Source: Peter Micek
The chickens are coming home to roost. Lars Nyberg resigned yesterday as CEO of TeliaSonera, the Sweden-based global telecommunications company, in the wake of an investigation into a 3G licensing deal in Uzbekistan.
Tag Archives: Telecom
TeliaSonera’s Uzbekistan scandal is a warning to telecom CEOs everywhere
February 3, 2013 – 12:42 pm
Compromise emerges in global talks on Internet oversight
December 11, 2012 – 4:05 am
Source: Matt Smith and Joseph Menn, Reuters
Hopes rose on Tuesday for a compromise agreement that would keep intrusive government regulation of the Internet from being enshrined in a global treaty.
Who controls the internet?
October 17, 2012 – 12:13 pm
Source: Jemima Kiss, The Guardian
Have you ever noticed that wherever you are in the world, every telephone keypad looks the same? Or wondered why satellites don’t crash into each other?
New ITU Resource Center
September 14, 2012 – 6:17 am
Source: Centre for Democracy and Technology
New International Telecommunication Union Resource Center put together by the Centre for Democracy and Technology.
Privatizing the ITU-T: Back to the future
August 16, 2012 – 5:35 am
Source: Anthony Rutkowski, CircleID
The awkwardly named International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) by any measure is a highly unusual body.
Indian government may earn over Rs. 1 trillion from telco
July 4, 2012 – 4:19 am
Source: Shauvik Ghosh, livemint.com
The government could make more than Rs. 1 trillion if the proposal to charge the country’s incumbent telecom service providers a one-time fee for the spectrum they have is accepted by the cabinet.
The unwritten rules in Chinese technology
June 17, 2012 – 10:26 am
Source: Evan Osnos, The New Yorker
What do we mean when we say a Chinese company has “close ties to the government”? Or is “connected to the military”? And does this matter?
Threat analysis of World Conference on International Telecommunications
June 9, 2012 – 7:54 am
Source: Milton Mueller, Internet Governance Project
This review confirms that the most important potential effects of the ITRs on the Internet would come from the ITRs’ attempt to change international Internet connectivity arrangements in fixed networks.
NSA Director Keith Alexander: FBI does the domestic collection
March 21, 2012 – 6:07 pm
Source: empty wheel
Congressman Hank Johnson asked NSA Director Keith Alexander about James Bamford’s Wired article describing the data storage and analysis center in UT.
Secret U.S. memo reveals which telecoms store data the longest
September 28, 2011 – 9:59 pm
Source: Wired
The nation’s major mobile-phone providers are keeping a treasure trove of sensitive data on their customers, according to newly-released Justice Department internal memo that for the first time reveals the data retention policies of America’s largest telecoms.
