The new Constitution of the International Telecommunication Union (Geneva, 1992) cites the following purposes for the union:
- to maintain and extend international cooperation between all members of the union for the improvement and rational use of telecommunications of all kinds;
- to promote and to offer technical assistance to developing countries in the field of telecommunications;
- to promote the development of technical facilities and their efficient operation;
- to promote the extension of the benefits of the new telecommunication technologies to all the world's inhabitants;
- to harmonize the actions of members in the attainment of these ends;
- to promote, at the international level, the adoption of a broader approach to telecommunications issues, an approach that includes other world and regional organizations and nongovernmental organizations concerned with telecommunications.