Re: "the jammers revenge on mobile prattlers" in the Times

Nomen Nescio

Alasdair <.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 14:44:03 +0000 (UTC), Mike Civil
> <> wrote:
>
> >I suspect the devices are pretty indiscriminate. After all they're
> >unregulated and presumably designed to be multi-frequency so that they
> >can affect any mobile phone in any country regardless of what frequency
> >band(s) they happen to be using.

> I wonder what the penalty is if one is found using one of those
> jammers?

How stupidly would you have to use it to get caught?

You're in a moving train, switching it on for a second or two at a
time, and the prattlers just think it's a network problem when they
get cut off. There's no way the "authorities" would pin it down.

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"Nomen Nescio" <> wrote in message
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>> I wonder what the penalty is if one is found using one of those
>> jammers?
>
> How stupidly would you have to use it to get caught?
>
> You're in a moving train, switching it on for a second or two at a
> time, and the prattlers just think it's a network problem when they
> get cut off. There's no way the "authorities" would pin it down.
>

Can anyone advise whether these devices are legal to possess? I know they
are illegal to use but am unsure about possession.

From what I understand the range of these devices is rather limited - only
around a radius of 5 metres or so, and are not always reliable against some
phones/networks. You'd need one of the more powerful mains powered ones to
silence an entire train carriage I would have thought.

The tempation to use these devices to silence the inane babblers on the
train or bus is rather strong I admit. I notice with horror that they are
looking at introducing the use of mobile phones on aircraft - Sheesh!

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Peter <X-Files fan>