The Federal Communications Commission plans to have ten cars cruising the streets of America, each loaded with $75,000 worth of equipment to detect unlicensed radio signals and signals causing interference. Each car contains two computers, a mobile phone, a color printer, and a satellite receiver in the trunk. The FCC plans one day to have a total of seventy such cars, two for each of its thirty-five field offices. The agency said that it usually detects two or three pirate radio signals each month.

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