Europe’s largest telecommunications company, Deutsche Telekom, has upgraded its internal inquiry into a snooping scandal, appointing a former senior judge with his own staff to question personnel and recommend new privacy guidelines. … more

The Supreme Court of Canada will decide next week whether to hear an appeal of a lower court decision that could derail the C$34.8 billion ($35.2 billion) plan to take telecoms giant BCE Inc. private. … more

Telecommunications carrier T-Mobile USA Inc. spent nearly $700,000 in the first quarter to lobby on spectrum matters and other issues, according to a disclosure report. … more

The contentious telecommunications service obligations (TSO) system, which requires certain services to be provided to meet social objectives, is in for a shake-up.

Communications and Information Technology Minister David Cunliffe today said he had called for a fundamental review of the local service TSO. … more

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on Friday reviewed and modified its 2007 decision on the Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications Services Inc., a new consumer agency established by service providers last year. … more

OTE, Greece’s largest telecom group and partly owned by Deutsche Telekom, may sue Siemens for damages over alleged overcharging, German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported. … more

As mobile frequencies will not be available in the short term, Gartner does not expect mobile WiMAX rollouts to be available at larger scales before 2009, at the earliest

Gartner expects India to have 6.9 million mobile and fixed WiMAX connections by the end of 2011. However it expects India will remain a niche market for WiMAX until 2009

Nareshchandra Singh, Principal Research Analyst, Gartner in an interaction with Idhries Ahmad of CIOL, explains why inspite of the hype around the technology, WiMax will remain a niche market for WiMAX until 2009. … more

You only need to type “voice over IP security” into Google and find the millions of results to realise the depth of the fear. Malicious damage to your business through business interruption, virus or denial of service (DoS) attacks, criminal activity, telephony fraud or theft of information are all genuine concerns. … more

Under the FCC’s proposal, the winner of the 25Mhz piece of spectrum in the 2155MHz band would have to use some of the spectrum for free wireless Internet access

The winner of the 25Mhz piece of spectrum in the 2155MHz band would be required to use a specified amount of the spectrum to deliver free wireless Internet access. The operator could choose to use any technology, but in that range, WiMax or many of the mobile technologies would make sense. … more

Major telecom operators like Reliance Communications and Tata Teleservices may have begun their Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access or WiMAX rollouts, but the results are yet to show in full measure. … more