• WORLD RADIOCOMMUNICATION CONFERENCE 2003

• Global needs, Global solutions
  Convened every three to four years, world radiocommunication conferences play a vital role in updating frequency allocations and establishing the global technical, operational and regulatory guidelines for the use of frequency spectrum and satellite orbits. WRC-03 took a number of landmark decisions to deal with the increasing pressure placed on the radio-frequency spectrum — a limited natural resource belonging to all of humanity

• Conference structure

• RADIOCOMMUNICATION ASSEMBLY

• Assembly spells out future direction of ITU-R

• ITU–R structure

• THIRD-GENERATION MOBILE: A STATUS REPORT
• Evolution of wireless technologies

• 3G licensing

• 3G network deployment

• ITU TELECOM 2004

• Forum: Call for abstracts

• STANDARDIZATION 
  IN E-HEALTH
• A new framework for coordination is defined

• ICT SUCCESS STORIES

• E-Government
  From the United States to Cape Verde, governments around the world have embraced information and communication technologies, specifically the Internet, as a means to streamline public sector processes, while providing citizens with easier access to government services

• ITU establishes ICT Centre in Japan

• Waseda University to support ITU standardization and development initiatives

• OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

• DIARY

RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS
Global needs,
Global solutions
Third-Generation Mobile:
A Status Report
Standardization
in E-Health

No. 6
JULY-AUGUST 2003

Cover photos: 
EyeWire, PhotoDisc, Philips, Siemens AG, 
Alain de Ferron