Chapter Two THE ITU AND THE ALLOCATION OF THE RADIO FREQUENCY SPECTRUM 2.1 Essential Powers of the ITU The several International Telecommunication Conventions have given to the ITU powers relating to the allocation of radio frequencies. Thus, the International Telecommunication Convention signed at Montreux on November 12, 1965 provided in Article 4.2. that a purpose of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) would be to: (a) effect allocation of the radio frequency spectrum and registration of radio frequency assignments in order to avoid harmful interference between radio stations of different countries; and, (b) coordinate efforts to eliminate harmful interference between radio stations of different countries and to improve the use made of the radio frequency spectrum . . . The ITU is now governed by the new Telecommunication Convention and Final Protocol signed at Malaga-Torremolinos on October 25, 1973. Pursuant to the 1973 convention the ITU became critically involved in the use of the geostationary orbit by space objects Article 4 identified in language identical to that appearing above a major purpose of the Union. TIAS 8572. It entered into force for the United States on April 7, 1976. Both conventions must be taken into account in an analysis of telecommunications law and practice. Although the United States is bound by the 1973 Convention to the extent that other States have not accepted it, but are parties to the 1965 Convention, they remain bound under its terms in their relations with the United States.
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