Sir, Tony Jackson finds it 'increasingly difficult to unscramble' the output of services from those of manufacturing ('The incredible shrinking industrial base', November 16).
If completed, Cilva's takeover might eventually unscramble the complex sell-off of Avis Europe.
Most programming is now scrambled, so a dish owner must purchase a decoder costing about $400 to unscramble the signals.
Agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Customs Service used information from banks used by the cartel in eight foreign countries to unscramble the complex web of financial transactions.
But the FCC estimates as many as half the decoder owners unscramble the signals for free by altering their decoders with computer boards purchased from satellite-dish dealers or through the mail.
Snoopers can be thwarted, but to do so requires packing special electronics, which scramble and unscramble radio waves, into a cellular phone set.
The Federal Communications Commission began investigations of 19 small companies that allegedly sell equipment enabling satellite dish owners to illicitly unscramble satellite-delivered programming for free.
"The bottom line is that Social Security will unscramble this egg, but we did not lay it," Ms. King said.
The U.S. companies are working with the Japanese to develop chips for "decoders," boxes that unscramble transmission signals into TV pictures.