Telecommunications surround us everywhere we go. Besides radio, we have satellite radio, the Internet, cell phones at every turn. We rarely understand just how important telecommunications are in our daily lives. Our lives in fact depend on telecommunications in ways that we can't even understand. The organization that is in charge of standardizing and regulation telecommunications throughout the world is the International Telecommunications Union.

First established in 1865 as the International Telegraph Union. Among the tasks that are assigned to the International Telecommunications Union include the allocation of the radio spectrum as well as making arrangements between countries for making international phone calls. They also provide international standards, referred to as Recommendations (with a capital R) for the development of new telecommunications technologies.

As you can well imagine, the International Telecommunications Union also has work involving videoconferencing technologies. This is something that definitely could not be imagined back in its earliest years as the International Telegraph Union. However this new technology stands at the forefront of telecommunications today and in fact videocommunications promises to be the future of international communications. Perhaps one day it will be known as the International Videocommunications Union rather than the International Telecommunications Union.

Although the work of the International Telecommunications Union is very important in all of its roles, it is very difficult for us to feel its direct effects. After all it is mainly an advisory style institution, although it certainly has more direct aspects. For those of us who seek to use videoconferencing for online dating and online matchmaking, the direct effects of the work of the International Telecommunications Union are hard to notice.

If you are interested in learning more about the International Telecommunications Union, however, you might be interested in checking out their web site. It can be found at www.itu.int There is some very interesting information on some of their discussions of videoconferencing technology as well as their videoconferencing initiative which seeks to make videoconferencing technology faster, more powerful, easier to use and of course more affordable.

Videoconferencing is already far more affordable than it was even ten years ago. Many are the online dating web sites who utilize the newest in videoconferencing technologies and provide their services at exceedingly reasonable costs. At times you can even find these services offered for free! That is definitely an amazing development in the world of videoconferencing technology.

If you are wondering what are some of the web sites that online daters and online matchmakers traditionally use, there are several. One of the more popular web sites is CU World, which is an organization that allows for real time public video chat. While online dating is not the only goal of this web site, it is definitely one of the driving forces. Other web sites would include, but are not limited to, CupidCams and Loveline Personals which are more traditional online dating web sites with the added bonus of videoconferencing technology.