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• 57% of world’s population can't access the Internet

  Around 4.2 billion people or 57 per cent of the world's population do not have adequate access to the Internet, with the majority living in developing countries, a new report revealed.

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

  There's finally something real to 5G: a name.

• Over 4 billion people still have no Internet connection

  The number of people using the Internet is growing at a steady rate, but 4.2 billion out of 7.4 billion will still be offline by the end of the year.

• Global Forum: Innovation creates opportunity, causes disruption

  Geneva, Switzerland - The 23rd Global Forum, an annual policy and strategy conference for technology leaders, was held last week in the shadow of the International Telecommunications Union's (ITU) modernist tower.

• IPv6, IANA transition headline APNIC meeting

  Spurring adoption of IPv6 and promoting a smooth transition of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) are key Internet governance priorities for the year ahead, according to the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC).

• No one group should govern Internet, says Turnbull

  Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has urged world leaders to maintain a multi-stakeholder model for governance of the Internet as the United States releases its stewardship of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA).

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

  The ITU has taken a big step in the standardisation of G.fast, a broadband technology capable of achieving download speeds of up to 1Gbps over copper telephone wire.

• What's next for Ethernet?

  Internet traffic will quadruple in five years and the number of mobile Internet connections will exceed the world's population by 2017, according to Cisco research.

• ITU group OKs H.265 video standard to cut bandwidth use in half

  An ITU group has approved a successor to the H.264 video encoding standard, opening the door to future video transmission using only half the bandwidth that's now required.

• ITU says "network outage" after website cyberattack disrupted Dubai conference

  The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN body that has played a standards-setting role for global telecommunication networks over the decades, Wednesday night suffered a website attack that severely disrupted a conference to discuss its Internet influence.

• ITU packet inspection standard raises privacy concerns, says CDT

  The UN's telecommunications standards organization has approved a standard for deep packet inspection (DPI) that raises serious concerns about privacy, the Center for Democracy and Technology said.

• The non-Internet that never was but might be

  The Internet as we know it might never have happened if the Comite Consultatif International Telephonique et Telegraphique (CCITT) had not turned down the offer of TCP/IP from Vint Cerf and other Internet pioneers about 35 years ago.

• Mobilarm sees removal of hurdle to global growth

  Marine safety company Mobilarm (ASX:MBO) expects a recent ITU decision to lead to the removal of the regulatory hurdles preventing sales of its device in many global markets

• Time waits for no one: 'leap seconds' may be cut

  Sparking a fresh round of debate over an ongoing issue in time-keeping circles, the International Telecommunications Union is considering eliminating leap seconds from the time scale used by most computer systems, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

• ITU approves G.hn for home networking

  The International Telecommunication Union on Friday gave final approval to G.hn, a standard for high-speed home networking that spans coaxial cable, electrical wiring and phone lines.