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.