Fort Lauderdale, FL (1888PressRelease)
June 27, 2009 - CellAntenna Corporation successfully held a cutting-edge demonstration of its CJAM-CPC, cell phone controller for the Indiana Department of Correction at an Indiana correctional facility as part of its efforts to help law enforcement in its battle against illegal cell phones in prisons.
The CJAM-CPC can detect the quantity of cell phones in a prison, identify their location, and determine which cellular provider the cell phone is connected to, without jamming of signals. A list of each cell phone’s serial number and which cellular provider they are connected to is created. The list can be sent to each cell phone provider asking them to turn the illegal cell phone off. In the Indiana demonstration, CellAntenna’s CJAM-CPC successfully detected and identified contraband cell phones that were being used by inmates. The test was attended by eighteen high-ranking officials of the Indiana Department of Corrections.
The CJAM-CPC is the latest technological advance to combat the escalating problem of illegal cell phones in prisons without using jamming equipment ,” said Howard Melamed, President and CEO of CellAntenna Corporation. “I want to thank Willard Plank, Chief Investigator of Internal Affairs at the Indiana Department of Correction and the entire Indiana Department of Correction for inviting us to hold this demonstration.”
The CJAM-CPC was introduced to the market in May of 2009 to assist law enforcement in combating the use of illegal cell phones in prisons. While cell phoning jamming by law enforcement is illegal in the United States and opposed by the cell phone providers and their membership association, CTIA, the CJAM-CPC is a legal alternative. Indiana is the first state to have tested the CJAM-CPC. With the CJAM-CPC, law enforcement will have a legal way to combat the use of cell phones by inmates in their facilities. The illegal use of cell phones in prisons has increased dramatically in the past years with death threats, murder hits, and drug trafficking all traced back to inmates in local and state correctional facilities.
“Our CJAM system makes good on the promise of the cell carriers pledged by CTIA, that they will do all that is legally allowed to prevent their cell phones from falling into the hands of inmates “ said Melamed “ The cell carriers said they wanted a solution that makes use of technology without jamming . CJAM-CPC is the solution and available to deploy today”.
CellAntenna has been leading a nationwide fight to change the current law to allow cell phone jamming by state and local law enforcement. In this they have been opposed by the cellular phone providers and CTIA, the wireless association. CellAntenna has proved with their equipment that jamming of illegal cell phones in prisons can be done with complete accuracy and is the only comprehensive solution to the problem. Once jamming is legalized, CellAntenna believes the deployment of its CJAM-NF jamming product together with the CJAM-CPC will eliminate the pandemic of cell phone communication by inmates once and for all.
About CellAntenna Corporation
Headquartered in Coral Springs, Florida, and offices in England and Poland, CellAntenna Corporation provides packaged, custom, and even rapid deployment cellular repeater systems for residential, commercial, and government use. The company’s new products provide communication during disasters and where signal enhancement is required for saving lives. CellAntenna is involved in the limiting of cellular communication in prisons and in areas of high security. In addition, CellAntenna works on new and innovative applications for its systems and develops new, cutting-edge technologies.
For more information, please visit: www.cellantenna.com.
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