East Africa: The Global Treaty Behind Your Mobile Communications Celebrates Its 110th Anniversary

13 December 2016

ITU paid tribute today to 110 years of international cooperation among its members states on the ITU Radio Regulations, an international treaty for governing the use of the radio-frequency spectrum and satellite orbits for ubiquitous wireless communications.

The ITU Radio Regulations ensure interference-free operations of radiocommunication systems and provide all countries with equitable access to the radio spectrum - a scarce natural resource that does not distinguish between national borders and needs to be harmonized globally.

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