Re:Call to ban sale of mini mobile phones
by notl4wy3r on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @08:12PM
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You cannot use a jammer of any kind in the United States, for almost all values of you, including state and federal penal agencies. https://www.fcc.gov/general/jammer-enforcement
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Re:Call to ban sale of mini mobile phones
by aprescott on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @08:16PM
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That's an interesting US fact, but the story is about the UK. Is it likewise restricted there?
Re:Call to ban sale of mini mobile phones
by buckminster on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @09:29PM
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The law was changed to permit jamming in prisons. It is quite difficult to implement because you have to avoid jamming outside the prison, but a successful feasibility study was carried out. And the government decided it was too expensive to roll out nationally.
Re:Call to ban sale of mini mobile phones
by QAPereo on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @09:07PM
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Criminal, according to Ofcom regulations.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/spectrum/interference-enforcement/s...
There are after all good reasons to ban them, but even if those reasons didn’t exist, the Tories would ban them for their usual “law and order” reasons.