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<title>US, Canada, UK refuse to sign ITU treaty over control issues</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/12/14/internet.governance.pressure.point.forced.withdrawl.from.talks/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1110/fiberoptic-2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Representatives of the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom are refusing to sign a treaty relating to Internet governance. The three countries all objected to the International Telecommunications Union treaty, refusing to sign anything that would allow "all states to have equal rights to the governance of the Internet."...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 12:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>US House of Representatives opposes UN Internet control</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/12/06/unanimous.vote.to.protect.current.internet.regulations/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1205/capitalhill-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The US House or Representatives has voted unanimously to keep the Internet "free from government control." The passing of a Senate resolution to oppose United Nation control of the Internet comes while the International Telecommunications Union conference, to decide the Internet's future regulation, is in progress in Dubai....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:06:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google, EU concerned over ITU Internet regulation proposals</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/11/23//</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1110/fiberoptic-2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Google and members of the European Parliament are opposing the idea of the United Nations changing the way the Internet is regulated. The International Telecommunications Union is holding a conference in Dubai next month to decide on new regulations, and both the search giant and the parliamentary institution are disputing various aspects of the conference....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:24:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UN patent meeting draws tech firms, regulators</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/10/10/summit.aimed.at.preventing.stifling.of.innovation/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1349907175_Apple-Samsung-HTC-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Hoping to bring some sense of order to the current technology patent environment, tech firms, patent officers, regulators, and others are meeting in Geneva at the behest of the United Nations. The BBC reports that the talks were organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a UN agency charged with ensuring that phone manufacturers agree to standards ensuring interactivity. The ITU...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:28:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>NHK Super Hi-Vision approved as 8K TV standard</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1204/panasonic145inchtvthumb.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has approved Japanese broadcaster NHK's Super Hi-Vision system as the standard for 8K video. The format proposal was unopposed by other broadcasters during a consultation period, which allowed the ITU to send letters to its members late last week, confirming it as the adopted standard....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2012 14:52:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UN division intervening in European mobile patent war</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/07/06/october.meetings.to.address.frand.innovation.stifling/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1341605734_uititubldg-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[In response to the bevy of lawsuits involving standards-essential patents, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a division of the United Nations, is hosting a set of talks on the mobile patent wars in Geneva during October. The ITU says that the "innovation-stifling use of intellectual property [lawsuits]" needs to be addressed at the meeting, and vital patents such as 3G or JPEG encod...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2012 23:08:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>ITU puts LTE-Advanced, WiMAX 2 under IMT-Advanced standard</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1201/samsunggalaxynexus-review24sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The International Telecommunication Union this week gave a label to a whole class of future 4G standards.  Both LTE-Advanced and WiMAX 2 (WirelessMAN-Advanced) will be classed as IMT-Advanced.  While the actual speeds of the standards vary, the ITU is promising "at least 100 times faster" performance than 3G and to get the higher speeds using less wireless bandwidth....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UN wants 50% of developing world online by 2015</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/10/26/wants.60.of.developed.world.online.as.well/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1110/fiberoptic-2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The UN has set some aggressive goals for bringing the world online. The organization's Broadband Commission for Digital Development has asked all countries to have broadband strategies in place by 2015. By that time, it has hopes that 50 percent of the populace living in developing countries, and 60 percent of those in developed nations, will have Internet access....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Congressional bill would require clear info on 4G speeds</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1106/annaeshoo.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Democratic Congresswoman Anna Eshoo has proposed a bill that would require carriers be forthright about increasingly confusing 4G terminology.  The Next Generation Wireless Disclosure Act would require that carriers publish details about their minimum 4G speeds, their coverage, and the reliability of the network.  Eshoo hoped to set a framework for "what 4G speed really is" and make sure customers...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>ITU: regular LTE, WiMAX and ģevolved 3Gī can be labeled 4G</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/12/19/t.mobile.4g.claims.gain.some.credence/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1012/itu_gallery.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has issued a press release that has expanded the use of the term 4G. Technologies that can now carry the 4G label include regular LTE, WiMAX and even what it broadly refers to as ģevolved 3G technologiesī. Previously it had maintained that the only technologies that would fit any definition of 4G would have to comply with either LTE Advanced or WiMAX...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 09:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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