diff --git a/packages/sysutils/busybox/conf.d/telnetd b/packages/sysutils/busybox/conf.d/telnetd
deleted file mode 100644
index 7c3dde9894..0000000000
--- a/packages/sysutils/busybox/conf.d/telnetd
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-################################################################################
-# Telnet Server environment variables.
-#
-# This file contains non-OpenELEC evironment variables as well as OpenELEC
-# evironment variables that are not user defined.
-################################################################################
-
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Start Telnet Server on boot.
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-OE_START_TELNETSERVER=yes
diff --git a/packages/sysutils/busybox/config/busybox.conf b/packages/sysutils/busybox/config/busybox.conf
index bb4c01e22f..d5e4e493b5 100644
--- a/packages/sysutils/busybox/config/busybox.conf
+++ b/packages/sysutils/busybox/config/busybox.conf
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # Automatically generated make config: don't edit
 # Busybox version: 1.15.1
-# Sun Sep 20 04:53:32 2009
+# Sun Sep 20 05:27:58 2009
 #
 CONFIG_HAVE_DOT_CONFIG=y
 
@@ -723,8 +723,8 @@ CONFIG_ROUTE=y
 # CONFIG_TELNET is not set
 # CONFIG_FEATURE_TELNET_TTYPE is not set
 # CONFIG_FEATURE_TELNET_AUTOLOGIN is not set
-CONFIG_TELNETD=y
-CONFIG_FEATURE_TELNETD_STANDALONE=y
+# CONFIG_TELNETD is not set
+# CONFIG_FEATURE_TELNETD_STANDALONE is not set
 # CONFIG_TFTP is not set
 # CONFIG_TFTPD is not set
 # CONFIG_FEATURE_TFTP_GET is not set
diff --git a/packages/sysutils/busybox/init.d/52_telnet b/packages/sysutils/busybox/init.d/52_telnet
deleted file mode 100755
index 427418e47f..0000000000
--- a/packages/sysutils/busybox/init.d/52_telnet
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-#
-# start telnet daemon
-#
-# runlevels: openelec, text, debug
-
-. /etc/sysconfig
-
-if test "$OE_START_TELNETSERVER" = "yes" -a -f /etc/issue; then
-  progress "Starting telnet daemon"
-  telnetd -f /etc/issue >/dev/null 2>&1 &
-fi
-
-exit 0