An incomplete PQ answer

[Ian Batten]

On 5 Aug 2008, at 01:43, IPTV wrote:

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>> So why all the extra cash...?
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>> ian
>
> The phone companies love to make profits.   They charge the cops  
> exorbitant sums for wee bits of data like a day's cellsite tables.    
> So I'd factor in very large greed multiplier, which may confound a  
> simple data assessment.

That may set the price that a telco might demand for discharging its  
legal and regulatory obligations.  It doesn't, however, set the price  
that the government has to pay (which could, in fact, be zero).  It  
would be interesting to know how the eventual payment --- which should  
just be cost recovery --- is arbitrated.

ian