Major wireless carriers pushed for Telcordia because of the cost savings, but some intelligence officials have raised national security concerns.
WASHINGTON - The Federal Communications Commission has decided to make a European-owned company the clearinghouse for routing billions of cellphone calls and text messages across the United States, despite claims by critics that the plan poses national security risks, officials said on Thursday.
The F.C.C.'s approval, which has not been publicly announced, will give a New Jersey subsidiary of Ericsson, the Swedish technology giant, the obscure but critical job of operating a sprawling national system to track and route wireless calls and texts among hundreds of service providers.
Haven't we heard enough threats about the big red menace?
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