From the Rocky Mountain News:
The Democratic National Convention Committee named AT&T this morning as the official wireless service provider for the party’s convention in August.
AT&T’s agreement with the DNCC will require it to provide smart devices, hardware, software and air cards that allow direct connection to the Internet.
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The deal comes a couple of weeks after Denver-based Qwest was named by the DNCC as the official telecommunications provider for the convention.
Stupid question alert: why can’t the official telecommunications provider also provide the official wireless service? AT&T is a telecommunications provider too, yes?
Not as stupid question alert: What I want to know is, how much is AT&T getting for the service they’re providing and will information about the communications that occur during the August 25-28 event, or the communications themselves that are passed between all the attendees be information that the U.S. government might at sometime want AT&T to hand over?
What rules for privacy will prevail?