Sony may have been very happy with the reception that PS3 got in the United Kingdom, but Home Secretary John Reid has said the next-gen console is not welcome in the British prisons as the officials fear that inmates could use the Wi-Fi abilities of PlayStation 3 to send messages to the outside world.
John Reid said, “Advice was issued to all prisons in December 2005 that the Sony PlayStation 3 was barred from the prison estate because of the equipment’s ability to send and receive radio signals.”
The PS3 uses the Wi-Fi to transmit information to Sony’s PSP handheld. There is a possibility that other countries could ban the PS3 from their prisons too.