Internet Global Growth: Lessons for the Future

Citation
Michael Kende, Internet Global Growth: Lessons for the Future (Sept. 2012) (full-text).

Overview
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) will hold a treaty conference, the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT), in December 2012, which will revise a 1988 treaty, the International Telecommunication Regulations (ITR). The ITR treaty established how operators compensate each other for terminating international voice calls through the payment of settlements. This paper demonstrates that adapting the ITR treaty to the Internet is not only unnecessary, but could harm the growth of the Internet in developing countries.