Recently a Florida man was caught driving around with a cell phone jammer engaged during his daily commute. Apparently, he had been jamming cell phone signals for two years. He was using the device because he thought that his fellow drivers should be focused on the road, not their phones.
Over a year ago, Metro PCS notified the Federal Trade Commission there was an outage on a certain patch of Interstate 4 and downtown Tampa each day. The FTC found that the signal was coming from a blue Toyota Highlander.
Jason R. Humphrey was not caught for another year after the FTC identified the source of the signal. When he was pulled over by the police, they noticed that their two way radios lost their connection to their dispatcher as they approached the vehicle, and Mr. Humphrey was arrested.
It is illegal to own, sell or use cell phone jammers without the government’s permission in the United States. When you use cell phone jammers, you are not only stopping signals to cell phones but to other vital services.
As illustrated in the story above you are not only stopping cell signals, you are blocking radio frequencies that emergency services use as well. Cell phone jammers can stop signals to police dispatch. Cell phone jammers can also block your home or business alarm signal from reaching Central Station.
Cell phone jammers work by sending out a signal on the same frequency as mobile phone calls in the area. The signals from cell phone jammers is louder than other signals and prevents phones from connecting to cell phone towers.
A potential criminal could use a cell phone jammer when breaking into a home. Many alarm companies transmit their alarm signal on the same frequency that cell phones use. So a potential criminal could use a jammer to prevent the alarm company from knowing that a house has been broken into.
However, a criminal could not use a cell phone jammer to stop All Island Security from receiving your alarm signal. If your alarm system is tripped, All Island Security’s signal is sent to their central office through proprietary FCC licensed radio frequencies. You cannot jam FCC proprietary licensed radio frequencies with cell phone jammers.
Your home is safer with an All Island Security system because a criminal cannot stop a signal from being sent to us by using cell phone jammers. We offer security that is second to none. To learn more about securing your home and family, please contact us.
