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Shut the Cell up!!!
« on: Feb 22^nd, 2005, 10:52am »

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http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/40168.htm

SHUT THE CELL UP

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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Re: Shut the Cell up!!!
« Reply #1 on: Feb 26^th, 2005, 8:36pm »

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I want one!!! I want it to use on that woman who always has her phone on in the movies and insists on answering and talking midway through. I want it for those inconsiderate folks I work with who have their phones on during staff meetings and then answer and talk loudly and don't leave the room.. and I would have LOVED to have one a few weeks ago when we went out for drinks after work. The waiter, honestly, came to our table to bring the extra sour cream my daughter asked for, and was talking on his phone. Tossed the stuff down on the table and kept talking... when I asked for plates for the appetizers (which he should have brought to begin with) he rolled his eyes, nodded and kept on with his conversation... then appeared to be upset when I didn't leave him a tip!! Imagine??

Where can I get this thing?

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« Reply #2 on: Feb 28^th, 2005, 10:07am »

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I don't think you can find one easily yesteach, because they're illegal. :laugh:

That waiter should have been fired! Didn't his manager see him?

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« Reply #3 on: Feb 28^th, 2005, 8:36pm »

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finally folks are using technology sensibly to stop those who are insenstive. I would like one in the ladies locker room"

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on Feb 28^th, 2005, 10:07am, JP wrote:

I don't think you can find one easily yesteach, because they're illegal. :laugh:

That waiter should have been fired! Didn't his manager see him?

No, he didn't see him, and I probably should have called and reported it... I was so angry. What was so amazing was the look on his face when he realized I hadn't left a tip... he truly looked offended and ticked off. Sort of the same look I had when he tossed down our order while he chatted..

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