June 18, 2004
Italy School Foils Cheats by Blocking Phone Signals
This is certainly a first. A school in Italy will use military technology to thwart students cheating on their exams, with their cell phones or camera phones.
Reuters reports that The Enrico Tosi Technical Institute school in northern Italy has found a way to foil the next generation of would-be cheats thanks to cell phone jammers.
Most schools try and confiscate phones before exams, but this way we can be sure nobody slips through," said Benedetto Di Rienzo, the head of the school in Busto Arsizio which is testing the devices for the Education Ministry during exams this week.
The box-like units, called C-Guard, were developed by experts from the military and defense industries for Netline Communications Technologies. They jam signals in a 262-foot radius in enclosed spaces.
They could eventually be installed across Italy to prevent cheating during university exams."
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