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Major global mobile operators, vendors, device ecosystem players, international organisations, and financing institutions such as the World Bank Group, the ITU, and the WEF Edison Alliance will form a global coalition to drive solutions to boost handset affordability for vulnerable populations, announced by mobile network operators organisation GSMA.

To mark International Girls in ICT Day 2023, giant Chinese telco Huawei will offer classes and technology programs to teenage girls and young women in Thailand.

Telecommunications company Ericsson is committing to empower one million children and young people by 2025 by giving them access to digital learning, tools, content, and development programs.

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is set to launch new 2020 guidelines on Child Online Protection (COP), re-designed from the ground up to reflect what the ITU says are the significant shifts in the digital landscape in which children find themselves, such as the Internet of Things, connected toys, online gaming, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence.

The Global Esports Federation (GEF) has joined the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) in a move aimed at creating the conditions necessary to establish international standards and guidelines for the esports ecosystem.

Prices for telecommunication services continue to decline but do not translate into rapidly increasing Internet penetration rates, suggesting that there are other barriers to Internet use, according to a new global report by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).

"Expand horizons, change attitudes" is the theme for the International Telecommunication Union's International Girls in ICT Day 2018 to be observed worldwide on 26 April.  

About half the world will be online by the end of this year, according to a report from the UN agency, the International Telecommunications Union.

A global investment of US$450 billion in network infrastructure will be needed to connect the next 1.5 billion unconnected people worldwide, according to a report from the ITU presented to the UN Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development at the World Economic Forum currently being held in Davos, Switzerland.

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has issued a new technical guide and online tool which it says will assist national regulatory authorities to set fair and affordable tariffs for international mobile roaming voice services.

Australia has moved up slightly in the rankings of countries in the world according to its level of ICT development, including access, use and skills, as the number of people around the world now online climbs to over 3 billion.

Radio-frequency spectrum needed for the operation of short-range high-resolution automotive radar has been allocated in the 79 GHz frequency band, in a move designed to help improve road safety.

The international regulatory framework for radio communications – the Radio Regulations - is under review at the World Radiocommunication Conference against the background of the rapid evolution of information and communication technologies (ICT).

Now hear this: a new listening experience is the goal of new standards for advanced audio broadcasting technology newly approved by the ITU.

Microwave communications Magna Systems and Engineering has appointed Andrew King to the role of telecoms and RF specialist, responsible for the compliance, architecture and solutions design aspects of the company's proposals.

The ITU (International Telegraph Union) has announced an official roadmap for 5G mobile development and defined a new standard for its vision. Although the ITU has released few actual details, widespread reports say that 5G means up to 20Gbps speeds, a 5G Olympics, IoT advances and more.

New approaches to regulation and infrastructure funding are required to promote digital inclusion and to close the ‘digital gap’ between industrialised economies and developing economies in emerging markets.

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations agency for information and communication technologies, has just marked its 150th anniversary as one of the driving forces spreading the benefits of new communications technologies around the globe.

The US Commerce Secretary has pledged support for a ‘free and open’ Internet.

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has established a focus group on digital financial services to promote financial inclusion using ICT. It says the initiative is in response to a proposal from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which is a member of ITU's standardisation body.