ITU (International Telecommunications

Union)

 1865 International Body was set up which later known as

the International Telecommunications Unions]

 ITU achieved the status of ‘specialised agency’ of the

United Nations. As the Oldest member in this group.

 ITU get involved in establishing a regulatory framework

that would integrate satellite communications in the
existing system. The foundations for this integration were
laid during the 1973 Conference of Malaga-Torremolinos,
where the International Telecommunications Convention
was signed on 25 October of that year, in later on replaced
by the ITU Convention of Nairobi, which was signed in that
city in 1982.

 ITU aims and purposes are:

• To maintain and extend international cooperation for

the improvement and rational use of
telecommunications of all kinds

• To promote the development of technical facillities

and their most efficient operation, with a view to
improving the efficiency of telecommunications
services, increasing their usefulness and making
them, as far as possible, generally available to the
public.

• To harmonise the actions of nations in the attainment

of these ends
 ITU memberships is open to all countries. In the present,
there are 172 member States. ITU itself has four
permanent organs:

• The General Secretariat

• The International Frequency Registration Board

• The International Radio Consultative Committee

• The International Telegraph and Telephone

Consultative Committee