ITU’s Measuring digital development: Facts and figures 2022 offers a snapshot of the most important ICT indicators, including estimates for the current year. Latest figures show that an estimated 5.3 ...

In the last 30 years, the number of Internet users surged from a few million to almost five billion. Yet the potential remains untapped because one-third of humanity remains offline, and many users ...

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29 are organizing a joint workshop on “Future video coding – advanced signal processing, AI and standards” in Geneva, Switzerland ...

The ITU Handbook on Small Satellites was developed in response to Resolution ITU-R 68 on “Improving the dissemination of knowledge concerning the applicable regulatory procedures for small satellites, ...

In 2019, Internet use surpassed the 50 per cent mark, 75 per cent of the total world population had an active mobile broadband subscription, and fixed broadband subscriptions had grown to just over 15 ...

Study Group 16 is responsible for studies relating to ubiquitous multimedia applications, multimedia capabilities for services and applications for existing and future networks, including the ...

Extremely low latency in combination with high availability, reliability and security will define the character of the Tactile Internet. It will have a marked impact on business and society, ...

The Final Acts of the 2022 Plenipotentiary Conference contain the Decisions and Resolutions abrogated, adopted or revised by the Plenipotentiary Conference (Bucharest, 2022), as well as the list of ...

Digital infrastructure has become a foundation for many activities in communities, businesses, and governments. It helps to maximize human capacity and quality of life by increasing people’s access to ...

Like most technology-driven industries, the telecommunications sector has historically been characterized by steady growth punctuated by an occasional leap forward, usually when a new communications ...

This framework, designed to help countries understand and navigate their unique cybersecurity ecosystems, emerged from the recognition of the need for a more comprehensive approach to cybersecurity ...

While virtually all urban areas in the world are covered by a mobile-broadband network, worrying gaps in connectivity and Internet access persist in rural areas. Connectivity gaps in rural areas are ...