The ITU Radiocommunication Assembly considering a) that in telecommunications data transmission is more and more widely used; b) that the ISO/IEC (International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission) Joint Technical Committee for information technology (JTC 1) is concerned with international standardisation in the field of data processing; c) that IEC Technical Committee No. 25 is standardizing letter symbols for terms and units used in data communication; d) that ITU-R texts and documents sometimes contain equivalent designations of the baud or its multiples, for example the megasymbol per second and its symbol MSPS.