"Legal intercept requirements cost money for the incumbents. Telcos have substantial legal intercept requirements in all markets." Shouldn't cost much at all.

"Legal intercept requirements cost money for the incumbents. Telcos have substantial legal intercept requirements in all markets." Shouldn't cost much at all. I'm assuming they have servers or appliances for monitoring anyway at the points they'd likely implement LE. They just have to use them for it. Many of the U.S. telcos also charge a fee for police monitoring per PDF's on cryptome. The prices looked like they could buy new servers or monitoring gear every time a request happen plus the smaller cost of processing it. I think the L.E. cost is inflated by the companies being heavyweights that inflate cost of most things. It could be optimized like monitoring is at smaller firms.