A contentious and controversial United Nations telecom summit, the World Conference on International Telecommunications 2012 (WCIT-12), which took place in Dubai over the past two weeks, concluded on Thursday evening with a new series of agreements on the Internet, signed by 89 nations, but which the U.S. and some 54 other countries declined to sign (refused or deferred to consult with their governments, according to DotNxt).
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