Q&A: What’s the economic impact of ‘over-the-top’ (OTT) players?
Over-the-top (OTT) services such as Skype and WhatsApp are among today’s most popular communications services, and their providers are among the information and communication technology (ICT) sector’s most innovative and profitable companies. Network operators and OTT players, despite having quite…
Bridging the Standardization Gap: Lessons from the Caribbean
“In perusing the work of BSG [ITU’s Bridging the Standardization Gap programme], I was pleased to note that its main goals include addressing the disparities in the ability of developing countries to access and influence international ITU telecommunication standards, and facilitating…
In Memoriam: Pedro Oliva Brunet
Pedro Oliva Brunet represented Cuba in ITU governing conferences and was an active contributor to ITU standardization. An engineer with over 50 years’ experience in telecommunications, Pedro played a leading role in ITU’s study of economic and policy aspects of…
Press release: ITU strengthens ties between technology, business and policy
Economic and policy requirements to play a greater role in informing ITU standardization Geneva, 9 March 2016 – The international community is looking to ITU’s unique public-private partnership of members for a neutral platform to strengthen the ties between technical innovation,…
Press release: ITU cost model to assist regulatory guidance of mobile roaming tariffs
New ITU technical guide and online tool to gauge fairness of roaming charges Geneva, 15 December 2015 – A new ITU-T technical guide for National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs) will assist regulators in their efforts to create an enabling environment for fair and…
Mobile money and Universal Service find a home in the ITU-T group for economic and policy issues
ITU-T Study Group 3 (economic and policy issues) has created a new working group on ‘economic and competitiveness aspects of mobile money services’. The group aims to harmonize approaches to the regulation and costing of mobile money services. It will…