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- 02-20-2005, 10:35 PM #1Linda EvansGuest
SHUT THE CELL UP
By ANGELA MONTEFINISE
February 20, 2005 -- Can you hear me now?
Unsuspecting cellphone users may find themselves saying that
more often now that cellphone jammers — illegal gizmos that
interfere with signals and cut off reception — are selling
like hotcakes on the streets of New York.
"I bought one online, and I love it," said one jammer owner
fed up with the din of dumb conversations and rock-and-roll
ringtones.
"I use it on the bus all the time. I always zap the idiots
who discuss what they want from the Chinese restaurant so
that everyone can hear them. Why is that necessary?"
He added, "I can't throw the phones out the window, so
this is the next best thing."
Online jammer seller Victor McCormack said he's made
"hundreds of sales" to New Yorkers.
"The interest has gone insane in the last few years. I get
all sorts of people buying them, from priests to police officers."
Jammers come in a variety of shapes and sizes, from portable
handhelds that look like cellphones to larger, fixed models
as big as suitcases.
Their sole goal is to zip inconsiderate lips. The smaller
gadgets emit radio frequencies that block signals anywhere
from a 50- to 200-foot radius. They range in price from
$250 to $2,000.
But don't expect to find jammers at the local Radio Shack —
they're against Federal Communications Commission regulations
because they interfere with emergency calls and the public
airwaves. They are illegal to buy, sell, use, import or advertise.
A violation means an $11,000 fine, but the FCC's Enforcement
Bureau has yet to bust one person anywhere in the country.
"This is not a crime that they're going after," said Rob
Bernstein, deputy editor at New York City-based Sync magazine.
He said jammers are here, and their use is multiplying.
"Right now, there's a growing curiosity about jammers in
the United States and New York," Bernstein said. "There's
no better way to shut up a loudmouth on the phone, so
people definitely want them and are finding ways to get them."
One way is at a spy shop on Third Avenue, which sells
medium-sized jammers out of a back room for $1,500. The
sales clerk there said he had sold jammers to a 50-year-old
man who bought one to use on the Long Island Rail Road, and to
restaurateurs.
Folks who run auto auctions also buy them to stop people from
chit-chatting about prices and rigging their bids, the clerk said.
An employee at a West Village spy store said the shop also
sells jammers, but only to people from other countries.
One local purchaser bought a portable jammer last year, and
said he likes using it at Roosevelt Field mall on Long Island.
"One time I followed this guy around for 20 minutes," he
said. "I kept zapping him and zapping him, until finally he
threw the phone on the floor. I couldn't stop laughing. It
was so cool."
Jammers were first developed to help government security
forces avert eavesdropping and thwart phone-triggered bombings.
But by the late 1990s they were being sold to the public.
There are suspicions that some hotel chains employ jammers to
cut down on guests' cellphone use and boost in-room phone charges.
With additional reporting by Lindsay Powers and Marianne Garvey.
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- 02-21-2005, 01:21 AM #2NoneHereGuest
Re: SHUT THE CELL UP !
Please before you try and call 911 for me would you turn off my cell phone
jammer.
- 02-21-2005, 09:03 AM #3CellGuyGuest
Re: SHUT THE CELL UP !
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 23:35:50 -0500, Linda Evans wrote:
> There are suspicions that some hotel chains employ jammers to
> cut down on guests' cellphone use and boost in-room phone charges.
Boy, I'd love to catch one doing this. I'm sure the FCC would go after the
big money here. Plus, they would kiss a lot of their business trade goodby.
There are WiFi signal detectors available to find hotspots. I'm sure
someone will come up with a cellphone jammer detector so you can find out
who's doing the deed.
- 02-21-2005, 09:41 AM #4SkiGuest
Re: SHUT THE CELL UP !
Spam spam spam spam
>
>> There are suspicions that some hotel chains employ jammers to
>> cut down on guests' cellphone use and boost in-room phone charges.
>
> Boy, I'd love to catch one doing this. I'm sure the FCC would go
> after the big money here. Plus, they would kiss a lot of their
> business trade goodby.
>
> There are WiFi signal detectors available to find hotspots. I'm sure
> someone will come up with a cellphone jammer detector so you can find
> out who's doing the deed.
>
- 02-21-2005, 10:26 AM #5GeorgeGuest
Re: SHUT THE CELL UP !
"CellGuy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 23:35:50 -0500, Linda Evans wrote:
>
> > There are suspicions that some hotel chains employ jammers to
> > cut down on guests' cellphone use and boost in-room phone charges.
>
> Boy, I'd love to catch one doing this. I'm sure the FCC would go after
the
> big money here. Plus, they would kiss a lot of their business trade
goodby.
>
> There are WiFi signal detectors available to find hotspots. I'm sure
> someone will come up with a cellphone jammer detector so you can find out
> who's doing the deed.
I agree, after having experienced huge phone bills at hotels because of the
surcharges I would do everything I could to help embarass and prosecute a
hotel keeper who used jammers to force use of their phones.
- 02-21-2005, 02:42 PM #6drewdawgGuest
Re: SHUT THE CELL UP !
