Silence at the touch of a button: The dream of a mobile phone jammer

Presumably, aircraft will also be divided into telephone areas and mobile-free zones in the future. What that means, you already know from the train. There, travelers can choose between compartments in mobile phone zones and rest areas – at least if the train is not already so crowded that you have to be happy to be able to sit anywhere.

The principle is actually simple: In the mobile phone zone the reception for cell phone jammer is increased, not in the rest zone. Now the railway has also announced that it will further strengthen the mobile phone reception in the ICE. The quiet zones should continue to be spared. There, small icons indicate that phone calls are undesirable: stick figures holding a conspiratorial finger in front of their mouths. However, at least one person in the open-plan car regularly does not seem to see these signs and starts talking loudly.

Since the mobile phone reception in the rest areas of the ICE is not strengthened, the conversation then breaks off in the middle of conversation, as the train passes through an underserved area. The following monologue everyone on the train can then say by heart: “Hello? Hi? Are you still there? I think the reception is just bad, I’ll call you again! “And then it starts all over again. In the rest area it is sometimes worse than in the telephone compartment.