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. + -[___]os:45 AM 5/30/2002, Intemet Policy News Page9of9 6 -5 bI7c -5 at the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association. "Carriers will be sensitive to spam." Altschul said the industry backed the 911 amendment, which forced the "opt-in" embrace. The debate about privacy, he said, is just starting to heat up now because most of the services that would take advantage of location information haven't been deployed yet. The industry has been involved with the larger online privacy debate, in which those advocating "opt-in" and those backing "opt-out" regulatory regimes are at odds, mainly to make sure that regulations that might make sense for computers - but not necessarily cell phones - don't apply to cell phones. "So when people are talking about various requirement and scrolling notices, they recognize that unique differences that wireless and wireline devices have," Altschul said. "A privacy statement on an opening screen, if you are using a handheld device, is not an efficient or satisfactory way for the consumer or the industry to provide notice of privacy.” wR (for internal use only) KK RK RK WorldCom Public Relations b6 -5 b7c -5 FBI(19-cv-1495)-2160