Theater Owners to Petition FCC to Allow Cellphone Jamming
Thomas Ricker writes in Engadget:
With flat panel prices in free-fall and sizes approaching those anaemic megaplex screens, it’s no wonder the National Association of Theater Owners is in a panic about the decline in consumers willing to slap down a near-sawbuck to watch a flick. What to do? Well, it looks like cellphone jamming is the new baby jeebus in an industry attempt to lure your azz back into their buttery seats. See, NATO (er, yeah) has announced plans to petition the FCC for permission to jam cell phone signals within theatres to “block rude behaviour” – just as the French have already done.
Of course, it’s still ambiguously legal to jam signals passively via special wallpaper or even by constructing theatres with materials embedded with metal fragments. Hell, they could even construct ‘em with thick concrete walls and steel skeletons but then that would also prevent noise bleed from the action thrilla playing next door and cut into their profits, dig?
posted by Fergie @ 12/19/2005 06:07:00 AM
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