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Brendan Carr plans to let prisons jam cellphone signals

Brendan Carr plans to let prisons jam cellphone signalsPhoto: The Verge

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr announced the agency will vote on November 19th on rules that would allow prisons to use signal jamming. Radiofrequency jammers are generally banned under Section 333 and the Communications Act of 1934, with few exceptions, and Carr has noted they've been permitted for use

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