NSA's Lucky Break: How the U.S. Became Switchboard to the World - The Diigo Meta page

• 17 Dec 13
  

  Roman Kulchitsky
• 04 Apr 12
  

  Guillermo Santamaria
  • International phone and internet traffic flows through the United States largely because of pricing models established more than 100 years ago in the International Telecommunication Union to handle international phone calls. Under those ITU tariffs, smaller and developing countries charge higher fees to accept calls than the U.S.-based carriers do, which can make it cheaper to route phone calls through the United States than directly to a neighboring country.
• 04 Sep 08
  

  ian atkinson

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• 31 Oct 07
  

  javapapillon
• 18 Oct 07
  

  "Much of the globe's international telephone traffic flows through the United States, as shown by this rendering of 2005 international phone-call traffic from telecommunications resarch firm, Telegeography. "

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• 15 Oct 07
  

  elsamary

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• 13 Oct 07
  

  Frank Colcord

  Cui bono

• 12 Oct 07
  

  Alex Whitlock
  • International phone and internet traffic flows through the United States largely because of pricing models established more than 100 years ago in the International Telecommunication Union to handle international phone calls. Under those ITU tariffs, smaller and developing countries charge higher fees to accept calls than the U.S.-based carriers do, which can make it cheaper to route phone calls through the United States than directly to a neighboring country.
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  Nathan M

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  azgaribd

  A great advantage if your aim is to hunt down terrorists through their cellphones and Internet connections. This piece has a terrific map, too. Hat tip: <a href="http://www.instapundit.com/" target="_blank" />Instapundit</a>

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  Matthew Galgani

  A great advantage if your aim is to hunt down terrorists through their cellphones and Internet connections. This piece has a terrific map, too. Hat tip: <a href="http://www.instapundit.com/" target="_blank" />Instapundit</a>

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  Michel Roland

  
  A lucky coincidence of economics is responsible for routing much of the world's internet and telephone traffic through switching points in the United States, where, under legislation introduced this week, the U.S. National Security Agency will be free t

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  • A lucky coincidence of economics is responsible for routing much of the world's internet and telephone traffic through switching points in the United States, where, under legislation introduced this week, the U.S. National Security Agency will be free to continue tapping it.
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  Brett McLennan

  A lucky coincidence of economics is responsible for routing much of the world's internet and telephone traffic through switching points in the United States, where, under legislation introduced this week, the U.S. National Security Agency will be free to

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  Alphonse Scaf

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  The Anarcat

  In those early days, internet traffic from one Asian country often bounced through the

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