DC Jail to Test Cellphone Jammer
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The DC Jail will be testing a new cellphone jammer they want to install inside the facility to prohibit unauthorized wireless calls from prisoners. The FCC has permitted a short test tomorrow, but demonstrate some skepticism (PDF) that the jammer will really only work inside the facility and not on nearby cellphones.
The 30-minute test will take place some time between 11:30 and 1pm tomorrow. If your cell cuts out, blame the jail. Or sunspots. Or neutron radiation. Or AT&T. It’s probably their fault anyhow.
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4 Responses to “DC Jail to Test Cellphone Jammer”
January 7th, 2009 at 9:08 am
Actually you can’t blame sunspots because we haven’t had any in nearly a month.
January 7th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
You could blame *lack* of sunspots… we are in one of the longer solar minima periods that we’ve ever observed. Very interesting stuff.
January 7th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
[...] Tom reported earlier, DC is going to test a system to jam cell phone signals coming from one of the DC [...]
January 7th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
Such a shame that FCC does not recognize the need for jammers in prisons and just let it happen. Inmates probably have better reception and less dead spots than the rest of us.