{
  "id": 16946875,
  "title": "Brendan Carr plans to let prisons jam cellphone signals",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/brendan-carr-plans-to-let-prisons-jam-cellphone-signals",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-28T18:57:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Verge",
    "slug": "the-verge",
    "url": "https://www.theverge.com/policy/1021165/fcc-brendan-carr-prison-phone-jamming"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "FCC Chairman Brendan Carr announced the agency will vote on November 19th on rules that would allow prisons to use signal jamming. Radiofrequency jammers are generally banned under Section 333 and the Communications Act of 1934, with few exceptions, and Carr has noted they've been permitted for use at some federal facilities already. Carr claims […]",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}