[FedCom] BlackBerrys for the FBI

[Jeff Kenyon]

What will they be doing with the rest of their communications on their own
frequencies and/or uses on state systems like the one in Michigan and
others?





On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, ed wrote:

> that's 170 Blackberrys for each of 56 FBI FIeld Offices.
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> Quoting J Doe <usgovagent at gmail.com>:
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> > 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.
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> > "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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