It has been a tough week in the global telecommunications sector as the battle lines over control of the internet were drawn. In the World Conference on International Telecommunications going on in Dubai, the debate over whether to change the current internet model has been going on, and will continue until next week. This concerns issues of who should govern the internet, to what extent it should be governed, privacy online, who should pay for content and who to be paid for internet usage among other contentious issues. This has been seen as a fight between the West and East...
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