Next Monday will begin the Plenipotentiary Conference to elect new leaders of the ITU for the period 2023-2027. A representative of the United States, Doreen Bogdan-Martin, and a Russian, Rashid Ismailov, will compete for the position of Secretary General, in a competition marked by geopolitical fights. The directors of the three ITU bureaus - Development, Standardization and Radiocommunications - will also be elected.

The Plenipotentiary Conference, PP 22, the main governing body of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), will begin this Monday, October 26. The meeting will be held in Bucharest, Romania, and will last until October 14. The next plenipotentiary conference will be held in 2026.

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The PP-22 to elect new ITU leaders begins

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Padtec returns to submarine business with integration model focused on Latin America

ISPs concerned about spread of infected devices and impact on home networks

These affected devices consume capacity on residential connections, generate anomalous traffic, participate in attacks and can turn a subscriber’s IP address into a node in a residential proxy infrastructure.

“Analyzing submarine and terrestrial networks as isolated infrastructure no longer makes sense”: V.tal’s experience

Lucas Aliberti, CCO of V.tal, explained in an interview with Convergencialatina the strategy of Brazil’s neutral digital infrastructure giant. He said network integration is a key value today and that, in 5G, “the further it advances, the more important fiber becomes.”

The impact of hyperscalers’ dominance on submarine cable construction

Cirion: Latin America’s connectivity demand shifts toward 400G and 800G capacities

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