Wow they really need to redesign the layout on that page. It took me about a minute and a half to realize that this was more than just a blog post about echelon.
The actual files are on the left, in that ~100px wide container.
Here are some brochures from companies that do this stuff:
The Wall Street Journal's Surveillance Catalog, which includes some of the same companies, has a much nicer interface although a lot less information: http://projects.wsj.com/surveillance-catalog/
Those companies don't exactly advertise to everyone nor do they want to. Even if some people were aware of this before I doubt that most were truly aware of the scale.
Even so, if all this does is raise awareness among the average (news watching) people this has already been worthwhile.
It could be that this is an attempt to consolidate that information and push it towards a mass audience. I haven't read any of the files, so I have no idea what they contain.
The actual files are on the left, in that ~100px wide container.
Here are some brochures from companies that do this stuff:
http://wikileaks.org/spyfiles/list/document-type/brochure.ht...
(The 3G thing is the only part of this that is really surprising. Intercepting wifi isn't really that impressive)
Here is a pricelist of some tech that is, I guess, being sold in Europe:
http://wikileaks.org/spyfiles/files/0/204_GRIFFCOMM-200802-P...
(Honestly none of this seems very...leaky. Isn't most of this fairly common knowledge to anybody who even reads about hacker conferences?)