 and 13, 2012 the governments will review an international treaty known as International Telecom Regulations (ITRs) under the aegis of a lesser known U.N. bureaucracy — the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).

 The ITRs were last reviewed in 1988, when phone companies worldwide were government-owned and the Internet was not available for consumer use.

 According to R. Chandrashekhar, Secretary of the Department of Telecom, the government is examining the broad issues, but is yet to take a final position. “We have invited inputs from the industry and will consider the views of civil society and academia,”

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