• NE Business Awards 2012
• London 2012 Olympics
• Just The Job: John Feeney
• LG Awards 2011

NE Business Awards 2012

London 2012 Olympics

Just The Job: John Feeney

LG Awards 2011

Here is a video clip from the recent North East Business awards, in which Odyssey Systems came out winners.

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Mike comments, “We have to ask – what is the purpose of listening to the general background chatter of the public at such great expense when we could be saving that money to keep open valuable schools and hospitals. It seems that everyone (except the government) knows that even the most stupid terrorist would communicate with a throw away PAYG mobile which avoids traceability . Logically this bill will only drive the more intelligent terrorist to permanently secure their communications so that they could not be intercepted, something they may not be doing today because they have no reason to believe they are being monitored.

With one fell swoop the government is decimating civil liberty and preparing a new generation of terrorists to circumvent legislation which already works perfectly well.”

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He said: “This appears not to have been thought through or even had input from any industry experts. The reality is that it is highly unlikely to be able to work in the way suggested, making it a pointless exercise, the cost of which will undoubtedly be borne by the consumer through taxes or increased charges.”

“From the ISP’s perspective, most of the services involved are secured in such a way that not even the ISP can tell what the user is doing. All that is available is what account logged on and the time they logged on. There is no real proof that it was the account owner who logged on. The actual data transferred would itself be unreadable and would definitely not reveal who the user was contacting or the content of the conversation.

The aim of the legislation is to allow very close monitoring of an individual’s entire communications (to include Facebook, twitter, email, Skype etc.). All these services use highly encrypted security that not even the government can bypass. However, the government can already get all this information and much more, directly from service providers such as twitter, with a simple warrant that is not even signed by a judge.”

As is clear from recent comments from pro civil liberties organisations, this new legislation is clearly an attempt to get access by the state to all communication information for every single uk citizen simultaneously and without any due process. The original bill allowed the police, councils, quangos and 650 other public bodies unfettered access to the information, and no doubt this will be the case in the new proposed legislation.

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GOVERNMENT CYBER-SNOOPING PLANS ARE “POINTLESS AND EMBARRASSING”

Plans for Government, police and intelligence officers to be able to monitor anyone’s real time phone and internet records will be “pointless and a major embarrassment” if they appear in the Queen’s Speech, according to IT entrepreneur Mike Odysseas.

Mike, managing director of Tees Valley business to business telecoms provider Odyssey Systems says:

• The plans do not take into account what is realistically feasible.
• Internet Service Providers (ISPs) will be expected to hold the information on behalf of any government department.
• Some ISP’s could choose to sell their new ‘legal snooping’ database (as BT attempted two years ago but failed due to consumer backlash).
• It’s likely that the £2bn+ cost to businesses, of this bill would be passed on through government taxation or higher charges for consumers.
• The timing of the leak of this story is an attempt to make it “old news” when it is included in the Queen’s speech.

 

Mike strongly believes that his Stockton-based firm is one of the many smaller Internet Service Providers (ISPs) which will suffer, along with millions of consumers.

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DECISIVE ACTION NEEDED BY GOVERNMENT: TEES VALLEY BUSINESS BOSS

Mike Odysseas, Managing Director of award-winning Tees Valley telecommunications business, believes Government needs to take decisive action and make short-term pain lead to long term improvements to the economy.

He said: “At the rate action is being taken on the economy, our generation’s children and grandchildren are going to be suffering the pain of the recent recession, because the Government has its head in the sand.

“We need some real pain for everyone, whatever they do, however much they earn, to actually get some results and start to solve the financial problems this country is facing.

“There are some signs of improvement, for example with the Treasury closing the £500m tax loophole in relation to Barclays, but Government at all levels needs to start operating at more realistic levels of cost, more in line with private sector business.

“As far as I can see, very little has actually been achieved and decisive action is needed now.”

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ODYSSEY SYSTEMS CLAIM RENOWNED CUSTOMER SERVICE AWARD

Mike & the rest of the Odyssey team celebrated their successes of 2012, continuing their achievements by picking up the illustrious Services award, at the Teesside Business Awards 2012.

The services award recognises professional service organisations that have demonstrated strength in a number of areas, including Service Excellence, Service Differentiation, Business Growth, and Innovation.

Odyssey Systems have been thriving to excel in providing the best possible telecom solutions, and feel privileged to have garnered this recognition.

They will be up against the sub-regional winners from Durham & Wearside, and Tyneside & Northumberland, at the Regional finals held on Thursday, 26th April 2012.

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Odyssey System’s as featured on BBC Look North, as part of the “Quit Smoking” incentive.

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THE COUNTDOWN TO LONDON 2012

2012 is finally here and it is the year of the London Olympics. With less than 200 days to go, you may be wondering if it is going to affect you and your business? Be assured Odyssey is making sure that they are in perfect shape and at peak performance to help all of our customers in 2012.

There is no doubt there will be a high level of demand for key services during the Olympic games. During games time, at peak moments we expect that the demand for broadband will be higher than normal. There is no way we can predict when these peak periods will be, we imagine this will entirely depend on how well the team GB do? But Odyssey will be prepared to meet the high demand expected during games time and will do everything we can to maximize our broadband performance.

As an Odyssey customer you don’t need to worry about your broadband over this peak period as Odyssey have anticipated a high demand for the broadband services. Odyssey are dedicated to offering you a reliable, uninterrupted, high speed broadband service, with plenty of bandwidth for all our customers so that they will be able to access the games without any problem, or without any limitations on your service.

Getting our business fighting fit for the impact of the 2012 games means you just have to sit back and enjoy the spectacular event. Fingers crossed for team GB.

If you would like more information on upgrading your services to ensure you don’t miss a moment of the Olympic games, or have any other queries about your service. Call us on 0330 005 5555

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