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…
ITU Blog: Mobile money, OTT and roaming: Will ITU members define fair competition and pricing?
Established in 1865, one of the founding principles of ITU was to provide a neutral venue for countries’ negotiation of interconnection rates for telegraph networks. The essence of this work lives on in ITU-T Study Group 3 (SG3), our standardization expert…
ITU-T Study Group 3 to consider proposals on the regulation of OTT services
The ITU-T Study Group 3 Regional Group for Africa (SG3RG-AFR) has proposed that ITU-T distribute a survey on the impact of over-the-top (OTT) services on data traffic and associated demands on network infrastructure. The proposal comes in parallel with the…
