You dont think at least one US telco had the leadership and legal insight to look at what the NSA requested and saw many legal questions?
http://au.businessinsider.com/the-story-of-joseph-nacchio-and-the-nsa-2013-6
Note what happens to the person if you say just say yes or ....
Lawyers and lots of money will not save a person from a ~80-90+% US http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviction_rate
http://cryptome.org/mayer-016.pdf
ie you dont start with questions about warrant or subpoena, criminal activity?
"...to assert that its wireless, wireline and internet businesses gave no customer phone records or call data to the NSA.""
Terms like "Call Monitoring Center for the Exclusive Use of the NSA."
"The NSA program was initially conceived at least one year prior to 2001"
Would you like your brand linked into something called "Groundbreaker Enterprise System"?
How long do you think you can hold out for warrants issued by a court under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act or an opinion of the Attorney General holding that any program your telco enters into is lawful?

Re: how would you know if any of it is true?
You can follow the US interest in digital file databasing at any cost vs the GCHQ having to use card indexes into the early in 1970's
You can follow the US interest in voice to text conversion at any cost.
You can follow the US interest in early digital voiceprint collection and databasing.
What other parts of the world could only hope/dream to use on high-grade Soviet communications the USA now turns inwards.
Read up on Solo, Harvest -automated tape library, the fun of having the IBM System 360...
'COINS' (Community On-line Intelligence System) from the mid 1960's should give most computer people an idea where the USA was heading...
ie a shared database for many in the US intelligence community - sounds almost cloud like ;)
The poor UK had to wait a few years to start with its Automatic Data Processing efforts.
The Intelsat (international satellite telephone calls) efforts at Goonhilly Downs -CSO Morwenstow,/GCHQ Bude got every keyword of interest in the late 1960's.

Lets go down the 2009 list:
Argentina/Brazil - they should know what the GCHQ did in the Falklands war and the great telco help the NSA/CIA gave during the 1970's dirty war...
Canada/Australia/South Korea/Turkey - the GCHQ/NSA's helpers should have been very aware of what the USA and GCHQ can do...
China - did they really just forget the GCHQ efforts in Okinawa, Little Sai Wan?
France, Italy, Germany - in NATO - they should know what the NSA and GCHQ did to them .... and their trade deals
India- recall Perkar on Ceylon?
Indonesia - did they forget what Singapore gave the GCHQ in the past?
Japan -GCHQ efforts in Okinawa?
Mexico - recall the Security Council efforts re Iraq?
Russia -FSB has unique insight into all of the UK efforts :)
Saudi Arabia - did they not recall the GCHQ's efforts in the Yemen Civil War?
South Africa -recall Silvermine?
Why would any of the above with generation awareness of working with or been under GCHQ collections methods really just let their staff wonder over to 'free' wifi in a foreign country and chat with home?
Are they really unaware of email interception programmes and key-logging software?
Did they not understand the help Canada based hardware and software firms must give the GCHQ/NSA- thats the CSEC or CSE...
Or do they bring teams dedicated in generating junk that the GCHQ passes onto their masters and everybody is happy :)

Many may not have a huge traction in that part of the world or be interceptable with expensive commercial solutions.
Other companies might have demonstrated how their messages and emails are exchanged and thus encrypted communications are now available to regional security agencies.

I feel the facts seem all to easy to understand and are now public:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57589495-38/nsa-admits-listening-to-u.s-phone-calls-without-warrants/
US domestic phone call could be accessed "simply based on an analyst deciding that." seems simple enough.
""to listen to the phone," an analyst's decision is sufficient, without any other legal authorization required" seems simple enough.
"in case an analyst needed to access the recordings in the future" seems simple enough to understand too...
"whether they originate within the country or overseas." ..."contents of the communications"
Re American people and the rest of the world:
The rest of the world seemed pretty understanding too:
http://www.smh.com.au/national/asio-chief-warns-of-business-espionage-20120820-24ioc.html Recall the past?
http://www.businessspectator.com.au/article/2013/2/13/technology/patriot-act-and-cloud
"'The United States also places stringent restrictions on the extraterritorial collection of data by law enforcement." "... Such requests are vetted at high levels within the Department of Justice and can be challenged in court."

Then change what you do if you can. If you feel the brands were secretly helping the gov try:
If you helped code for the above in a public, open source way, exit and leave a public note for other top developers/users as to Why you are stopping.
If you where going to buy their hardware, tell the world Why you are not buying their hardware anymore.
If their "suit" has the audacity to talk of privacy, tell the world Why you are not buying into their marketspeak anymore.
See a review of any new product in an open review site - drop a polite note about your insights into the products gov spying potential.
Sites that the Average Jane and Joe read...
Please note the above can put you on travel bans, work bans ...

In other words more people will be aware of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_CHAOS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MERRIMAC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_RESISTANCE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Core
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/04/18/patriot_games
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_SHAMROCK (just an exercise ;) )
later http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MINARET
A nice chilling effect on any protesting, politics.
The problem with RSA1024 on everything is the US gov will still have the tame US based OS makers, cell phone hardware as you enter your message before it hits any encryption efforts.
Also recall Total Information Awareness, Room 641A, Romas/COIN later Odyssey where also pointers to a public private partnership.
What the State cant get, they will buy in wholesale.
Its like been given a cheap rebadged Enigma unit in 1946 by the UK....safe for any diplomacy and commerce

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-57440895-501465/new-york-lawmakers-propose-ban-on-anonymous-online-comments/
This will ensure only comments that support that the USA promotes internet freedom will stay up on some US forums.
i.e. a proper balance between security and privacy.
"A web site administrator upon request shall remove any comments posted on his or her web site by an anonymous poster unless such anonymous poster agrees to attach his or her name to the post and confirms that his or her IP address, legal name, and home address are accurate."