FYI, from Interesting People ------- Start of forwarded message ------- Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 04:38:37 -0500 From: Dave Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: IP: TMI sets precedent with U.S. deal: Telecom firm agrees to wiretaps -- but not on Canadians [JUST AMERICANS? djf] >From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Dave e-mail pamphleteer Farber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >http://www.canoe.ca/MoneyNewsTechnology/sept13_tmisatellite.html > >TMI sets precedent with U.S. deal >Wins security clearance: Telecom firm agrees to wiretaps -- but not on >Canadians >More Technology News >By PETER MORTON >The Financial Post > > WASHINGTON - A tiny Canadian satellite communications company will be the >first foreign firm to receive top security approval from the FBI to operate a >telecommunications business in the United States after agreeing to allow U.S. >security agencies to wiretap its service. > > The precedent-setting deal, to be signed today, will soon allow TMI >Communications Inc. to offer satellite telecommunications services in the U.S. >market, Larry Boisvert, TMI's chief executive, confirmed in an interview. > > "If you want to provide telecommunications in the U.S. you have to be >prepared to meet the security required as determined by the FBI and the >Department of Justice," Mr. Boisvert said. > > Even though it will operate the service from Canada, TMI agreed to put a >digital switch in the United States that would give FBI and other U.S. >security >agencies the ability to listen in on satellite calls or copy data, such as >financial records, as required by new federal laws that will force all U.S. >mobile communications companies to do the same by next June. > ><snip> > >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- >[EMAIL PROTECTED], Prague CZ * tel/mobil +420 (0)603 706 558 >"Success is getting what you want & happiness is wanting what you get" >http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/01/biztech/articles/17drop.html ------- End of forwarded message -------
