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Re: FCC Issues Rule Allowing FBI to Dictate Wiretap-Friendly Designfor In ternet Services

  • From: sjk
  • Date: Sat Aug 06 22:14:55 2005 
On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, Randy Bush wrote:




It also hobbles technical innovation by forcing companies involved in
broadband to redesign their products to meet government requirements.



As opposed to hobbling innovation by meeting customer requirements?



who's paying the bill?  and sorry to hear from a vendor that meeting
the customers' requirements is such a negative thing.

randy





We all pay the bill with higher equipment costs, the maintenance of
configurations, and possible storage costs. CALEA was bound to include
VoIP services - given the definition telecom carrier in the act; however,
as I recall -- and I may be wrong -- when CALEA was first passed the
carriers were given tax breaks and subsidies to implement changes. Is
such financial help being offered today?



--sjk