<p>WCIT has nothing to do with expanding ITU's mandate on the internet. Any proposal in this sense is stillborn. </p>
<p>This OpEd adds zero to the ITRs debate. This is the kind of American strategy that is killing the conference. </p>
<p>The real topics are international connectivity, accounting rules, finances. Brazilian proposals, for instance, are focused on increasing transparency and lowering international roaming rates (topics that many, including US, don't agree to negotiate either).</p>
<p>The only thing I agree in the text is that civil society is kept unfairly out the debate. Were SC in, there wouldn't be so many nonsense rumors like this. </p>
<p>Abraços,<br>
Sérgio Alves Jr</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">Em 25/05/2012 09:16, "Adam Peake" <<a href="mailto:ajp@glocom.ac.jp">ajp@glocom.ac.jp</a>> escreveu:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hamadoun Toure, May 1 speaking about WCIT:<br>
"There are many important issues that may be addressed at WCIT, but I would like to focus on one broader issue in particular: how do we ensure sufficient investment in broadband network infrastructure?"<br>
and<br>
"And, the current ITRs are not properly equipped to deal with this challenge either, which raises the question of how all this new infrastructure will be paid for?"<br>
and<br>
"Everyone wants mobile broadband and the benefits it will bring. But few seem willing to pay for it -- including both the over-the-top players, who are generating vast new demand through their applications, and consumers, who have become accustomed to unlimited packages."<br>
<<a href="http://www.itu.int/en/osg/speeches/Pages/2012-05-01.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.itu.int/en/osg/<u></u>speeches/Pages/2012-05-01.aspx</a><u></u>><br>
<br>
Hello Google, enter Vint :-)<br>
<br>
Adam<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Dear friends and colleagues,<br>
<br>
I thought you would appreciate knowing that an OpEd by Vint Cerf as<br>
above titled was printed today in the New York Times (and I believe<br>
the IHT).<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/25/opinion/keep-the-internet-open.html?_r=1" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/<u></u>05/25/opinion/keep-the-<u></u>internet-open.html?_r=1</a><br>
<br>
--<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Nick Ashton-Hart<br>
Geneva Representative<br>
Computer & Communications Industry Association<br>
Tel: <a href="tel:%2B41%20%2822%29%20362%2002%2038" value="+41223620238" target="_blank">+41 (22) 362 02 38</a><br>
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Sent from my iPad, please excuse typos<br>
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