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Press Release

By Howard Melamed | Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Topic: “The World Is Flat: Expanding your Small Business Overseas.”

Export and Matchmaker Trade Fair and Conference

What: Howard Melamed, CEO and President of CellAntenna Corporation, Author of the book The Science of Opportunity, will be speaking at the upcoming Export and Matchmaker Trade Fair and Conference being held September 14, 2011 in Tampa Florida. The event is being sponsored by U.S. Small Business Administration, Office of International Trade Florida District Export Council, U.S. Department of Commerce, Commercial Service and the Florida Small Business Development Center Network.

Mr. Melamed is the recipient of the 2010 Export Achievement Award from the United States Department of Commerce. Mr. Melamed’s address will highlight how our nation’s small businesses can expand by boosting manufacturing in America and selling their products overseas. CellAntenna has been exporting American products including cell phone signal boosters and cell phone control systems. Mr. Melamed has successfully grown CellAntenna into an exporter to more than 38 countries.

Who: Howard Melamed, CEO and president of CellAntenna Corporation, a multinational telecommunications company, is an expert in cellular technology. He is a frequent speaker at conferences around the world.

Where: Wyndham Tampa Westshore Hotel 700 North Westshore Boulevard Tampa, Florida 33609 (813) 289-8200

When: Howard Melamed will be speaking on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 12:45 PM.

Press Release

By Howard Melamed | Tuesday, September 07, 2011

Rule Change Facilitates Cooperation between Cell Phone Carriers and Law Enforcement: Essential to Solve the Problem of Cell Phones In Prisons

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CellAntenna Corporation announced that they have filed a petition to have illegal cell phones in a prison that are electronically detected and identified, unsubscribed by the cellular carriers. The petition requests that the FCC define rules for how law enforcement and cellular carriers can help curtail the illegal use of cell phones in prisons by criminals.

Illegal cell phones in prisons are a security threat to law enforcement and the general public. This position will no doubt be confirmed by a report due out this week by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). All too often the inmate obtains a smuggled cell phone and uses it to continue their crime behind bars. No matter how vigilant correctional officers are the infiltration of cell phones has escalated to pandemic proportions – with hundreds of thousands of cell phones found annually in our nation’s prisons. Although jamming technology would be the most cost effective way to solve the problem, current laws prevent its deployment. Other methods including managed access can be easily defeated and are unaffordable for local and state departments of corrections.

CellAntenna has perfected an affordable and practical technology to stem the problem. CellAntenna’s Guardian Service detects and identifies individual cell phones and the carriers they are attached to in a targeted area and creates a simple list that can be sent to the carriers by the prison authorities. The carrier has only to unsubscribe the cell phone from their system rendering the illegal device useless. The petition filed recognizes that the carrier cooperation is essential to effectively fight the problem illegal cell phones found in prisons.

“In our discussions cellular service providers expressed their desire to help solve the problem of illegal cell phones in the prisons,” stated Howard Melamed CEO of CellAntenna Corp. “Having the FCC provide the framework, by way of our petition assists the carriers and law enforcement officers in protecting the public by thwarting the illegal use of cell phones by criminals.”

CellAntenna in cooperation with Department of Corrections around the country has tested the Guardian Service solution and can attest to the amount of illegal cell phones found in prisons and their specific details. For more information or interviews please contact Priscilla Doyle at (954) 340 7053 ext. 2203.

Read - CellAntenna Petition for Rulemaking

Press Release

By Howard Melamed | Thursday, July 27, 2011

Recently, the WHO, the World Health Organization came out with a statement that Cell Phones may be hazardous to your health. They made this conclusion after they had a conference in which world scientists, doctors etc., examined the data from one study done in Sweden and concluded that despite all of the other years where they could not make a determination, this year they could. Was this politically motivated, where the WHO, the organization that created the scare of h1n1 virus, SARs, and Mad Cow, actually needed some more limelight to become relevant or is this real possibility, that is, Cell Phones used for long periods of time can cause tumors in the brain? In looking at the study, several key facts come out of it. Some of them are based on their assumptions and some as well that are based on logic

Where is that danged antenna located?

A short time ago, cell phones had a small telescopic antenna that you could raise or lower. This migrated to small stub fixed antennas located at the top of your cell phone, and then off to what is now used predominantly which is a "Patch" antenna, a small wafer about 1" x 1/2 " in size placed behind the back cover of your phone ( not the batter cover). These patch antennas work almost as well as the telescopic ones, but inherently are not as efficient. This means that "Not all cell phones are created equal". That is to say different cell phones produce different power levels.

More importantly there are cell phone that have their antenna located behind the ear piece of the cell phone, and others that are located behind the microphone, or mouth piece. There was no distinction made between these two cases. There should be. Close proximity to the area behind the ear and above, energy transmitted by the cell phone has a higher intensity than that transmitted by the antenna behind the mouth piece. For the signal to travel into the brain area, the signal must pass through the jawbone, the moisture of the mouth, and on to the brain. The energy of the cell phone at 5" from the antenna we can be measured with the spectrum analyzers we have and it was 10 dB or ten times less than that of the energy directly at the ear.

iPhones for example have the antenna located surrounding the cell phone from the right side over the top to the left side. The energy is distributed among a path of approximately 6". No study was done to determine whether the distribution of the energy over the 6" was different than coming from a patch antenna 1" x " in size. Blackberry and most Androids have the antenna located in the bottom of the phone at the back. Again, the signal would have to travel through the phone and then through the jawbone. Similar with Motorola razors, the flip phones where the antenna is located near the mouth piece.

Certainly not all cell phones are created equal.

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By Mike Ward | Thursday, March 24, 2011, 03:33 PM

Conceptual tests of high-tech gear at a Beaumont prison to check its effectiveness in curbing smuggled cell phones were successful, and officials said today that they expect to move ahead to consider possibly buying the technology.

After a convict used a smuggled phone to orchestrate his escape earlier this month, prison officials had arranged for the demonstration at the Stiles Unit — the first tests conducted in a Texas prison — as a prelude to possibly purchasing phone-detecting gear or managed-access equipment.

Michelle Lyons, spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in Huntsville, said this afternoon that CellAntenna officials demonstrated equipment that can pinpoint the location of cell phones in prisons. They also conceptually discussed cell-phone jamming technology and so-called “managed access” equipment that intercepts outgoing calls and rings through only calls from approved numbers.

“Jamming is not an option because it is prohibited by federal law, but there are other options that are legal that could benefit the prison system in eradicating cell phones,” she said. Lyons said officials are still examining the test results, which she said “will certainly assist us in evaluating the next step.”

The Stiles Unit remains on lockdown, and officials are continuing a cell-by-cell search for smuggled phones and other contraband. As of Thursday, Lyons said, nine cell phones had been found as a results of the searches in the 2,800-convict lockup just outside Beaumont.

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