Internet, Technology, Telecomunications

TeliaSonera International Carrier (TSIC) is a global provider of IP-services with a network spanning around the globe. Taking a stand against child sexual abuse content online is an important part of TeliaSonera’s corporate social responsibility and with its global IP-network the company is in a good position to considerably prevent the further spreading of material containing child sexual abuse, reports LETA.

Launching a service that prevents the spreading of this type of material is an important step toward protecting the safety of children all over the world. We now hope that our customers, operators and ISPs, join forces with us and activate this service toward their end-users, said Malin Frenning, President TeliaSonera International Carrier.

The service is based on a solution provided by the Swedish company NetClean and uses a dynamic and comprehensive list from the UK-based Internet Watch Foundation. The list contains live child sexual abuse URL’s. Internet Watch Foundation continuously identifies and registers web sites containing child sexual abuse material.

"We are the first carrier to launch this type of solution in an international IP-network and we sincerely hope that our colleagues within the industry join this initiative," Frenning said.

The service works the following way: it denies access of end users to previously identified web sites containing material with child sexual abuse images.

This means that if a user, willingly or not, tries to access such a page, he or she will instead be confronted with a stop sign, explaining why the page is not available for viewing.

"Childhood is delighted that one of the projects we have previously supported, NetClean Technologies, and one of our founding members, TeliaSonera, are finding ways to establish a strategic cooperation within an area that we know is both important and possible to influence," Gunilla von Arbin, Secretary General of the World Childhood Foundation commented the innovation from TeliaSonera.

TeliaSonera International Carrier owns and manages over 43,000 kilometers of fiber-optic cable and has more than 100 points of presence across Europe, the US and Asia.

NetClean is the world leading company when it comes to develop tools to support every aspect to protect children online. NetClean has a wide range of experience in the field of combating child sexual abuse content online and develops its product’s in cooperation with police forces worldwide.

TeliaSonera provides telecommunication services in the Nordic and Baltic countries, in Spain and the emerging markets of Eurasia, including Russia and Turkey.

TeliaSonera presently holds a 49% stake in Lattelecom, and the state of Latvia 51%.

TeliaSonera also owns 49% of LMT shares, another 28% interest in LMT belongs to the state of Latvia (with a 23% interest held by LVRTC and 5% the Latvian Privatization Agency), and the remaining 23% of LMT shares belong to Lattelecom.