The making of global telecommunications policy (with Grace Koh and Tricia Paoletta, Part I)

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What rules govern how telecommunications standards work across countries? How do governments manage the process to ensure national standards are compatible? On this episode, Shane speaks with Grace Koh , the US Ambassador to the International Telecommunications Unions’ World Telecommunications Conference, and Tricia Paoletta , a telecommunications lawyer and spectrum policy expert, on the international politics of telecommunications. In the first half of a two-part discussion, they cover the structure and purpose of major international telecommunications bodies. You can listen to Part 2 here . Download this episode’s transcript here.

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