| O2 claims 4G auction will cost £1bn and is illegal Posted: 12 Jun 2011 05:00 AM PDT Posted by Devina Divecha on Sun 12 Jun 2011 4G has gone just a littel further away, with potential delays O2 has said that the long-awaited auction of the new 4G mobile services is "illegal under EU law", alleging Ofcom is offering up to £1 billion of illegal state aid to its rivals.
Legal issues could mean that the auction could be delayed.
A spokesman for O2 said that parts of the current auction equated to “state aid and are therefore illegal under European Union law”.
They said: "The spectrum floors would distort the auction process, allowing all bidders, except Vodafone and O2, to potentially acquire spectrum at discounted prices." They suggested this would cost taxpayer's up to £1 billion.
Ofcom denied these statements and said: "We are fully aware of state aid rules and would not have made proposals that we considered illegal."
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| Former T-Mobile employees to pay £73,700 for data theft Posted: 12 Jun 2011 03:53 AM PDT Posted by Devina Divecha on Sun 12 Jun 2011 Data thieves to pay a hefty fine. Two former employees of T-Mobile have been fined £73,000 for stealing and selling customer data by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).
David Turley and Darren Hames pleaded guilty to breaking the Data Protection Act, and were ordered to pay back a total of £73,700 (£45,000 and £28,700 respectively).
The investigation began in December 2008 when T-Mobile contacted the ICO over suspicions of data theft. The pair will also pay for the costs of the case, which the ICO will use to train its investigation staff.
"Today's hearing marks the final chapter in an investigation that has exposed the criminals behind a mass illegal trade in lucrative mobile phone contract information,"said Christopher Graham, Information commissioner.
"Those who have regular access to thousands of customer details may think that attempts to use it for personal gain will go undetected. But this case shows there is always an audit trail and my office will do everything in its power to uncover it," he added.
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| Three arrested in Spain; believed to be Anonymous Posted: 12 Jun 2011 02:00 AM PDT Posted by Devina Divecha on Sun 12 Jun 2011 Suspected hackers arrested Three men in Spain have been arrest by police as they are believed to be members of hacker group, Anonymous.
Sony had claimed that Anonymous was behind the online PlayStation Network being hacked, which compromised personal data of 77 million users.
Spanish police went through millions of lines of chat logs of the group's supporters and found their way to the suspects. The police claim one of the arrests have been made at a location which has the server used to hack PSN.
They found the suspects because a web-based tool they were allegedly using called Loic did not hide the hacker's identity very well.
The arrests in Spain were made at the same time in Barcelona, Valencia and Almeria during raids, which follows similar arrests made in the UK.
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Via: TechRadar
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