How do I create a vb.net application that can switch off a phone network that is around that environment?

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Hi Fellow programmers.
Please I am an upcoming visual basic programmer. I have developed two applications for my church.
Right now, they want me to develop an application that switch off the network of member’s phone so that there won’t be any distraction when preaching.

I thought that could be network programming. But I read some network programming book on visual basic, but I could not get it.

Apart from them counting on me, I desire to be able to develop such application.

Please I urge who know how to do it to tell me. God bless you all.
Thanks.

Posted 11-Feb-14 3:27am

David Marvel

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Richard MacCutchan 11-Feb-14 11:16am

Well if you ever solve this you will be able to sell it to thousands of people who hate mobile phones. Good luck.

Richard C Bishop 11-Feb-14 11:21am

I am not sure that would be legal. How are you going to interrupt another companies signal with an application? The church goers would have to have the application installed on their devices if it is even possible I would think. You could, however, build a faraday cage and block all signals. That would be expensive and probably not practical though. I would be interested to see what other responses you get for this.

David Marvel 13-Feb-14 17:54pm

thanks a lot for the answer. i learn a god lesson from you. please can you enlighten me more on farady cage? i have searched for it but i could not get it Thanks a lot.

Richard C Bishop 14-Feb-14 9:41am

Here is an article that will tell you about it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage

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Social pressure is probably the only practical way to solve this.
Announcing a reminder at the beginning of the service is simple and probably will make a big difference on its own.
Most people are quite embarrassed when it happens to them and a reminder helps.

I saw a YouTube(?) video of a US church that addressed (solved?) this with a "fine"/"donation" for anyone whose phone went off during the service.
(A financial amount that is big enough to be a nuisance, but not so big to become a hardship.)

As said above, there's not likely a feasible technology-based solution.

Posted 11-Feb-14 6:48am

Matt T Heffron

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Thanks a lot to all of you who kindly contributed wisely to my question. I have learnt a good lesson from You people. Thanks a lot.

Posted 12-Feb-14 0:28am

David Marvel

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-11T05:31:00

Be warned: what you want to do is not possible in "just software" at all, it requires hardware as well, and would almost certainly be illegal in most countries.

It certainly is in the UK: http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/enforcement/spectrum-enforcement/jammers/[^] and also the US and Australia have laws against it. Probably others do as well.

Can you do it legally in Ghana? Doubtful. Can you do it safely in Ghana? Probably not - I know a lot of people who would consider it a punching offence to disable their phone or internet access...

Consider googling for "phone jammer" locally, and see what you get.