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Mississippi to deploy system to thwart illegal cell-phone use

Sep 2, 2010 5:35 PM, By Donny Jackson

A managed-access system designed to prevent prison inmates from making illegal cell-phone transmissions will be demonstrated at the state penitentiary....

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August 2010 issue of Urgent Communications

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Commentary & Analysis

Sometimes you don't know whether to laugh or cry

By Glenn Bischoff

A report released last month by Sens. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) identified the 100 stimulus projects that they believe to be the biggest wastes of taxpayer money. I skimmed through the report, and it is difficult to take issue with their findings. ...



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Arresting developments

By Donny Jackson (donald.jackson@penton.com)

Inmates are using contraband cell phones to keep their criminal enterprises going strong. Technology exists to stop the practice, but legal and interference issues hinder implementation....


Off to a good start

It's early in the evolutionary cycle, but multiband radios already are having a positive effect on interoperability....

Survival of the fittest

Extreme site-hardening tactics help tower owners handle most of what nature and mankind dish out....

Watch your step

The path to disaster communications is strewn with plenty of rocks that will trip you up if you're not careful....

Seeing is believing

Video surveillance provides vital information to assist California forestry department in battling wildfires....

Let's get started

Once user needs and resources are understood, system engineering begins with RF planning....


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