[FedCom] BlackBerrys for the FBI

[J Doe]

Verizon Wireless yesterday announced the deployment of 19,500
internationally enabled BlackBerry 8830 World Edition Smartphones to
more than 56 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) offices worldwide.
The devices are part of the agency's Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU)
Mobility Program and provide FBI agents with mobile access to federal
law enforcement information that was previously inaccessible from
handheld wireless devices.

"The FBI works hard to provide our agents and professional staff with
the technology needed to perform their job anywhere in the world,"
said FBI Chief Information Officer Zalmai Azmi. "These devices allow
FBI employees access not only to the Internet, e-mail calendar and
taskings, but also to applications critical to our mission such as the
no-fly list, missing and kidnapped persons, crime alerts, etc."