On 17 May, World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, ITU marked 160 years of technology for humanity with a light show at the Place des Nations in Geneva — also streamed live on ITU’s ...

In the opening quarter of 2008, mobile phone users in Africa passed 280 million, overtaking the United States and Canada with their 277 million users. Africa added 70 million connections in 2007, ...

The 2nd UN Virtual Worlds Day is a global gathering that brings together leaders, innovators, and stakeholders to explore the transformative potential of AI-powered virtual worlds in addressing global ...

1. Allocation tables - International call sign series (Appendix 42 of the Radio Regulations), Blocks of coast station identification numbers, Blocks of selective call numbers for ship stations and ...

Unless specified otherwise, registration to ITU-R events requires the approval of the corresponding Designated Focal Points (DFP) for ITU-R event registration. Read more on registration to ITU-R ...

Extreme weather events, earthquakes, tsunamis, as well as pandemics and other human made related hazards pose increasing challenges to countries and communities. Digital technologies are key for ...

Technological advances mean that satellites can provide broadband communications to large areas (including entire regions or even continents) at minimal extra marginal cost. Satellites are also very ...

Until 1998, the ITU Global directory contained information both about ROAs that were Sector Members and non-Sector Members, but it now only contains information relating to ROAs that are Sector ...

The power and transformational potential of Internet access and use is not equally distributed. Of the estimated 2.6 billion people currently unconnected, the majority are women and girls. The digital ...

The Radio Regulations, Edition of 2024, contains the complete texts of the Radio Regulations adopted by the World Radiocommunication Conference of 1995 (WRC-95) and reviewed by the subsequent World ...

This Recommendation was renumbered as ITU-T Rec. G.9953 on 2005-05-27 without further modification Superseded ...

This Corrigendum was never published; its content has been included in the published Rec. ITU-T G.8273/Y.1368 (08/2013). Superseded ...