Sorry about Off Topic, but there was some discussion of this topic a
while back.

Harold


Cell jammers are being tried in Japan and other places
where Cell Phones are becoming intrusive.

The complete story is at:

http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/technology/story/18733
.html

Shutting Up Cell Phones
by Stewart Taggart

3:00 a.m.  26.Mar.99.PST
If you want to neutralize pesky adversaries in wartime, disrupt their
communications. If you want to do the same in peacetime, disable their
mobile phones. By selling a frequency jammer that prevents mobile-phone
communications over a limited area, an Israeli company has taken a
classic
swords-to-plowshares approach in commercializing a military technology.

Picture the benefits: By silencing all the mobile phones in a restaurant,
movie theater, or concert hall, you can disconnect all those social boors
unwilling to shut off their phones themselves.

"Education, detectors, signs -- all have proven to be ineffective," says
Tammy Neufeld, spokeswoman for Netline Communications Technologies, a Tel
Aviv company that sells jammers. "Cellular phone operators are earning
billions of dollars at the expense of people's quality of life

  .... snip...



Harold Hallikainen
harold@hallikainen.com
Hallikainen & Friends, Inc.
See the FCC Rules at http://hallikainen.com/FccRules and comments filed
in LPFM proceeding at http://hallikainen.com/lpfm

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