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Subject: German Authorities Find Illegal Phone Networks
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A note in the February 23 issue of {The Economist} reported the German
postal ministry discovered 23 illegal, private telephone networks in
eastern Germany, including one formerly controlled by the secret
police, the Stasi.  And yet, because of a shortage of telephone lines
in the old east, and even though the government has a legal monopoly,
it will allow the networks to go on operating for at least another
year.