Feds, state officials fight over cell phone jamming test
Austin American-Statesman - Austin, TX, USA By Mike Ward
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Dec. 17, 2008
A war of words erupted Tuesday over an aborted plan to test cell phone jamming gear at a state prison, as federal officials "encouraged" state officials to go ahead with the controversial test and state officials accused a federal agency of flip-flopping on the legality....
Test to jam prison cell phones scuttled
Austin American-Statesman - Austin, TX, USA By Mike Ward
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Dec. 16, 2008
Officials say they fear demonstration would violate federal law.
State prison officials on Monday abruptly canceled a much-ballyhooed test of electronic jamming technology designed to curb an epidemic of smuggled cell phones in prisons...
CellAntenna SC Prison Cell Phone Jamming Demonstration,
RIDGEVILLE, November 21, 2008. CellAntenna CEO - Howard Melamed.
Jamming on the inside
Corrections.com -Quincy, MA,USA-
Dec. 8, 2008
In an attempt to avoid these incidents, South Carolina is taking steps towards preventing inmates from even getting a call through the prison walls, ...
Jam cell phones in prisons
Charleston Post Courier - Charleston, SC,USA-
Dec. 8, 2008
All but one phone was rendered unusable by the jammer, and CellAntenna indicated only a tweak was needed to block the last one, too. ...
Trying to Keep Cell Phones Out of Prison
Time Magazine, By Hilary Hylton / Austin- Nov 26, 2008
Prison authorities used to have almost complete control over an inmate's ability to communicate with the outside world. By checking their mail and parceling out telephone access — at scheduled times on easily and legally tapped landlines — communication for inmates was difficult and often expensive (their families had to pay for the hefty collect calls, usually the only kind allowed in jail).
Cell Jamming Company Plans Series of
Demonstrations Across the U.S.
Communication Daily- Nov 25, 2008
CellAntenna conducted what it said was the first test of
cell jamming equipment Friday at a U.S. state prison at the Lieber
Correctional Institution in South Carolina. CellAntenna CEO
Howard Melamed told us Monday that more tests are planned in
other states, starting with Texas.
CellAntenna and South Carolina Department of Corrections Hold Successful "Cell Phone" Jamming Demonstration
Open PR,
Coral Springs, FL- Nov 24, 2008
CellAntenna Corporation and the South Carolina Department of Corrections held a successful “cell phone” jamming demonstration on Friday, November 21, 2008 at the Lieber Correctional Institution outside of Charleston, South Carolina. The South Carolina Department of Corrections and correction’s facilities nationally are confronted with a growing threat to the safety and security of the public and corrections’ staff – unauthorized use of cell phones in prisons.
Prison will test cell phone jamming device
United Press International - USA
18 test by CellAntenna Corp. will take place less than a month after a
similar one at a South Carolina prison, the Austin American-Statesman
reported
CTIA Unsuccessfully Tried to Petition Governor for Stay of ...
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) - Wien, Austria
Coral Springs, FL/November 24, 2008 - CellAntenna Corporation and
the South Carolina Department of Corrections held a successful 'cell
phone' jamming
Texas prison officials plan to test cell-phone jammers
Houston Chronicle - United States
Texas prison officials say they have invited Florida-based
communications company CellAntenna Corp. to tests its jamming technology
on Dec.
To jam or not to jam
Urgent Communication, By Lynnette Luna
November 19 2008—I first met Howard Melamed in 2005 during the APCO show in Denver. He was already deep into his one-man crusade to urge the FCC to allow public safety to use jamming devices to ward off the dangers of cell-phone-triggered explosives.
Prison Plans to Shackle Cellphones
Wall Street Journal - USA
"A jamming system on the scale of South Carolina's plans
typically costs $100000 to $150000", said Howard Melamed, CellAntenna's chief executive. ...
Aiken
Standard - Prison hosts cell phone
jamming demonstration
Nov 21, 2008 South Carolina Corrections Director Jon Ozmint invited a company that makes and You don't even have to jam the whole prison Melamed...
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Nov 22, 2008
... "We only jam areas that we have to," said Melamed,... Zack Kendall, a
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Prison Cell Phone Jamming Demonstration Conducted | WJBF
Nov 21, 2008 SC Prison Cell Phone Demonstration Conducted... Howard
Melamed, CEO of CellAntenna, says the technology will not interfere
with ...
SC
prison hosts cell phone jamming demonstration - State
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Nov 21, 2008
... RIDGEVILLE,
S.C. -- Despite a federal law against
jamming cell phone
signals, ... "You don't even have to
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prison."
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SC prison hosts cell phone
jamming demonstration. By MEG KINNARD
... Melamed, who sells his equipment to
prison systems around
the world, said Friday's ...
Prison
hosts novel demonstration - Local - Myrtle Beach Online
Nov 22, 2008
... "You don't even
have to jam the whole
prison."
Melamed, who sells
... equipment to corrections systems soon, starting with
South
Carolina. ...
State prison blames cell phones for escapes - CNN.com
South Carolina
might already have started jamming cell phone signals in prisons
... sure the light doesn't spread outside of a certain area,"
Melamed said.
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Banning
Cells in Cells
WCIV - Charleston,SC,USA
But help could be on the way, today the
CellAntenna Company
showed off their cell phone jamming technology inside Lieber
Correctional Institution. ...
State to seek OK on jamming prison cell phones
Greenville News -
Greenville, SC,USA
The vendor behind Friday's demonstration,
CellAntenna Corp., has
petitioned the FCC to allow state and local authorities to use the
technology, ...
Prison hosts cell phone jamming demonstration
Aiken Standard
(subscription) - Aiken, SC, USA
Jim DeMint's office watched as
CellAntenna Corp. CEO Howard
Melamed flipped a switch on a black, briefcase-sized device. When the
equipment began to whir ...
Cell Phone Jamming
WJBF-TV - Augusta,GA,USA
To prove that’s not true, Ozmint set up a demonstration with
CellAntenna Corporation, which makes the briefcase-size jammer.
Inside a building at Lieber ...
FCC
offers prison boss phone jamming help
Register -
London,England,UK
... currently restricted to federal authorities and has offered
to demonstrate how the technology can be applied using equipment
supplied by CellAntenna.
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