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LTE and 5G sometimes operates pretty close to public safety, for example the 600 and 700 MHz (sometimes referred to as low-band LTE/5G although that's a bit con
by jcrawfordor 5y ago
LTE and 5G sometimes operates pretty close to public safety, for example the 600 and 700 MHz (sometimes referred to as low-band LTE/5G although that's a bit confusing given low band is more often used to refer to low VHF and these are low UHF) are close to the 700MHz public safety bands. There's a similar issue around 900MHz.
And a lot of public safety radio these days is LTE - most cities operate an LTE network on one of the upper public safety bands, and they see extensive use by police and fire for MDTs. Voice is still more often over something like P25 but frequently adjacent to municipal LTE. So even a well-designed LTE/5G jammer might target these bands.
But in general jammers are not precise devices. 5G operates over many bands in a few significantly different parts of the radio spectrum. It's by far easier to emit broadband noise in the right general regions, but that will end up knocking out hundred-MHz wide swaths or more.