I just read an old story on The Telegraph about how mobile phone jammers are becoming popular in America, which allow their users to cut off other people’s mobile phone calls at the press of a button. Buyers reportedly include restaurateurs, hair salon owners, hoteliers, bus drivers and commuters.
Apparently they are becoming so popular that mobile phone companies are beginining to get worried.I would love to have one of these devices, as I really hate listening to other people screaming down the phone, but I’m pretty sure something like this is illegal in the UK. What I’d prefer though is a device that makes my signal get gradually worse, so that I can occassionally pretend I’ve been cut off!
I seem to remember a company launching a similar service a few years ago, which would create background noise to cover where you really were e.g. if you overslept it would add a train station announcer to the background, so that your boss would think you were stuck in a station, rather than calling from a bedroom!
