The third World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC-02) took place in Istanbul (Turkey) from 18 to 27 March 2002. The Final Report contains the Istanbul Declaration, the Strategic Plan of the Telecommunications Development Sector, the Istanbul Action Plan (ISAP) focusing on the programmes, activities, special initiatives, resolutions approved and recommendations made by the conference directed towards the purposes and objectives of the ITU Telecommunications Development Sector for the four-year period 2003-2006, and the detailed programme of the conference as well as miscellaneous appendices containing the speeches, the abbreviations and acronyms, the list of documents submitted to the conference and the list of participants.