CellAntenna Offers To Demonstrate Cell Phone Jamming For Congress

July 16, 2009 - PRLog -- – CellAntenna Corporation announces that it is willing to hold a demonstration for the United States Senate Commerce Committee proving the effectiveness of cell phone jamming.  The Senate Commerce Committee is currently holding hearings on the Safe Prisons Communications Act of 2009 that would allow law enforcement to use jamming equipment to combat the growing pandemic of illegal cell phones in prisons.  Current federal law prohibits state and local agencies from using jamming equipment. CellAntenna has demonstrated in the past that its jamming equipment can with complete accuracy block illegal cell phones without disrupting prison communications and outside communications.  Correctional officials across the nation favor using jamming to block illegal cell phones used in prisons by inmates.  CellAntenna has been leading efforts to change the law.

“I would welcome the opportunity to demonstrate to the Senate Commerce Committee how cell phone jamming works and can assist law enforcement in its war against crime,” said Howard Melamed, President and CEO of CellAntenna Corporation.  “As the Senate weigh the merits of cell phone jamming, I believe that it can best make a decision by seeing in person how cell phone jamming works and can assist correctional officers across the nation.

“It is time we put an end to the flawed flat world attitude being promoted by those opposed to jamming” stated Howard Melamed “ Congress and the public need to be given all of the facts before they can come to the right conclusion, that is, surgical jamming in a prison can be engineered so it does not pose a threat to legal communication in the surrounding community, and that it does not affect public safety frequencies.

CellAntenna is suggesting that the test of technology be held in a federal prison, since the 1934 Communications Act allows the federal government access to jamming equipment and as such, believes that it would not require the approval of the FCC.  

Illegal cell phones smuggled into prisons or thrown over prison fences for retrieval by inmates is on the rise across the United States with horrendous threats to the public safety.  An inmate in Texas used an illegal cell phone to make death threats against a state senator.  In Baltimore, Maryland, another inmate facing trial and being held at the state’s version of a Super Max prison used an illegal cell phone to order the murder of a prosecution witness.  In addition to these examples illegal cell phones have been used to conduct drug deals and order gang violence from within prison walls.  Correctional officials nationwide have complained that it is nearly impossible to stop the flow of illegal cell phones into prisons.  

Cell phone jamming has been proven to be both cost-efficient and effective with the budget restrictions that affecting state governments and accurate in shutting down cell signals to illegal phones.  Last year, CellAntenna demonstrated for the South Carolina Department of Corrections that full magnitude of what cell phone jamming could achieve without disrupting normal prison operations and outside communications.  The cell phone industry despite this continues along with CTIA oppose CellAntenna and correctional officers in their efforts to authorize cell phone jamming.   CellAntenna hopes that a clear and accurate demonstration for the Senate Commerce Committee of jamming technology will show conclusively what a benefit cell phone jamming will be in ensuring the public’s safety and aiding law enforcement.


About CellAntenna Corporation
Headquartered in Coral Springs, Florida, and offices in England and Poland, CellAntenna Corporation provides packaged, custom, and even rapid deployment cellular repeater systems for residential, commercial, and government use.   The company’s new products provide communication during disasters and where signal enhancement is required for saving lives.  CellAntenna is involved in the limiting of cellular communication in prisons and in areas of high security.  In addition, CellAntenna works on new and innovative applications for its systems and develops new, cutting-edge technologies.  For more information, please visit: www.cellantenna.com.