If you don’t work in the telecom sector, chances are you have not heard of the International Telecommunication Union. The influence of this rather obscure Geneva-based UN body is quite striking: it is responsible for everything from managing and allocating spectrum and telecom satellite orbits, to allocating the country dialling codes, and more broadly, setting the standards for the global telecommunications system.The Union’s regulations (ITRs), signed by 178 countries, provide “the only truly globally agreed principles today on international telecommunications,” its Secretary General Hamadoun Toure explained in a speech at Columbia University earlier this year.
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Internet freedom at stake?
If you don’t work in the telecom sector, chances are you have not heard of the International Telecommunication Union. The influence of this rather obscure Geneva-based UN body is quite striking: it is responsible for everything from managing and allocating spectrum and telecom satellite orbits, to allocating the country dialling codes, and more broadly, setting the standards for the global telecommunications system.