Jamming a cell phone is illegal in the U.S. Very illegal. And not just by ordinary citizens. It’s illegal for theater and restaurant owners to jam calls, and even state and local police or prison ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — State officials are urging Congress and the Federal Communications Commission to allow state prisons to use cell phone jamming technology, after several investigations found ...

The company said indiscriminate jamming could interfere with licensed spectrum used by SiriusXM and wireless carriers.

(TCS) — Georgia's attorney general wants a federal agency to lift its ban on cell phone jammers that bars state officials from using the devices to block contraband cell phones in jails and prisons.

A group of illegal immigrants from South America was indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly using construction crew disguises, blowtorches and cellphone jammers, among other "sophisticated ...

ODOC endorses FCC’s plan to curb crime in Oklahoma prisons by jamming smuggled cellphones. The Oklahoma Department of Corrections (ODOC) announces its full support of the proposal from the Federal ...

Robert Johnson was a corrections officer whose job it was to prevent inmates from smuggling cellphones, drugs and other contraband into one of South Carolina’s most violent prisons. But then came the ...

Remember the scene in the fourth “Star Trek” movie in which Spock and Captain Kirk, time-traveling to 20th-century Earth, endure the raucous noise from a punk’s blasting boombox while riding on a ...

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