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Mobile Phone Jamming

Mobile Phone Jamming. A Brief Overview by Robert Maine and Robert Cochrane. What is it?. Cell phone jamming is the use of an electronic device to prevent the transferring of data through a wireless phone. Is Jamming useful?. Jammers can be used practically anywhere

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Mobile Phone Jamming

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  1. Mobile Phone Jamming A Brief Overview by Robert Maine and Robert Cochrane

  2. What is it? • Cell phone jamming is the use of an electronic device to prevent the transferring of data through a wireless phone

  3. Is Jamming useful? • Jammers can be used practically anywhere • Jammers are used primarily where silence is necessary or data transfer might be destructive • Jammers are simple to build and use

  4. Why might cell phone use be destructive? • As wireless phones rapidly overtook society in the 21st century, many problems arose with the quick, easy option to transfer data either by voice or files through them such as : Espionage, Exposure of images, Recording conversation or video remotely, Cheating (Academically), etc.

  5. How do they work? • Jammers simply overflow the frequency used by wireless phones with radio waves • Enough interference caused by these waves will prevent communication between a wireless phone and a base tower

  6. Some Jammers are small, hand-held sized devices while others can be very large • Smaller Jammers interfere mostly with the wireless phones themselves while devices with larger radii may interfere with the towers directly

  7. Some Quick Numbers… • Wireless phone network ranges generally from 800-1900Mhz • Small Jammers block all communication in this range for a 30 ft radius • Commercial size Jammers can block all communication for 5 miles

  8. Originally much of the technology associated with jamming was developed for military purposes • A huge part of security in the military is data security; Jamming communications signals locally can prevent the loss of data • Some Law Enforcement agencies use Jammers to prevent criminals from communicating • Law Enforcement and Military both use Jammers for preventing signals from certain kinds of remote explosive detonation devices

  9. Development Over Time • Jammers originally worked on analog signals • Eventually Jamming was necessary on digital networks • Newer Jammers will block AMPS, iDEN, and GSM networks

  10. Can I have one? • Of course not (legally)! Jammers are highly illegal to civilians in the US • Worldwide they are used in Libraries, Banks, Prisons, Hospitals, Churches, Movie theaters, and other places where locals or govt. have deemed wireless phone use more of a problem than a plus

  11. Sources • http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/cell-phone-jammer.htm • http://wireless.fcc.gov/services/index.htm?job=operations_2&id=cellular • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_jammer • http://www.methodshop.com/gadgets/reviews/celljammers/index.shtml

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