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,…
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…
The United States will oppose a bid to revise a global treaty to bring the Internet under UN control or to impose new taxes on Web traffic, the head of a US delegation said Wednesday. The US will submit its formal proposal Friday for the December conference held by the…