Fast, faster, fast enough? The appetite of consumers but also businesses for increased internet bandwidth is continuing to grow. Technology changes enable this and drive new use cases. Video streaming services are now more popular than ever, and eMBB is one of the early drivers of 5G. The increased adoption of fiber to the home […]

The relevance for Lawful Interception of the EU Directive 2018/1972 EECC for OTT services In December 2018, a new EU Directive came in force to establish the European Electronic Communications Code. This EU Directive had to be transposed to the various national laws ultimately in December 2020. Although today this did not happen yet in […]

Group 2000 provided Forensic Analytics cutting-edge technology for successful G7 policing. Our innovative LIMA solution aids Devon and Cornwall Police with summit security. Devon and Cornwall Police have been, quite rightly, widely praised after the policing of the G7 summit in Cornwall last week went without a hitch. We can now reveal that some of […]

This is the title of the webcast which we as Group 2000 have presented last Tuesday, June 15th, 2021 on the ISS World Training, facilitated by Telestrategies. We have shared the various avenues, to continue to collect off-air intelligence. Some technologies are based on jamming or with the support of our LIMA 5G CellPro platform. […]

When it comes to supplier selection processes either for new customers or expansions for your current customers the bottom line is that companies ought to act, no better must act like it is a beauty contest. In a lot of cases and based on years of analysis they, unfortunately, do not… Regular supplier behavior (in […]

For supporting investigations into criminal activities, investigators often use information provided by the operators of mobile networks. The accepted methods for retrieving such information are lawful intercept and the retrieval of retained data. The first provides metadata and content in real-time whilst the latter provides historical metadata. Often serving as supporting evidence, lawful interception and […]

With the introduction and rollout of 5G networks both for stand-alone and non-stand-alone network architectures, new Lawful Interception capabilities must be in place in the network of the operator in order to stay compliant with the regulatory laws of the local government. As such the evolving technology will cause the following considerations for mobile network […]

While the whole world is moving to Cloud, some applications are still considered to be too sensitive or too critical to run from a cloud environment due to its nature, whether this is in a private cloud instance or space from a public cloud provider. Legal compliance functions like Lawful Interception and Data Retention belong […]

In the past, we were used to working (sometimes) from our home office and spent the day on work or creating documents where concentration was needed. Nowadays in COVID-19 days, we must lead our teams via computer screens, conduct sales to existing and new customers, attempting to make new contacts, collaborate and solve problems – […]

How often reading (interesting) articles and blogs do we encounter an inexhaustible summary of all the advantages of a solution or a product? All the advantages and especially technical specifications come forward in the hope (of a supplier) of convincing customers (you!) to ultimately award an order to the supplying company. From our perspective, this […]

Data retention is all about persisting and disclosing data to meet legal, compliance, and business data archival requirements. One of the key requirements of data retention is that the stored data is available for retrieval during the entire operational period.

Many investigations rely on that “single” (smart)phone interaction that turns out to be the lead to prevent or resolve an illicit activity or find the person that needs aid.

For repetitive tasks, each click, each keystroke costs time. Fewer clicks and keystrokes increase efficiency. No one will debate that. Still, a lot of software applications are not designed with this simple principle in mind. Particularly, when a process is not standard for each organization or user. What is missing here is that within the […]

It is a fact that the “future” 5G networks are designed to enhance subscribers’ privacy. This causes technological concerns for intelligence services to gain the right data from the network in the new Era of mobile communications for the purpose of tactical operations. Traditional tactical IMSI operations are designed and aimed to identify, locate or […]

It was widely spread in the news, many countries today use Network Based Intelligence to contain the spreading of COVID-19

The COVID-19 virus spreads across the globe at high speed. Many national and regional governments have taken precautionary measures or are preparing them to slow down the further spread. The severity of these measures increases at the same time. As your architects in safety and intelligence, we expect you’ll have questions regarding the continuity of […]

Lawful Interception is a powerful tool for Police and Intelligence Services to fight crime and terrorism. Obviously, the availability of lawful interception is of paramount importance and even a short downtime of this service could have disastrous consequences for ongoing investigations.

To fulfill legal obligations, telecommunication network operators are obliged to handle legal warrants for lawful intercepts and lawful disclosures. With increasing numbers of warrants and the use of electronic handover interfaces, network operators may come in a situation where they feel that they are losing control over the process.

Lawful Interception (LI) architectures deployed in telecommunication networks consist of many complex building blocks that are connected and integrated together. If one of these building blocks fails for whatever reason, potential important and often crucial intercepted data can be lost.

One of the Technical Committees of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) is responsible for developing standards that support the technical requirements of national and international obligations for law enforcement: the Technical Committee on Lawful Interception (TC-LI).

Over the previous generations of mobile networks, we have seen a steady increase in bandwidth and a move from traditional circuit-switched technology to an all-IP network. The 5G network takes this massive step further in various aspects. 5G is much, much more than the common perspective of mobile “ users” “just like 4G, but faster”!

Everybody working in Telecom and IT knows that developments are going faster and faster. We have only just gotten used to 4G and then the auction for 5G is on the doorstep and the technology for 6G with speeds that literally make us dizzy is already partly conceived.