From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: declan.mccullagh
Subject: RE: [Politech] FCC votes 5-0 for Internet wiretapping;Verizon app
lauds [priv]
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 11:27:16 -0400
Mr. Getz,
I'm certainly sorry to hear that you've decided not to join the more than 40
million customers who have chosen Verizon Wireless for their wireless
communications needs. Should you be interested in learning more about us
and our best-in-class national wireless network, please let me know and I'd
be happy to arrange for an expert in one of our stores to show you what
we've got.
Best wishes,
Jeffrey Nelson
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From: George Getz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 11:29 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: 'Declan McCullagh'
Subject: FW: [Politech] FCC votes 5-0 for Internet wiretapping;Verizon
applauds [priv]
Dear Jeff:
I was in the process of deciding whether to go with Cingular or Verizon when
my contract expires next week.
After reading this I chose Cingular.
George Getz
Communications Director
Libertarian Party
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Declan McCullagh
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 8:33 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Politech] FCC votes 5-0 for Internet wiretapping;Verizon applauds
[priv]
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My article on the decision itself:
http://news.com.com/Feds+back+wiretap+rules+for+Internet/2100-7352_3-5296417
.html
"Broadband providers and Internet phone services must comply with
wiretapping requirements designed for the traditional phone network, the
Federal Communications Commission said in a preliminary decision Wednesday."
My column on questions to ask John Ashcroft and the FBI:
http://news.com.com/Fahrenheit+FBI/2010-7352_3-5300198.html
. Your request to the FCC said that broadband and VoIP companies may raise
prices to "recover their CALEA implementation costs from their customers."
How do you square higher prices with President Bush's speech in March
calling for "affordable broadband" for all Americans?
. Congress gave telephone companies $500 million to buy new equipment to
comply with CALEA. Why should Internet companies not receive the same
treatment? Is it because Verizon, SBC and the other former Bells have
well-connected lobbying outposts in Washington, D.C.--but Vonage, 8x8 and
other VoIP start-ups do not?
. Skype CEO Niklas Zennstrom told me last fall that "we do not have any
legal obligation to provide any means for interception" in his company's
VoIP software. How will you force a company based in Luxembourg to insert
backdoors in its software when it has no obligation to do so?
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http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=SVBIZINK3.story&STORY=/www
/story/08-04-2004/0002225257&EDATE=WED+Aug+04+2004,+02:20+PM
Verizon Wireless Applauds FCC for Law Enforcement Assistance
BEDMINSTER, N.J., Aug. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) today ruled that CALEA, the Communications Assistance for
Law
Enforcement Act, covers all voice telecommunications services, regardless of
technology used to transmit voice. Steven Zipperstein, vice president and
general counsel at Verizon Wireless, commended the FCC, making the following
statement:
"The Federal Communications Commission struck directly at criminals and
terrorists today in deciding that all voice communications -- irrespective
of
technology -- are covered under the nation's wiretap laws. Verizon Wireless
advocated this result and strongly agrees that law enforcement, when armed
with court-sanctioned authority, needs the ability to listen into suspected
criminals and terrorists whether they are communicating through traditional
voice technologies or using newer VoIP or push-to-talk services."
About Verizon Wireless
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communications. The company has the largest nationwide wireless voice and
data
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Jeffrey Nelson
Verizon Wireless
908.306.4824
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