Both deals involve rolling out wireless Internet services to some 2 million handheld telephones over the next year.
With Mitterrand's full knowledge and approval, if not at his actual behest, the unit illegally tapped the telephones of some 200 worthy citizens, including judges, politicians, lawyers, journalists, even a leading actress, Carole Bouquet.
Some commonly used digital cellular telephones are designed with encryption capabilities and must be certified by the Federal Security Service.
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This ruling was interpreted by some to mean that unlocking mobile telephones would be illegal in most if not all circumstances, even prompting a petition to the White House to overturn the Librarian's ruling.
Also, with an upcoming add-on product called the Phone Port, you'll be able to do some new things with your home's telephones that weren't easily accomplished before.
Other questions include the judicial authority needed for some forms of surveillance, although police in France can tap telephones with the approval of the Prime Minister and an administrative panel.
Some of the company's programmers did not even have home telephones.
Mobile-phone companies are starting to get African supporters to pay to get football-related texts, and in some countries fans may soon be able to watch their team on their telephones.
But Deconcini says some of the most serious violations dealt not with hygiene but with access to telephones.
Judged on service, some of the new services have their drawbacks: fiddly boxes that must be fitted to telephones, slow connections, fuzzy sound quality.
In an era of interactive television cables, the growth of computer checking and check-out counters, of security systems and telephones, all lodged together in computers, it would be relatively easy at some point to give a profile of a person and tell what they buy in a store, what kind of food they like, what sort of television programs they watch.
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