25th suicide at France Telecom
A France Telecom employee hanged himself on Thursday, becoming the 25th staff member at the former state monopoly — which has been undergoing major restructuring — to commit suicide in the past 20 months. Many of them have left notes blaming management decisions for stress at work. Duration: 00:39
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Telecommunications Action Group
Telecommunications Action Group co-founder Alastair Otter talks to SABC3 News at 10. www.tag.org.za
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Telecoms industry with Spiwe Chireka from frost & Sullivan
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Spiwe Chireka, ICT analyst at frost & sullivan is on the line to discuss the telecoms industry with us.
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Democrats approve Illegal spy bill, Telecom Immunity (FISA)
House Democratic leadership (which is to say, Congressman Steny Hoyer) announced a “breakthrough” in discussions with the White House and the Republicans which would produce a “compromise” in the long fight over the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. I have taken several days to look over the legislation and have some comments.
First, the debate over FISA is of vital significance to our country. The issues are simple. They go to protection of our democracy, now under unrelenting attack by the Bush Administration. Repeatedly, official spokesmen for the administration have mischaracterized the FISA statute, misstated the import of their own proposals, and have used fear as a tool to try to ram through ill-considered legislation that would undermine one of the fundamental principles of the American republic: the notion that the Government’s intrusion into the private dealings of its citizens can occur only after a check through the judicial branch.
The debate raises many other issues. One of the most significant of them is the idea of immunity for telecommunications companies. The evidence at hand now shows that telecommunications companies facilitated criminal surveillance of their customers (i.e., surveillance that violated the limitations of FISA, and was therefore felonious) at the request of the Bush Administration’s rogue Justice Department and National Security Administration. The telecoms have spared no expense lobbying in their effort to get out from under the liability that this presents. Their efforts are plainly paying off.
In a sense, the entire experience with the FISA legislation works to demonstrate the darkest fears that James Madison articulated about war and fear-mongering and their ability to undermine the essential checks-and-balances of the United States Constitution. In 1798, at the height of the Quasi-War with France, which was shamelessly manipulated by the Federalists for partisan purposes, Madison wrote to Jefferson:
The management of foreign relations appears to be the most susceptible of abuse, of all the trusts committed to a Government, because they can be concealed or disclosed, or disclosed in such parts & at such times as will best suit particular views; and because the body of the people are less capable of judging & are more under the influence of prejudices, on that branch of their affairs, than of any other. Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions agst. danger real or pretended from abroad.
In a like manner, the Bush Administration’s “war on terror” has provided a pretext to transform the American republic into a new form of state. In place of the Founders’ carefully counterposed checks and balances, the Bush Administration offered a new, unfettered executive capable of unilateral action even when encroaching upon the hitherto guarded rights of the citizens. The Bush Administration’s concept was of a National Surveillance State, in which a supposedly benevolent and protecting executive would move towards omniscience through the marvels of new and intrusive technologies.
But the Bush Administration’s secret constitution has another, potentially more worrisome aspect. It presented the president as ultimate interpreter—not guarantor—of the law. As the Stuart monarch who spawned the English Civil War, Charles I, said “rex est lex” (the king and the law are one), so President Bush and his followers enact Richard Nixon’s famous statement, “when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.”
http://harpers.org/archive/2008/06/hbc-90003151
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joelnacalabs telecoms
nacalabshttp://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/nacalabsTravelVideo, 0020joelnacalabs telecoms
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Free Telecoms Course:Introduction by Mark Gilliland
Telecoms training from Technology Training Limited – introduction to course by CTO, Mark Gilliland
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CEE Telecoms 2008 in Bucharest /31.01.2008
5th Annual Conference on Central and Eastern European Telecoms
Bucharest, January 31st – February 1st 2008
Interview with Dr. Karim Taga, Managing Director, Arthur D. Little Austria
At the 2008 CEE Telecom conference in Bucharest Dr. Karim Taga, Managing Director of Arthur D. Little Austria explains why exciting developments in Romania should pull key investors eastwards.
Dr. Karim Taga is Managing Director in the Vienna office of Arthur D. Little’s German, Austrian and CEE operations. He specializes in telecommunications and he is a member of the TIME (Telecommunications, Information Technology, Media and Electronics) practice. Besides he is leading the TIME practice in Austria. Karim Taga received a Master of Science Degree in 1989 from the Ecole Supérieure de l’Energie et des Matériaux, Orléans France with a master thesis accomplishment at the University of California Berkeley. After his studies he worked as a research assistant at the Vienna University of Technology where he developed an infrared bre optical sensor. He received his Ph.D. in 1992 followed by an MBA in International Business from the Webster University St Louis Mi in 1993. Karim Taga is uent in French and Arabic (mother tongue), English and German.
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Direct Response Telecoms Case Studies and References
Case Studies and testimonials of Direct Response’s telecoms products and services
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Special Comment “Bush Put Telecoms Ahead of Citizens” Jan 31
Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann Special Comment: In a Presidency of hypocrisy; an Administration of exploitation; a labyrinth of leadership, in which every vital fact is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma hidden under a claim of executive privilege supervised by an idiot, this one, is surprisingly easy.
President Bush has put protecting the Telecom giants from the laws ahead of protecting you from the terrorists.
He has demanded an extension of the FYCA law, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, but only an extension that includes retroactive immunity for the Telecoms who helped him spy on you.
Congress has given him, and he has signed, a 15-day extension, which simply kicks the time bomb down the field, and has changed nothing of his insipid rhetoric, in which he portrays the Democrats as ’soft on terror’ and getting in the way of his Superhuman efforts to protect the nation when, in fact and with bitter irony, if anybody is ’soft on terror’ here it is Mr. Bush.
In the State of the Union Address, Sir, you told Congress, “if you do not act by Friday, our ability to track terrorist threats would be weakened and our citizens will be in greater danger.”
Yet you are willing to weaken that ability!
You will subject us, your citizens, to that greater danger.
This, Mr. Bush, is simple enough even for you to understand: If Congress approves a new FYCA act without telecom immunity and sends it to your desk and you veto it, you, by your own terms and your own definitions, you will have just sided with the terrorists.
You got to have this law, or we’re all going to die. But you might veto this law!
It’s bad enough, Sir, that you are demanding an ex post facto law which would clear the phone giants from responsibility for their systematic, aggressive, and blatant collaboration with your illegal and unjustified spying on Americans, under the flimsy guise of looking for any terrorists stupid enough to make a collect call or send a mass e-mail.
But when you then demanded again, during the State of the Union address, that Congress retroactively clear the Verizons and the AT&T’s, you wouldn’t even confirm that they actually did anything for which they deserved to be cleared!
“The Congress must pass liability protection for companies believed to have assisted in the efforts to defend America.”
Believed?
Don’t you know?
Does the endless hair-splitting of your presidential fine print, extend even here?
If you, Sir, are asking Congress, and us, to join you in this shameless, breathless, literal, textbook example of fascism; the merged efforts of government and corporations who answer to no government, you still don’t have the guts to even say the telecom companies did assist you, in your efforts?
Will you and the equivocators who surround you like a cocoon never go on the record about anything?
Even the stuff you claim to believe in?
Silly me.
Of course Mr. Bush is going to say “believed.”
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