­A former employee of Alcatel-Lucent has been accused of bribery in an attempt at obtaining confidential information as part of the company’s bid in landing a contract floated by the state owned Telekom Malaysia.

Alcatel-Lucent was central to a series of bribery scandals that swept the company starting 2001 till 2006, from which the current episode had emerged.

Before Alcatel had merged with Lucent, Radziah Ani was employed by the former. She had pleaded not guilty in the wake of the charge of bribing $8,3000 to Mohd Asri Idris who was a official at Telekom in 2006 for doling out rival company submitted bid information. Incidentally, Alcatel had eventually won the contract that run to the amount of $100 million of worth.

Earlier, Ms. Radziah, 49 years of age had been released on bail. In the event of conviction, she however, faces up to 20 years of jail. The trial resumes on the 17th October.

However, Axiata and Telekom Malaysia had both banned Alcatel-Lucent from bidding for contract tenders for one year by way of a response to the bribery scandal.

­Greenpacket is a telecom software developer based in Malaysia. It has announced that it has started to put its Intouch Connection Management Platform (ICMP) through the paces. The company is looking to launch the LTE-ready software by the close of 2011.

According to Kelvin Lee, Senior General Manager, Greenpacket, they are looking to facilitate seamless internet experience no matter which network, subscribers use.

As they lay the foundation stone for supporting LTE, Greenpacket is ready to take-on the task of addressing the huge and growing appetite of mobile data services where global mobile traffic is expected to increase 26 fold between 2010 and 2015.

The Malaysian Nuclear Agency (MNA) has been commissioned by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) to perform emission level checks at 52 telecommunication tower sites in Penang. A series of radio frequency (RF) non-ionizing radiation measurements are expected to be carried out.

Earlier, safety concerns have been raised with regard to the non-ionizing radiation levels, telecommunications transmitters placed on towers and other platforms emanate. The MNA is deliberating on measuring RF emissions so as to provide information based on facts and then establish if the emission levels are unsafe and beyond permissible limits.

The MNA is a government controlled agency under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation Malaysia (MOSTI) and its Non-Ionizing Radiation (NIR) Group provides services such as telecommunications site radiation independent surveys to measure RF emission, industrial environment and assess potential health hazards.

The tests for emission levels were started on 6 June 2011 and are expected to be over by 16 July 2011.