In news:[email protected],
Linda Evans <[email protected]> typed:
> SHUT THE CELL UP
>
It's interesting how loud conversation is all of a sudden a *HUGE* problem
when a cell (mobile) phone is involved.
> "I bought one online, and I love it," said one jammer owner
> fed up with the din of dumb conversations and
Must suck for you when no cell phone is involved, eh?
>
> "I use it on the bus all the time. I always zap the idiots
> who discuss what they want from the Chinese restaurant so
> that everyone can hear them. Why is that necessary?"
Must suck for you when two people do the same thing without cell phones!
> He added, "I can't throw the phones out the window, so
> this is the next best thing."
Because GOD FORBID someone should displease you on YOUR BUS! Buy a car you
cheap bastard!
> Online jammer seller Victor McCormack said he's made
> "hundreds of sales" to New Yorkers.
There's a population full of dillusions of grandier!
Opinion given by a cell phone user who "Low talks" whenever he's in public.
- 02-21-2005, 05:41 PM #7KevGuest
Re: SHUT THE CELL UP !
It would be nice to incorporate these into cars so that they jam the
phone when the car is moving thus preventing the driver (usually a
female) from chatting while driving.
- 02-21-2005, 05:47 PM #8Tropical HavenGuest
Re: SHUT THE CELL UP !
> It would be nice to incorporate these into cars so that they jam the
> phone when the car is moving thus preventing the driver (usually a
> female) from chatting while driving.
In that case, we need masquera jammers, makeup jammers, eyeliner
jammers, and of course eating jammers. It may not reduce all
distractions, but it would for almost 50% of the population.
TH
- 02-21-2005, 06:30 PM #9David G. ImberGuest
Re: SHUT THE CELL UP !
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 23:47:07 GMT, Tropical Haven <[email protected]>
wrote:
>In that case, we need masquera jammers, makeup jammers, eyeliner
>jammers, and of course eating jammers. It may not reduce all
>distractions, but it would for almost 50% of the population.
Most of all, we would have to remove radios and cd players, as
they were shown to be the worst distractors.
- 02-21-2005, 06:31 PM #10Tropical HavenGuest
Re: SHUT THE CELL UP !
> Because there is no sidetone people tend to talk much louder on a cellphone
> than a normal conversation. Then there are all of the various beeps and
> ringtones getting our attention with the biggest offenders being people with
> nextel radios with the speakerphone turned on full volume.
Don't worry...with the Sprint-Nextel deal, the number of mobile
customers with access to its push-to-talk service will more than double!!
- 02-21-2005, 06:31 PM #11NotanGuest
Re: SHUT THE CELL UP !
"David G. Imber" wrote:
>
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 23:47:07 GMT, Tropical Haven <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> >In that case, we need masquera jammers, makeup jammers, eyeliner
> >jammers, and of course eating jammers. It may not reduce all
> >distractions, but it would for almost 50% of the population.
>
> Most of all, we would have to remove radios and cd players, as
> they were shown to be the worst distractors.
Don't forget passengers!
Notan
- 02-21-2005, 06:36 PM #12Tropical HavenGuest
Re: SHUT THE CELL UP !
David G. Imber wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 23:47:07 GMT, Tropical Haven <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
>
>>In that case, we need masquera jammers, makeup jammers, eyeliner
>>jammers, and of course eating jammers. It may not reduce all
>>distractions, but it would for almost 50% of the population.
>
>
> Most of all, we would have to remove radios and cd players, as
> they were shown to be the worst distractors.
Actually, it should be mandated that only political activities (senate,
house, et al) be braodcast, that way the people would have a better idea
about what the government is really doing!
- 02-21-2005, 06:55 PM #13cricketGuest
Re: SHUT THE CELL UP !
kid jammers, passanger jammers... electric shaver jammers, newspaper
jammers, notepad jammers, book jammers, radio and cd jammers... and you've
pretty much wiped out all distractions.
"Tropical Haven" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>> It would be nice to incorporate these into cars so that they jam the
>> phone when the car is moving thus preventing the driver (usually a
>> female) from chatting while driving.
>
> In that case, we need masquera jammers, makeup jammers, eyeliner jammers,
> and of course eating jammers. It may not reduce all distractions, but it
> would for almost 50% of the population.
>
> TH
>
- 02-21-2005, 07:11 PM #14David G. ImberGuest
Re: SHUT THE CELL UP !
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 00:36:14 GMT, Tropical Haven <[email protected]>
wrote:
>Actually, it should be mandated that only political activities (senate,
>house, et al) be braodcast, that way the people would have a better idea
>about what the government is really doing!
I think that would divide drivers into two groups: enraged and
asleep. (In other words, it would mirror US society as a whole).
- 02-21-2005, 08:12 PM #15John RichardsGuest
Re: SHUT THE CELL UP !
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 23:35:50 -0500, Linda Evans wrote:
>
> There are suspicions that some hotel chains employ jammers to
> cut down on guests' cellphone use and boost in-room phone charges.
I have noticed bad cell phone reception in many hotel rooms, to
the point of having to walk outside the lobby. I assumed it was
the rebar used in the construction. Active jamming can bring very
heavy FCC fines.
--
John Richards
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