See www.tcibr.com for more details. Looks like some fun equipment for cypherpunks to evaluate for purchase. John Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 21:10:41 -0500 Forwarded-by: Paul Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Forwarded-by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Started spending the billion in "US Aid" to spy, track and database all colombians using wireless communications. SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 31, 2000--TCI International, Inc. (Nasdaq:TCII - news) announced today that on 28 January 2000, the Ministry of Communications of the Republic of Colombia formally and unconditionally accepted TCI's $18M Nationwide Automatic Spectrum Management and Monitoring System in Colombia. The TCI Model 710 System is believed to be the first such state-of-the-art Telecommunications Infrastructure Modernization Project to be purchased and operated by an indigenous Telecommunications Authority in Latin or South America. The Colombian Ministry of Communications and TCI are currently discussing the terms of a follow-on contract to provide technical support during the year 2000. TCI looks forward to cooperating closely with the Ministry in future years to supply System spares, maintenance, technical upgrades, and training. TCI International, Inc. is a holding company comprised of three product groups. The broadcast group offers broad-bandwidth antenna solutions for HF communications and high power short wave and MF broadcasting applications. This group has recently introduced proprietary antenna and transmission feeder solutions for the FM and TV broadcast markets. The signal processing group provides direction finding, signal collection, and specialized communication receiver and transmitter products to military and intelligence oriented customers. The test and measurement group designs and sells commercial variants of the company's direction finding technology to the ITU spectrum monitoring market. Its products consist of specialized application and database software and proprietary monitoring, measurement, and direction finding hardware that operates from 10 kHz to 3 GHz. ------- End of Forwarded Message