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The overall functionality specified by the FBI to support CALEA that was the subject of debate within the TIA standards bodies included the following:

Law enforcement agencies require access to all electronic communications transmitted from the terminal or directory number of the intercept subject This also includes signaling information such as call identifying information necessary to determine the calling and called parties Law enforcement agencies require real-time and full-time monitoring capability for an intercept subject Law enforcement agencies require provisions for accessing a number of simultaneous intercepts Law enforcement agencies require information from the wireless service providers to verify the association of the intercepted communications with the intercept subject and information on the features and services subscribed to by the intercept subject Law enforcement agencies require wireless service providers to transmit intercepted communications to an external monitoring facility designated by a law enforcement agency Law enforcement agencies require that the reliability and performance standards of the lawfully authorized intercept services be equal to the reliability and performance standards of the telecommunications services provided to the intercept subject Law enforcement agencies require the lawfully authorized interception to be transparent to all parties except the investigative agency requesting the interception and specific individuals involved in implementing the intercept capability

The CALEA legislation references the development of a publicly available standard that fulfills these requirements for wireless law enforcement functionality This standard is informally referred to as safe harbor, meaning that if a standard exists, implementation of that standard would put wireless service providers in automatic compliance with CALEA Noncompliance with CALEA could potentially result in fines to a wireless service provider of up to $10,000 per day while it is noncompliant The TIA standards-making bodies battled with law enforcement authorities for five years before the Lawfully Authorized Electronic Surveillance (J-STD-025) standard was finally developed Most of the debate surrounded the following issues:

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Cost recovery Compliance with CALEA is a very expensive proposition for both equipment manufacturers and wireless service providers Since CALEA is a non revenue-generating function for the service providers, it is unclear how they would recover the costs of implementation and deployment Capacity The standards requirements put forth from the FBI for the number of simultaneous intercepts allowed is considered to be unrealistic In some cases, the requirements specified 1 percent of an MSC s engineered capacity For a switch that supports 100,000 lines, 1,000 simultaneous intercepts was considered to be implausible since, historically, wiretap rates were far fewer Also, the cost of this additional engineering for each MSC in the network was considered to be enormous Privacy concerns Although wireless intercepts would still require a warrant to be performed, the amount and types of access to wireless calls required by the FBI standards was construed to be unrealistic and a potential infringement on personal freedom FBI requirements exceeding CALEA requirements The standards requirements document promulgated by the FBI specified requirements interpreted as being excessive when compared to the CALEA law itself

Finally, in 2000, the TIA published the standard Lawfully Authorized Electronic Surveillance (J-STD-025), nearly six years after CALEA was first enacted The FCC has recognized this standard as a safe harbor However, government law enforcement agencies are still not satisfied and the US Congress and the FCC were petitioned to review the standard Because of this petition and the delayed publication of the standard, CALEA has yet to be implemented and fines have not been levied against wireless service providers Capabilities that law enforcement insisted on, but were not added by the wireless industry to the J-STD-025 standard include:

Access to all conference call parties, including the identity of all parties, and access to conversations occurring when the intercept subject is not connected Transmission of intercept information whenever a party is added, deleted, or placed on hold on a conference call Access to user-controlled signaling, for example DTMF tones that could be used to access long-distance service, enter credit information, or access voice-mail

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