The World Administrative Radio Conference (WARC) was a technical conference of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) where delegates from member nations of the ITU met to revise or amend the entire international Radio Regulations

Radio Regulations

The Radio Regulations is an intergovernmental treaty text of the International Telecommunication Union , the Geneva-based specialised agency of the United Nations which coordinates and standardises the operation of telecommunication networks and services and advances the development of...

 pertaining to all telecommunication services throughout the world. The conference was held in Geneva, Switzerland, with preparatory conferences held in Panama City, Panama.

In 1992 at a Additional Plenipotentiary Conference in Geneva the ITU was restructured and as a result from 1993 the conference became known as the World Radiocommunication Conference

World Radiocommunication Conference

World Radiocommunication Conference is organized by ITU to review, and, as necessary, revise the Radio Regulations, the international treaty governing the use of the radio-frequency spectrum and the geostationary-satellite and non-geostationary-satellite orbits. It is held every three to four years...

 or WRC.

Conferences list

• ITU Preparatory to World Administrative Radio Conference Panama 1979
• ITU World Administrative Radio Conference Geneva 1979 (WARC-79)
• ITU World Administrative Radio Conference Geneva 1984 (WARC-84)
• ITU World Administrative Radio Conference Geneva 1992 (WARC-92)

See also

• Amateur radio
  Amateur radio
  Amateur radio is the use of designated radio frequency spectrum for purposes of private recreation, non-commercial exchange of messages, wireless experimentation, self-training, and emergency communication...
  
  
• Radio
  Radio
  Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
  
  
• Telecommunications
• World Radiocommunication Conference
  World Radiocommunication Conference
  World Radiocommunication Conference is organized by ITU to review, and, as necessary, revise the Radio Regulations, the international treaty governing the use of the radio-frequency spectrum and the geostationary-satellite and non-geostationary-satellite orbits. It is held every three to four years...