subject: Mobile jammers – a boon or a bane? [print this page] Mobile jammers a boon or a bane? Mobile jammers a boon or a bane?
At least once in your life, you must have either been to a dreary events, or a big meeting involving hundreds of people or to a talk sessions by gurus of some sort or the other, where you can't budge an inch, can't pass a smile to the pretty woman at the table across and definitely can't yawn! And it is needless to say that at such a life-risking occasion, your only survival kit, you think, is your mobile phone. But what do you do if those cruel organizers already know about your kit and have installed a mobile phone jammer?
Mobile jammers are devices that are used to create a disconnection between the mobile phones and their base signal station. Basically, the mobile phone sends out certain radio frequencies to the base station. These mobile jammers send out similar frequencies to the mobile to disrupt its connection with the network provider. But this is not so simple. The cell phone jammers have to mess with the two-way communication of signals from the tower to the cell phone and from the cell phone to the tower. In such cases, the mobile phone network appears out of range.
The modern form of cell phone signal jammers are portable systems. They use wireless detectors that through the use of antenna detect the cell phone and to obstruct its functioning. Such jammers could be handheld that can be easily put inside a pocket or a handbag. These are the usual low power consuming cell mobile jammers.
The high power mobile jammers are the ones that are especially designed for prison and other government and military areas where cell phone use is strictly prohibited. Military and other defense organizations also use GPS jammers during military conflict to confuse the enemy about their exact location or to detect where the enemy's GPS guided ammunition like bomb/missile will fall. However, some civilians do use GPS jammers in order to be able to conceal themselves or their vehicle, in the case it is being tracked by a GPS receiver.
A mobile phone jammer is a creation of science that could be a part of the never-ending debate whether it is a bane or a boon. Using cell phone jammers have helped in controlling situations that could have been hyped up by the use of cell phone. E.g. situations of a national tragedy like the twin tower crashing in the US. The government used mobile jammers to control the situation where people started calling each other up in a frantic!
But, the use of every invention should be done with right intention. Sometimes mobile jammers have been used in a wrong way. In fact, in a lot of countries across the world, using mobile jammer is a serious offence by the law. And if you know of this facility being used in the wrong ways by someone, you should immediately report it to the authorities.
