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Cinema owners plan to jam cell phones

New Zealand cinema owners may use mobile phone jamming technology to stop mid-movie calls, text messaging -- and cell phone rage among patrons, they said Friday.

If jammers were introduced, people on call for emergencies could leave their mobile phones or pagers at the reception desk, he said.

http://www.salon.com/ent/wire/2005/04/30/p..._jam/index.html

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that will be interesting.....new zealand`s telecommunications sector is one of the most lightly-regulated in the western world..especially when it comes to trying to restrict cellphone useage..... :)

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Cellphone jammers could be introduced in New Zealand cinemas to stop texters and cellphones ringing.

The Motion Pictures Exhibitors Association is looking into the legality of using jammers because of the disruption from cellphones when films screen.

Association executive member Duncan Mackenzie, manager of the Top Town Cinema 3 director in Blenheim, said he was investigating the use of jammers in the 200-member group's cinemas around the country.

The jammers, which would be imported, cost between $500 and $1200 and work by transmitting radio signals on the same frequencies as cellphones.

Cellphones in cinemas were a "huge disruption" to patrons, Mr Mackenzie said.

"Even texting creates so much light, and it's unfair to expect that people should have to put up with it."

Though many felt teenagers were the worst offenders, Mr Mackenzie said they were the most co-operative about turning phones off.

He said the most antagonistic cellphone users he saw were middle aged women who answered their cellphones in cinemas and continued conversations.

They would get "incredibly aggro" if asked to turn their cellphones off or leave.

Mr Mackenzie said "cellphone rage" between patrons could get nasty.

He had to defuse an incident in Blenheim last year when a man threatened to hit two exchange students sitting on opposite sides of te cinema who were texting each other.

Vodafone has expressed concerns in the past that jammers would block signals for legitimate customers living nearby.

But Mr Mackenzie said the equipment the association was looking at would not operate outside the four walls where it was installed.

People on call for emergencies could leave their cellphones or pagers at the reception area, he said.

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Phone companies cool on plan for jammers

The possible introduction of cellphone jammers in cinemas is likely to meet staunch resistance from the telecommunications sector.

The Motion Pictures Exhibitors Association is investigating the legality of using cellphone jammers to put an end to cell phones disrupting movies.

But the idea has met with a frosty response from Telecom and Vodafone who say the technology is an "extreme" solution to the problem.

"We want people to respect the right to go to a movie, but that's not a reason to attack technology rather than the behaviour of the person."

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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1...jectID=10123378

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