UN makes changes to telecommunications treaty | GulfNews.com

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• Delegates at the WCIT at the Dubai World Trade Centre. Before the agreement was reached, negotiations and compromises were going on among member states until morning.

An agreement to update 24-year-old United Nations telecommunications regulations was approved against the opposition of countries including the US, Canada, Australia, Philippines, India, Costa Rica, Serbia, Finland, Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal and the UK, whose officials walked out on the talks on concerns about internet regulation and censorship.
The new agreement will come into effect in January 2015.
The last time the treaty was updated was in 1988 in Melbourne, Australia.

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