Sunday, September 23, 2012

EU telcos defend UN Internet takeover plans


A trade association of 41 European telephone companies responded last week to mounting concerns over its controversial proposal to turn Internet traffic management over to the International Telecommunications Union, a regulatory body of the United Nations.


The European Telecommunications Network Operators Association, or ETNO, made its proposal in June, part of a year-long process to revise an ITU treaty known as the International Telecommunications Regulations. Changes to the treaty, which has not been revised since 1998, will be finalized later this year in Dubai at the World Conference on International Telecommunications.


Only national governments can vote on the new treaty. But non-governmental organizations like ETNO, who pay the ITU upwards of $70,000 annually (PDF), can participate in WCIT, including proposing changes to the treaty.


Luigi Gambardella, the head of a European network operators association, defends his who says his proposal for a multi-tiered Internet in an interview in with CNET last month.


(Credit: Declan McCullagh/CNET)

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