Russian school attended the acquisition of electronic means of suppressing signal from mobile phones. This edition of 36on.
It is reported that the purchase announced a few educational establishments: gymnasium named after I. A. Bunin, school No. 88, high school of a name of Andrey Platonov, school №38 named after E. A. Bolkhovitinov, school No. 12, school № 3, school № 28, school №5 named. K. P. Feoktistov, gymnasium. academician N. G.Basov at the VSU. In the accompanying documents to the procurement stated that equipment sold for the state final examination.
Order school instruments “alligator-80”, “Hunter 4G LTE” or their analogues. They are able to cause interference on frequencies used by all cellular standards in a radius of 50-100 meters.
Unauthorized use of such equipment is illegal. For its use you must obtain permission and register the device. At the moment on the website of the State Commission for radio frequencies, which makes decisions about the use of certain frequency, while the jamming signal is by using frequency, there is no corresponding decision for granting frequencies to create interference in the conduct of the exam. On the Internet there is only the draft decision.
For the first time, the exam began to use technical means to suppress the signal of mobile phones a few years ago. Because of rampant cheating. However, the devices proved to be not stable, the first experience was “lumpy”. For example, the signal stifled not on the whole space of the auditorium where the exam took place.
The effectiveness of this measure, as the jamming signal can be put under question from both technical and economic side. The cost of one device for emission of white noise is 20 000 rubles. If the decision of the State Commission for radio frequencies is made, then school leaders need to pay attention to what they are buying jammers. Not all devices are able to drown out the signal Wi-Fi. Well, the micro receiver in the other bands to buy is easy, which negates the use of jammers.
The jamming signal is, in fact, is the recognition that schools cannot provide the basic organizational measures, such as inspection of premises before the exam and strict checking participants at the entrance, the publication says. Why not help existing verification measures and the phones still be in class? Then, most likely, either the students are carrying them in very secret places, or teachers too low wages.
