CopperEye aids Slovak law enforcement

CopperEye, which provides data management solutions, recently finished a joint project with Slovak Telekom and its T-Mobile Slovensko subsidiary in order to address the European Data Retention Directive (EUDRD).

CopperEye was responsible for finding a solution in which both companies could access secure data from one central location, despite a different array of services that both companies provided separately.

The joint project includes implementing a solution titled the Sun Micosystem’s Secure Data Retrieval Server, so that all three companies will be able to retain and secure data for a twelve month time period for all of their mobile and Internet services which are compliant with the new EDRD.

This solution will aid Slovakia officials with access to information that may be needed in criminal investigations.

A notable feature of the solution is that a single system was created that will allow the three companies to store telephone, mobile phone, and internet data together so it can be accessed from one central location.

At the same time, Telekom announced that it will allow T-Mobile to offer customers for the first time VoIP access from their mobile phones if they agree to a monthly fee of $14.

The move allows T-Mobile German customers to access VoIP services like Skype for the first time, beginning this summer.

Previously customers of T-Mobile in Germany were in breach of content if they attempted to use VoIP services via the iPhone, GI, or any other smart device while under contract with T-Mobile.

While industry experts expect a backlash from the additional fee, as customers will have to pay for data services on top of VoIP access, a move that seems redundant, managing director of T-Mobile Deutschland, Geog Polzl, said that the fee is added so that users who do not want VoIP access are not billed for the additional costs the service incurs.