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Offline ChrisSmolinski

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Local Police Want Right to Jam Wireless Signals
« on: February 01, 2009, 0200 UTC »
As President Obama's motorcade rolled down Pennsylvania Avenue on Inauguration Day, federal authorities deployed a closely held law enforcement tool: equipment that can jam cellphones and other wireless devices to foil remote-controlled bombs, sources said...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/31/AR2009013101548.html
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Re: Local Police Want Right to Jam Wireless Signals
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2009, 0258 UTC »
They've used those up here for political conferences for years. Guess what? They don't work against HAM or CB radio ;D

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Re: Local Police Want Right to Jam Wireless Signals
« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2009, 0003 UTC »
Quote from: ChrisSmolinski on February 01, 2009, 0200 UTC
As President Obama's motorcade rolled down Pennsylvania Avenue on Inauguration Day, federal authorities deployed a closely held law enforcement tool: equipment that can jam cellphones and other wireless devices to foil remote-controlled bombs, sources said...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/31/AR2009013101548.html

It's not a difficult thing to "OOS" (Out Of Service) in Motorola terminology or 'Block' in Ericsson terminology an MTSO MSC (the or a mobile telephone 'switch') from 'carrying traffic': one little command issued from a terminal connected to the IOG (input/output group), something along the lines of: GSBLI:SPM=xxxxx to block and GSBLE:SPM=xxxx to unblock.

A single or a group of individual cell sites can also be blocked/deblocked for security purposes; this was done in Pakistan on a regular basis when Musharif would fly in/out of the capital ...
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Re: Local Police Want Right to Jam Wireless Signals
« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2009, 0159 UTC »
Musharraf was/is a marked man...giving this power to the local fuzz in Amreeka would just be trouble, but Fibbies having it is sorta-maybe OK.
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