Abstract: A method for establishing connections between users of a telecommunications network, the telecommunications network comprising a plurality of network devices, the network devices comprising a plurality of user devices and a plurality of network infrastructure devices, comprising: providing a system for establishing said connections; wherein the system performs on one or more of the network devices a semantic analysis and similarity calculation operation on a data item associated with a user so as to ascertain whether the data item has more than a predetermined degree of semantic similarity with other data items associated with other users, and in a case that more than a predetermined degree of semantic similarity is ascertained between the data item and a said other data item, between the user and the user associated with that said other data item, indicating awareness and a possible channel for communication.

Abstract: A method for establishing connections between users of a telecommunications network, the telecommunications network comprising a plurality of network devices, the network devices comprising a plurality of user devices and a plurality of network infrastructure devices, comprising: providing a system for establishing said connections; wherein the system performs on one or more of the network devices a semantic analysis and similarity calculation operation on a data item associated with a user so as to ascertain whether the data item has more than a predetermined degree of semantic similarity with other data items associated with other users, and in a case that more than a predetermined degree of semantic similarity is ascertained between the data item and a said other data item, between the user and the user associated with that said other data item, indicating awareness and a possible channel for communication.