By Roy Choi |
Thursday a coalition of mostly Western nations refused to sign a new United Nations telecoms treaty. The 193-nation meeting in Dubai covered an array of telecommunications topics including Internet censorship, Internet fraud, spam, transparency on mobile phone charges, and internationally emergency phone number for mobile…
By Adriana Lee |
It’s official — we’ve reached a milestone, people: According to the International Telecommunications Union’s annual report, Measuring the Information Society 2012, the global population is sporting six billion cell phone subscriptions. (Two billion, or a full one-third of them, are from China and India.) This…
By Adriana Lee |
Should the control over the Internet pass to the United Nations? That’s the question that could arise when the U.N.’s International Telecommunications Union hosts its World Conference on International Telecommunications this December. While it might be hard to imagine anyone jockeying for control over something as…
