A NZ$5 million system to jam mobile phone calls being made from within New Zealand's prisons has been found wanting, after it emerged that phones connected to the newish 2degrees network were unaffected by the jammers.
According to a report in the local Dominion Post newspaper, a prisoner told the Parole Board recently how he used the 2degrees network to call his children. Other prisoners are also understood to be requesting that phones smuggled into prisons are supplied with 2degrees SIM cards.
A spokeswoman for 2degrees told the newspaper that the company had worked with Corrections to make sure its spectrum was jammed in all prisons and it was not aware of any problems. When asked whether 2degrees, or any other network, could be used in any prisons, the Corrections department would not answer "for security reasons".
Anecdotally, criminal activity in prisons had fallen since the jammers were introduced because prisoners were forced to use pay phones, which were monitored, added a prisons official.
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