Reply #13: Here's more on NeuStar: tracks cellphone calls in 210 countries

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Here it is, guys. Give you a dollar for a dime, NeuStar is a private sector front for the NSA. How could they resist? Look at this:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/27/AR2005092701709.html
NeuStar to Oversee Global Database Contract
Management Deal May Link Mobile-Phone Users in 210 Countries, Territories

By Arshad Mohammed
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 28, 2005; Page D05

NeuStar Inc. of Sterling won a contract to manage a database that may eventually allow more than 1.5 billion people around the world to send each other e-mail, pictures and video on their mobile phones. The deal, which NeuStar officials said is to be announced in Singapore today, positions the company to move into what is expected to be the high-growth area of exchanging data over wireless devices.

Under an agreement with the GSM Association, a trade group, NeuStar will operate the address databases that direct the flow of content for more than 680 GSM mobile-phone operators in about 210 countries and territories. GSM, the Global System for Mobile Communications, is the most popular mobile-phone technology abroad and is used by U.S. carriers Cingular Wireless and T-Mobile.

At its simplest, the database would help identify the mobile phones on a GSM network that are sending or receiving video, e-mail or photos and route the data to and from the intended devices.