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Mexican churches jam cellphones
Fed up with cellphones ringing during Mass, four Catholic churches in Monterrey, Mexico, are taking extreme measures to silence them. And no, it doesn't involve lightning bolts from heaven, according to The Arizona Republic via Archinect. "The four churches are illegally jamming cellphone signals with Israeli-made transmitters, the same kind used to protect embassies and presidential motorcades from bugs and bombs detonated by phone. Jamming cellphones is illegal in Mexico, the United States and most other Western countries. But Mexico's Federal Telecommunications Commission has looked the other way as the churches quietly confound their parishioners' Motorolas and Nokias." Related: In 2002, A Spanish priest fed up with mobile phones ringing during Mass installed an electronic jammer to keep his flock in tune with God. cf Ananova via La Chronique SMS du 29.mars, 2002 "The Reverend Francisco Llopis, pastor of the Church of the Defenseless, in Moraira, south east Spain, said the phones' rings are incompatible with quiet worship. Rev Llopis's church is the first in the country to install such a device, which transmits low-power radio signals that sever communications between mobiles and their base stations." |
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