We all have started to suffer the side effects of the continually progressing cell phone technology. It is not only about the fact that we don’t communicate anymore, as we just talk, talk and talk, but it is also about all that noise we are making when using our mobile phones.

Everybody has started to use the mobile phone as if it represented a device without which their lives could not continue anymore.
People have started to use the cellphone just because they owe it and just because everybody owes one, two or even three mobile phones. Still, is there a deep meaning behind all that noise?

It seems this is the question from where the cellphone jamming story has all started. And it also seems that the jammers’ answer to the question is “No.” For them it is just the irritating noise of all those voices talking and talking at their cellphones about everything. In buses, in stores, in cafés, on the street, they are talking on the cellphone about all kinds of silly things.

This seems to have determined some rebel souls and minds to create the cellphone jammer, a device that has started to be used more and more. The cellphone jammer represents a device that could block the cellphone reception. When one gets irritated about an endless chattering, he or she uses the cellphone jammer and in just seconds the noise is over. This way, although it represents an illegal move, the cellphone jammer helps these people to enjoy the silence.

But according to James Katz, the Rutgers University’s Center for Mobile Communication Studies’ head, it seems that it is the jammers’ problem after all.

"If anything characterizes the 21st century, it's our inability to restrain ourselves for the benefit of other people. […] The cell phone talker thinks his rights go above that of people around him, and the jammer thinks his are the more important rights."

So, it seems that after all it is all about rights and responsibility and about the way we all understand these concepts.