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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/

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 https://www.fcc.gov/general/jammer-enforcement

aprescott 9y ago
That's an interesting US fact, but the story is about the UK. Is it likewise restricted there?
- deleted 9y ago
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- cryptoz 9y ago
  Yes, it is. https://www.ofcom.org.uk/spectrum/interference-enforcement/spectrum-offences/jammers https://www.ofcom.org.uk/spectrum/interference-enforcement/s...
- QAPereo 9y ago
  Criminal, according to Ofcom regulations. https://www.ofcom.org.uk/spectrum/interference-enforcement/spectrum-offences/jammers 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.
- buckminster 9y ago
  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.