“The internet operates based on a system of voluntary standards, best practices, cooperation, and trust.” This cooperative model, they added, “is a model that works.

A U.S. House of Representatives committee has told the United Nations’ International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to keep its hands off the Internet. The House Energy and Commerce Committee ...

Today, U.S. Federal Communications Commissioner Robert McDowell will testify to Congress in a joint U.S. House subcommittee hearing on international Internet governance, that the free and open ...

Government officials will meet in Turkey for the next three weeks to discuss the future of the Internet and take action on key issues such as cybercrime and Internet oversight. The Plenipotentiary ...

Euro MPs also fear that if more significant control of the internet is handed to the ITU, this could end up stifling net neutrality, hindering innovation and driving up prices.

The United Nations' International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has called for a public consultation on a draft document ahead of a December meeting to finalize a new treaty for regulation of the ...

The United States has joined 20 other countries in refusing to sign a produced by the International Telecommunications Union. The objectors say the statement would harm Internet freedom by ...

Partly, that’s because a lot of internet infrastructure is owned and operated by private companies, and partly that’s because by the time many of the ITU member states became interested in ...