One deficiency in the way communications facilities are presently configured is the lack of interoperability between onboard WiFi systems and those on shore when the ship docks.

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The law governing workplace-privacy expectations, including privacy of employee personal communications using the employer's devices and communications facilities, favors, as it should, the employer's legitimate interests in protecting its assets against waste, confidentiality and assuring a lawful workplace environment.

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The country has plans for better satellite communications, broadcasting facilities, weather forecasting and Earth observation missions all of which will have a dual civilian and military role, but none of which need be manned.

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The force, separate from NATO but with plans to share some NATO planning facilities, intelligence and communications, would be used to meet crises that NATO does not want to get involved in.

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This is because an expectation of privacy arguably could be said to be greater in this context than it is with respect to communications over exclusively employee-owned devices and communication facilities.

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In every other developed country in the world policy makers would be thrilled to have a second independent competitive national broadband communications infrastructure, like cable offers, that creates facilities-based competitive benefits of innovation, investment and diversity of choice.

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Infrastructure investments could include bridge and highway construction and repair, new commuter and high-speed rail lines, upgrading communications systems, renovating or building new schools, community colleges and state-of-the art job training facilities, investing in dams, waterways and water treatment facilities, reclaiming key wetlands, and improving the basic livability of impoverished neighborhoods.

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