Re:Start Your Own ISP
by Railander on Saturday June 19, 2021 @05:23AM
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> So there’s nothing stopping someone from jamming your equipment
Nearly a decade at a small/medium ISP in Brazil (where illegal competitiveness isn't uncommon) and I've never seen this happening to us (or if it did, we never found out).
This is because jamming the spectrum requires a very powerful antenna that will _also_ interfere with every other antenna in the region, including probably their own. Instead of that, it's way easier to just grab some scissors and cut off your competitor's wires (which has in fact happened to us on numerous occasions).
So while there are anticompetitive practices I don't think this is one you'd ever have to worry about.
Nearly a decade at a small/medium ISP in Brazil (where illegal competitiveness isn't uncommon) and I've never seen this happening to us (or if it did, we never found out).
This is because jamming the spectrum requires a very powerful antenna that will _also_ interfere with every other antenna in the region, including probably their own. Instead of that, it's way easier to just grab some scissors and cut off your competitor's wires (which has in fact happened to us on numerous occasions).
So while there are anticompetitive practices I don't think this is one you'd ever have to worry about.