News Update: IBM Inks Five-Year, Multi-Million Deal with Indian Telecom Tower Firm
IBM Inc. (IBM) has signed a five year, multi-million dollar outsourcing deal with Indian telecommunications tower firm Quippo-WTTIL, Reuters reported. IBM will provide technical support to overhaul the tower firm’s IT infrastructure, the report said.
IBM shares are up $0.03, or 0.02%, to $130.41
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BT Takes a hike!Indian telecom firms can go global: Modi
BK Modi, chairman, Spice Group, spoke to UTVi on the way forward for Indian telecom companies in light of the proposed Bharti MTN deal
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News Update: Verizon makes statement on FCC vote on broadband inquiry
The Federal Communications Commission approved a Notice of Inquiry by a 3-2 vote to begin public consideration of possible legal frameworks for commission action on broadband Internet services. The following is a statement by Tom Tauke, Verizon executive vice president for public affairs, policy and communications: “Reclassifying high-speed broadband Internet service as a telecom service is a terrible idea. The negative consequences for online users and the Internet ecosystem would be severe and have ramifications for decades. It is difficult to understand why the FCC continues to consider this option. Rather than attempting to make the new world of broadband fit into the regulatory scheme of the old telephone world, the FCC should acknowledge that this is an issue Congress should address. Nearly 300 members of Congress have signed letters to the FCC, warning against reclassification and expressing support for congressional action. We will continue to work with the Congress, the FCC and other interested parties to resolve these issues in a manner that encourages investment, innovation, jobs and the best possible online experience for users.”
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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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http://rayt02.bebo.com telecom sms / txt snoopingInstinct – Mobile Internet Widgets Powered by Pocket Express
Learn how to use the News, Sports, Weather, and Movies mobile internet widgets on the Samsung Instinct.
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News Update: Telefonica SA Beefs Up Pressure on Portugal Telecom from Bid Refusal (TEF,PT,DB)
05/26/2010 – Europe’s largest telecommunications company, Telefonica SA (NYSE:TEF), stepped up pressure Wednesday on Portugal Telecom (NYSE:PT) through an online presentation on Telefonica SA’s website saying that its bid for Vivo was rejected by Portugal Telecom “without due consideration,” since it was rejected after only four days.
Telefonica SA’s online presentation also criticized board members for failing to give international investors a fair chance to look at its proposal offer for Vivo.
Telefonica SA’s chief financial officer refused to rule out a bid by the company for Portugal Telecom, as well, in today’s Financial Times newspaper.
However, Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE:DB) analysts don’t think such a bid is very likely, since the Portuguese government holds a major share in Portugal Telecom and the government would probably “be uncomfortable ceding control of a national champion” to a foreign firm at such a time.
Shares of Telefonica SA closed yesterday at $56.66, whereas Portugal Telecom closed out the trading day at $9.12.
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1971 Bangladesh – “Salam Bangladesh……..Bangladesh Salam……..” by WARID telecom
1971 Bangladesh – “Salam Bangladesh…….Bangladesh Salam……..” by WARID telecom
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Comical parody on Telecom scam