FCC Issues Rule Allowing FBI to Dictate Wiretap-Friendly Design for In ternet Services

Sun Aug 7 02:13:54 UTC 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