How many times
have you wished you could shut down somebody's cell phone?
You know, the guy with the booming
voice at the next restaurant table. Or the idiot who forgets to
turn off his ringer in the theater. Well, you can shut 'em down.
But for a few hundered bucks you can jam the cell phones around
you by using cell phone signal jammer. Oh, but of course, there's
a catch. Somebody ought to do something about the obnoxious callers
who can't seem to shut the cell up! Somebody has. The Cell-Phone-Jammers
Web site is the purveyors of the cell phone jammer.
For about $320 you can order one
of phone jammer from this Indian company and block calls for 50
feet around you. Even more powerful phone jammers have a range
of about 150 feet. e-mobile's director, Kumaar Thakkar, told that
he has sold about 2,000 phone jammers to Asian customers during
the past two years.
The U.S. military bought cell phone
signal jammers to prevent insurgents from using cell phones to
detonate roadside bombs. Some theater owners reportedly use signal
jammer to maintain peace during movies. Even a few pastors block
calls to keep the faithful focused on the sermon.
For a cell phone to work, it's got
to communicate with a cell phone tower. So long as the signal
can get from the phone to the tower and back again, well, you've
got cell phone conversations. But if you've got a cell phone blocker
jammer it overwhelms the signal from the cell phone tower.
Viola, no more
irritating phone calls. Joe Peschel of Owens Community College
filled NBC24 in on the finer points of cell phone blocker jammer.
Oh, did I mention, in the United States they're illegal. “Possibly,
if you had a call dropped sometime, it'd be the same way,"
Peschel says. "You would not know if a mobile phone signal
jammer was actually jamming a call. It would just say phone is
out of service.
"What if we lock the phones
out and we have an emergency situation where someone has to get
a call out?," he adds. "Or maybe an emergency call comes
into a person?" So the Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) may come knocking on your door if you use a cell phone signal
jammer.
But selling phone jammer, at least
in Asia, is still quite legal.