# ITU

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/itu/  
**Website:** https://www.itu.int/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies, headquartered in Geneva and made up of 194 Member States plus roughly 1,000 sector members. It sits at the top of the global telecom value chain rather than inside it: ITU-R allocates the global radio spectrum and manages the master international frequency register and satellite filings, ITU-T publishes the Recommendations that define interoperable telecom networks, and ITU-D collects and publishes the world's reference ICT statistics. Its market is Global by treaty. Its API posture is genuinely open but entirely undeclared: ITU operates real, anonymously callable HTTP APIs behind the DataHub statistics portal and behind an ITU-D "Proximity to Fibre Node" demonstration built on the ITU Broadband Maps, and neither requires a key, a login, or a partner agreement — but there is no developer portal, no api.itu.int, no published OpenAPI, no SDK, no terms of programmatic use, and the official ITU GitHub organization has zero public repositories. ITU is not a CAMARA participant and not a GSMA Open Gateway operator; network APIs are being standardised outside the UN system, and ITU's role in that layer is limited to the IMT requirements framework rather than any callable interface.

## Kin Score — 37.7 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 37.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 87.0 |
| Contract Quality | 57.1 |
| Governance | 16.7 |
| Contract Governance | 16.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 30.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

Regulatory layer — **Telecommunications**: 43.1 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 40.0 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | yes |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## APIs (2)

- **ITU DataHub API** — The undocumented JSON API that serves the ITU DataHub (datahub.itu.int), ITU's official ICT statistics portal and the successor to ICT Eye. Confirmed anonymously callable on 202...
- **ITU Proximity to Fibre Node API** — An ITU-D Technology and Network Development API that scores a batch of coordinates against the ITU Interactive Transmission Map (Broadband Maps) fibre network data. Two routes a...

## MCP servers (1)

- **ITU MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Itu Agentic Access** — 20 operations · 2 acting

## Security (2)

- **Itu Authentication** — none/apiKey · 2 schemes
- **Itu Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Tags

Telecommunications, Global, Regulator, Standards, Spectrum, Satellite, Broadband, ICT Statistics, Open Data, United Nations

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/itu/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.