[FedCom] BlackBerrys for the FBI

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that's 170 Blackberrys for each of 56 FBI FIeld Offices.



Quoting J Doe <usgovagent at gmail.com>:

> 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."
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