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Internet remains unregulated as UN Internet treaty fails
Failure to sign agreement at ITU conference stops governments having greater powers to control phone calls and data A proposed global telecoms treaty that would give national governments control of the internet has been blocked by the US and key western and African nations. They said they are “not able to sign…
House unanimously blocks imaginary UN plot to control the Internet
The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday unanimously passed a resolution (PDF) declaring that Congress is firmly opposed to the Untied Nations taking control of the Internet — something the global governing body has not proposed to do. In an echo of a recent Senate vote on a treaty on…
UN not after Internet ‘kill switch’ or any disruptive regulations: official
The head of the United Nations’ International Telecommunications Union (ITU) said Monday that despite all the rumors about a so-called “kill switch” or takeover of the Internet are simply unfounded. The ITU convened Monday in Dubai to begin discussing proposals for global Internet regulations submitted by 123 member states, including…
U.S. in tough debate on UN Internet rules
WASHINGTON — The US faces a tough debate with emerging nations such as India and Brazil at an upcoming UN conference discussing global rules for the Internet, the US delegation chief said Wednesday. Terry Kramer, who heads the US delegation for the December gathering of the UN’s International Telecommunications Union,…
Showdown set on bid to give UN control of Internet
It is expected to be the mother of all cyber diplomatic battles. When delegates gather in Dubai in December for an obscure UN agency meeting, fighting is expected to be intense over proposals to rewrite global telecom rules to effectively give the United Nations control over the Internet. Russia, China…
UN: A third of the world’s population is online
More than a third of the world’s population is online while mobile phone uptake increased by more than 600 million in 2011 to around six billion, a UN agency said Thursday. But the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) highlighted huge disparities in the cost of services, with the poorer parts of…
U.S. will oppose global telecommunications regulations
The United States will oppose any major revision to 24-year-old global telecommunications regulations at an international conference in December, the head of the US delegation said Monday, insisting the Internet must remain free and open. “We need to avoid suffocating … the Internet space through well-meaning but overly-proscriptive proposals that…
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