NEW YORK — Broadband access was recognized as critical to achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the call to action to ensure access for all or risk that some vulnerable populations could fall...
Read MoreGENEVA — ​​​​New data released by ITU, the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies (ICTs), show that 830 million young people are online, representing 80 percent of the youth...
Read MoreGENEVA — Investment opportunities abound for the private sector to connect the unconnected, according to “Measuring the Information Society Report​” from ITU, the United Nations specialized agency for information...
Read MoreGENEVA — ITU, the United Nations agency for information and communication technologies standards, has doubled the access speeds achievable with the ITU G.fast broadband standard. G.fast is now capable of enabling data rates up...
Read MoreGeneva – ITU members achieved final approval of G.fast, the new ITU broadband standard designed to deliver access speeds of up to 1 Gbps over existing telephone wires. The standard answers to service providers’ need for a...
Read MoreNEW YORK — The U.S. ranks 19th globally in terms of number of people online, ahead of other OECD countries like Germany (20th) and Australia (21st), but behind the United Kingdom (12th), Japan (15th) and Canada (16th). The...
Read MoreGeneva – G.fast, a new ITU broadband standard that promises up to 1 Gbit/s over existing copper telephone wires, is one step closer following a meeting of ITU-T Study Group 15 this week. G.fast is designed to deliver superfast...
Read MoreGeneva – A new video coding standard building on the PrimeTime Emmy award winning ITU-T H.264 / MPEG-4 AVC has been agreed by ITU members. The new codec will considerably ease the burden on global networks where, by some...
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