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FCC Chairman Brendan Carr announced<\/a> the agency will vote on November 19th on rules that would allow prisons to use signal jamming. Radiofrequency jammers are generally banned<\/a> under Section 333 and the Communications Act of 1934, with few exceptions, and Carr has noted they’ve been permitted for use at some federal facilities already. Carr claims in a statement that jammers are needed because “For years, thousands upon thousands of contraband cellphones have been pouring into prisons, and some of the worst possible offenders have been using them to order hits, coordinate violent gang activity, and aid criminal enterprises.”<\/p>\n

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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 at some federal facilities already. 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