The Cuban delegation proposed to the conference, attended by representatives of more than 191 governments and more than 550 companies, the establishment of preferential phone call rates for Third World nations, Juan Fernandez, one of the island’s participants told ACN.
Fernandez, Cuba Communications and Information Ministry’s consultant explained that the proposal said the incomes from the payments for international calls could be invested by the poorest nations in the development of the infrastructure needed to support those systems.
World Bank’s reports said incomes in Africa for incoming calls from the United States dropped to the half from 1998 to 2002, and it is expected to get worse.
Cuba also rejected discriminatory actions regarding interconnection and access to public internet sites, in the meeting which is the most important event organized by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).
Government representatives, of the communications industry and the global regulations community have exchanged views about key aspects of policies related to the dramatic changes in information and communications technologies.
Founded as the International Telegraph Union in Paris on 17 May 1865, currently ITU is the second-oldest international organization still in existence, established to standardize and regulate international radio and telecommunications. Its main tasks include standardization, allocation of the radio spectrum, and organizing interconnection arrangements between different countries to allow international phone calls.
It is one of the specialized agencies of the United Nations, and has its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, next to the main United Nations campus.
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