ABSTRACT
Twenty-fifteen marked the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the creation of the ITU. The ITU is the UN specialized agency in charge of telecommunications and Information Communication Technology (ICT), and is currently comprised of 193 Member States as well as over 800 Sector Members, Associates, and Academia Members from the telecommunication and ICT sectors.1 Following review by the Member States in 1989, versions of the CS and CV
Regulations, and amended by subsequent plenipotentiary conferences, these three instruments currently comprise the entire ITU regulatory regime.2 The RR are also a binding international treaty according to Article 31 of the CS. The primary purposes of the ITU are to promote cooperation and participation in the development of telecommunication services and associated technologies to bring their benefits to people worldwide.3 Along with allocation of spectrum and allotment of frequencies and orbital postions, the objectives of the organization are to harmonize and standardize telecommunications practices and eliminate harmful interference with those activities.4
