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Deutsche Telekom Suspected of Privacy Breaches

Security staff at telecoms giant Deutsche Telekom are suspected of breaching German data privacy laws during a secret attempt to identify the sources of high-level leaks to the media, the company said Saturday, May 24.

Using the company’s own records of millions of numbers dialed, the dates and the durations, the internal-security unit had hunted for possible matches between news reporters and Telekom directors.

Both public prosecutors and a German law firm have been assigned to investigate the suspected breach three years ago of German data-retention laws. Bonn-based Telekom said it had purged the security department last year to ensure it operated within the law.

Malo su se igrali "pokvarenog" telefona… hm… ili pokvarenog telekoma. A nema veze… ma to se djeca igrala sa žicama, nisu oni takvi… da, malo je čudno kad ti stalno cure neke informacije po kojekakvim medijima (ili blogovima) pa se čovjek zapita… a odakle sad pa to već negdje vani… I onda lijepo usporediš odlazne mailove i … eh… No da se ne zaletite pa ne pomislite koji su to luđaci slali informacije sa službenog maila ili telefonirali sa svog telefona novinarima, ne radi se o takvom curenju informacija nego o onom drugom, curenju u razgovorima što oni koji izbrbljaju niti ne doživljavaju kao curenje nego kao… eto… čakulanje sa novinarima pa zato niti ne paze ko neki špajuni i slično.

Ali glavno da je Rene iznenađen i uvrijeđen… :-))

“I am shocked about these accusations,” Deutsche Telekom Chief Executive Officer Rene Obermann said in the statement. “We take this issue very seriously and will cooperate with the prosecutors” in determining who was responsible.

Omaklo im se i u Mađarskoj… malo… nij eništ’ strašno…

Magyar Telekom says probe found wrongdoing
BUDAPEST, May 21 (Reuters) – Hungarian telecommunications firm Magyar Telekom MTEL.BU said an ongoing probe has found evidence of wrongdoing at its Macedonian subsidiary in the case of 6 contracts worth over 6.7 million euros ($10.49 million).

"There is affirmative evidence of illegitimacy in the formation and/or performance of six contracts for advisory, marketing, acquisition due-diligence and/or lobbying services in Macedonia, entered into in 2004-06…" it said citing a report from the law firm conducting the investigation.

Milijunček sim, milijunček tam… pa kaj je to, nije ni za kavicu (plantažicu kavice) platiti nekome. Bezveze, pih, što ih rešetaju ko da su neprijatelji. A kako se jadni ne bi "pomagali" sa poklončićima i financirali jadne i siromašne političare posebno one koji sjede po kojekakvim agencijama za zaštitu tržišnog natjecanja kad im ovi stalno nešto prigovaraju. Te da su monopolisti, te da kupovinom svega što liči na telekom stvaraju monopol… mislim prestrašno što ti agenti u agencijama mogu izmisliti, a DT se samo bori da potroši sve kredite kojima ga šopaju banke i… širi se…

Deutsche Telekom starts talks with Macedonian competition authorities
Deutsche Telekom representatives met on 19 May with the competition regulator in Macedonia, which will determine whether the German company’s deal with Greek operator OTE will create a monopoly in Macedonia. In Macedonia, Deutsche Telecom owns incumbent operator Makedonski Telekom, while OTE owns the second mobile operator Cosmofon. The two companies hold more than 90 percent of the mobile telephony market in Macedonia, while the rest is held by the third mobile operator VIP. In the eyes of the law, a company has a dominant position if it holds more than 40 percent of a relevant market in Macedonia, while two or more companies are dominant if they hold more than 60 percent of the market. If a company holds more than 40 percent of the market through mergers or acquisitions, it must notify the Commission for the Protection of Competition.

Swedish military concerned over foreign bidders for TeliaSonera
Sweden’s armed forces have expressed concern that any sale of TeliaSonera to a foreign buyer could threaten national security. The Swedish government has put its 37 percent stake in the national carrier on a list of proposed divestments, while the operator has also been subject to rumours of a possible bid from France Telecom. The military uses TeliaSonera’s network and whoever controls the operator could access secret locations of military hardware and listen to or hijack internal communications. "Any owner, domestic or foreign, of TeliaSonera must be thoroughly investigated from a security point of view. An owner that is not trustworthy could use its knowledge to damage Sweden," Per Nilsson, head of the armed forces command, control and communications division, told the Financial Times. Bankers close to the TeliaSonera deal believe other possible bidders could include Deutsche Telekom, Chinese telecoms operators and Chinese or Middle East sovereign wealth funds. Mats Odell, the minister in charge of the privatisation, said the government has been assessing security related questions since last year but has asked the military for an additional report by mid-June because "we didn’t get all the answers". He said the government wanted the report to address topics such as TeliaSonera’s ownership structure, the possible security implications of the sale and the costs of any changes.

A evo kako se to radi u Sloveniji i kako se konkurenciji daje prostora da diše, a ne ko kod nas…
Telekom Slovenije receives lawsuit from Amis TelekomSlovenian operator Telekom Slovenije has received a lawsuit from Amis Telekom claiming damages of EUR 56.825 million for the incumbent’s alleged abuse of its dominant market position. The allegations centre on the inter-operator broadband access market, unbundled local loop and sub-loop access market, fiber-optics connections to collocations and price cuts. Telekom Slovenije will respond to the lawsuit in the legally required time, and estimates that the lawsuit is completely groundless.

 Bilo bi jako interesantno izračunati kolika svota bi to bila u Hrvatskoj… jaaaaako interesantno, naravno, ako nekog uopće libo patka za to što se dešava.

Anyway, prvi dan nakon odmora i eto što se kotrlja po novinama cijeli tjedan dok ja gledam kišu ne ignoriram internet… svašta. :-)