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Mexican churches jam cellphones

by Khalid Hosein on September 22, 2004

By Chris Hawley, The Arizona Republic

MEXICO CITY – Fed up with cellphones ringing during Mass, four Catholic churches in Monterrey, Mexico, are taking extreme measures to silence them. And no, it doesn’t involve lightning bolts from heaven. The four churches are illegally jamming cellphone signals with Israeli-made transmitters, the same kind used to protect embassies and presidential motorcades from bugs and bombs detonated by phone.

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