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The ITU World Telecommunication Policy Forum (WTPF) was
established by Resolution 2 of the Plenipotentiary Conference (Kyoto, 1994). Its purpose
is to provide a forum where ITU Member States and Sector Members can discuss and exchange
views and information on emerging telecommunication policy and regulatory matters arising
from the changing telecommunication environment. Two years
after that decision, the first WTPF was held on the subject of Global
Mobile Personal Communications by Satellite (GMPCS). The second WTPF
was
held in 1998, on Trade in Telecommunication Services, and most recently,
the third was held in 2001, on Internet Protocol (IP) Telephony.
Although the WTPF shall not produce
prescriptive regulatory outcomes or outputs with binding force, it shall prepare reports
and, where appropriate, opinions for consideration by Members and relevant ITU meetings.
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Resolution 2 (Marrakesh 2002) Following the decision by the
Marrakesh Plenipotentiary 2002, there is no funding available for WTPF in
the period from 2004-07.
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WTPF 2001:
Internet Protocol (IP)
Telephony
In its 2000 session, the ITU
Council, decided to convene the third World
Telecommunication Policy Forum (WTPF) in Geneva, from 7-9
March 2001 on the theme of Internet Protocol (IP)
Telephony. In conjunction with the WTPF '01, a
special day-long Information
Session on IP Telephony was held on 6th March.
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WTPF '98: Trade in
Telecommunication Services
The WTPF '98 theme — trade
in telecommunications — concerned the application, to the
telecommunication sector, trade principles including non-discriminatory
market access, fair and effective competition, and transparency in
establishing rates and regulations.
This second ITU World Telecommunication Policy Forum (WTPF) invited the
Director of TSB, in consultation with the Chairman of Study Group 3, to
establish a Focus Group as described in Resolution 23 of WTSC-96 in order
to accelerate the work of Study Group 3 on accounting
rate reform. The objective of the Focus Group was to propose
"transitional arrangements towards cost-orientation beyond 1998,
including ranges of indicative target rates".
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WTPF '96: Global Mobile Personal
Communications by Satellite
The ITU's first World Telecommunication Policy Forum considered a
common set of policy and regulatory issues raised by the following kinds
of satellite systems:
- existing and planned global and regional satellite systems providing
mobile personal communications voice and low-speed data services and
operating in the geostationary orbit (GEO MSS);
- existing and planned satellite systems operating in non-geostationary
orbits and providing mobile narrow-band services, excluding voice, on
a global or regional basis (i.e. " Little LEOs" or
"Little" NGEO MSS);
- satellite systems planned to come into operation in the next two to
five years in order to offer narrowband mobile services, including
voice and relatively low-speed data, on a global or regional basis and
to operate in non-geostationary orbits – including Low Earth Orbits
(LEOs), Medium Earth Orbits (MEOs), and Highly Inclined Elliptical
Orbits (HEOs) – (i.e. NGEO MSS);
- satellite systems planned to come into operation in the next five to
ten years in order to offer fixed and transportable, multimedia
broadband services on a global or regional basis and to operate either
in geostationary or non-geostationary orbits (GEO and NGEO FSS).
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