Thursday 26 March 2020

ITU creates best practice sharing tool as worldwide networks hold strong

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), has created a new mechanism to educate authorities on how to improve network resilience and maintain performance during this difficult period.

The new platform will aim to share best practices and initiatives to improve the performance of networks as traffic increases due to increased number of home workers and children staying home from work. This is an opportunity for authorities to learn from what is being done elsewhere from emergency spectrum reassignments to guidelines for consumers on responsible use.

“The platform ITU is launching today aims to assist national policy makers, regulators and industry stakeholders to ensure that networks are kept resilient and telecommunication services are available to all to the maximum extent possible by sharing best practices and initiatives put in place during the how hard is computer science” said ITU Secretary-General Houlin Zhao.

“It will collect relevant and trustworthy information and expertise on actions that telecommunication policy makers, regulators and others in the regulatory community can use to ensure that their telecommunication networks and services serve the needs of their country.”

Prior to this announcement, the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) set up a very similar mechanism for members of the European Union. This announcement coincided with calls for Netflix to downgrade performance from High-definition (HD) to Standard-definition (SD) to ease congestion on the networks as more consumers search for entertainment during the lockdown.

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