FYI, Tmob is a defendant named in the EFF suit for illegal wiretapping, along wi...

jamesbritt · on March 21, 2011

Well, they could be lying, but T-mobile has claimed that they did not participate in the NSA program.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12745304/ns/technology_and_scien...

Meanwhile AT&T was up front about rolling over.

Since any telco can legally lie about this, I'm curious why T-Mobile was later added to the initial suit while Qwest was not. I looked around the EFF site but got tired of poking through PDFs and not finding anything to explain that.

count · on March 21, 2011

Joe Nacchio (former Qwest CEO) says Qwest refused to comply and spy on behalf of the NSA, and that cost them contracts: http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20071013/news_1n13ns...

Granted, he's been convicted of insider trading and may be a biased source, but I'd say it's a good indicator that Qwest isn't named as a defendant in the EFF suits.

jamesbritt · on March 22, 2011

T-mobile issued a similar statement, that they did not participate and did not turn over any records. No mention of losing contracts over it.

Hell, maybe AT&T wants to buy T-Mobile to ensure everyone gets spied on equally. Look for an attempt to buy Qwest next. :)