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News about itu

• IMT-2020 is the future of mobile - but you can keep calling it 5G

  The ITU has chosen a formal name for the next generation, coming in 2020

• Over 4 billion people still have no Internet connection

  Mobile broadband is seen as the savior, but barriers such as a lack of network coverage and content in local languages have to be overcome

• Global Forum: Innovation creates opportunity, causes disruption

  Speakers predict continued upheaval through 3D printing, drones and driverless cars.

• Broadband boost: G.fast testing lab, consortium to foster 100G over copper

  News from the Broadband World Forum is that the University of New Hampshire's InterOperability Laboratory has been tapped to test G.fast ultra-high-speed DSL technology and ...

• Three billion Internet users by the end of the year, says UN body

  Majority of mobile broadband subscriptions will be in the developing world

• ITU standardises 1Gbps over copper, but services won't come until 2015

  G.fast standard will open the door for 4K video over telephone wires

Features about itu

• Opinion: Looking forward to a future Internet

  The World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) did not turn out quite the way that those who would control the Internet wanted