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UN wants $100 bln to boost digitalisation in poor countries
The United Nations has demanded a tripling of pledges aimed at filling the global digitalisation gap, asking countries and the private sector to hike the funding to $100 billion by 2026.
Around 2.7 billion people around the world were offline in 2022, according to data from the International Telecommunications Union, the UN's telecoms agency.
Romania to host International Telecommunication Union Plenipotentiary Conference 2022
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) hasy signed an agreement with the Government of Romania for the hosting of the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference 2022 (PP-22) in Bucharest, Romania's National Communications Administration and Regulation Authority (ANCOM) reported in a press statement released on Thursday.
Romania gets elected to the International Telecommunications Union Council
Romania, alongside the Russian Federation, Poland, Azerbaijan and the Czech Republic, on Monday was welcomed into the International Telecommunications Union Council (ITU-Council) after 137 of the 179 member states attending the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference 2018 voted in favour, according to a press statement released by the National Communications Administration and Regulatory Authority (ANCO
Turkey continues its mediocrity in the IT sector
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has released two reports this year, one in May and the last one a few days ago. The report in May described the information and communication technology (ICT) development in the world very briefly; the last one, however, gave us detailed insight. First of all, I would like to get you updated on the world's situation.
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ITU Moves to Enable Civil Aircraft Tracking by Satellite
Paricipants in the World Radiocommunication Conference in Geneva have agreed to allocate radiofrequency spectrum for global flight tracking in civil aviation, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) announced on Wednesday.
The agreement follows the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 in March 2014 while on a routine flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
Greeks fork out nearly 5 pct of their incomes on telecom services
By Vangelis Mandravelis
The average cost of a combined connection to a land line, a mobile line and broadband Internet amounts to 4.8 percent of the average annual income of Greek citizens, according to a survey by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).