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Possible penalties are 34k euros and/or 6 months in jail. He hasn't been convicted of anything yet. That being said, could people with more experience in jammi

by belval 5y ago

Possible penalties are 34k euros and/or 6 months in jail. He hasn't been convicted of anything yet. That being said, could people with more experience in jamming chime in here? How likely is it that he was actually jamming his teenagers' phones and not something else? The hardware we see in the picture seems extremely overkill for that task, I expected the smaller AliExpress jammers.

macinjosh 5y ago
I agree, if the only goal was to restrict his children's internet usage their are much cheaper and practical solutions like you know taking away the phone if they can't use it responsibly. I think this is an excuse that happens to make good headlines and he had other goals in mind.
- trasz 5y ago
  You don't even need to take away their phones; in iOS there's this function called "Screen Time" where you can declare limits on kids' phones, like "no more than two hours per day, and nothing at all after 21:00, except for Music.app". There's also analytics (how much time was spent over past week, with what apps) and a way for the kid to ask for more time. I'm sure Android provides similar functionality too.
blantonl 5y ago
Presumably the media article is sensationalizing the story a bit. Given the spectrum analyzer screenshot in the article, the jammer in question was flooding the 850 Mhz area spectrum with wave noise, jamming LTE/5G internet access in a localized area in the town. I would assume that the cellular provider probably was called by numerous customers in the local area asking why their cellular access was going down, and they deployed a spectrum analyzer to troubleshoot the issue. This is common - interference from everything from misbehaving power supplies to leaky TV cables can cause interference that cellular engineers troubleshoot all the time. Once they noticed a jammer was being used they contacted law enforcement. The real problem here is that these jammers will also deny phone access (read: 911 / 112) and can also jam public safety communications radios which also sometimes operate in the same spectrum.
josephcsible 5y ago
> How likely is it that he was actually jamming his teenagers' phones and not something else? We know for sure this isn't the case. If it were, then nobody would have found out and he would have gotten away with it.

by belval 5y ago

macinjosh 5y ago

I agree, if the only goal was to restrict his children's internet usage their are much cheaper and practical solutions like you know taking away the phone if they can't use it responsibly. I think this is an excuse that happens to make good headlines and he had other goals in mind.

trasz 5y ago
You don't even need to take away their phones; in iOS there's this function called "Screen Time" where you can declare limits on kids' phones, like "no more than two hours per day, and nothing at all after 21:00, except for Music.app". There's also analytics (how much time was spent over past week, with what apps) and a way for the kid to ask for more time. I'm sure Android provides similar functionality too.

blantonl 5y ago

Presumably the media article is sensationalizing the story a bit. Given the spectrum analyzer screenshot in the article, the jammer in question was flooding the 850 Mhz area spectrum with wave noise, jamming LTE/5G internet access in a localized area in the town. I would assume that the cellular provider probably was called by numerous customers in the local area asking why their cellular access was going down, and they deployed a spectrum analyzer to troubleshoot the issue. This is common - interference from everything from misbehaving power supplies to leaky TV cables can cause interference that cellular engineers troubleshoot all the time. Once they noticed a jammer was being used they contacted law enforcement. The real problem here is that these jammers will also deny phone access (read: 911 / 112) and can also jam public safety communications radios which also sometimes operate in the same spectrum.

josephcsible 5y ago

> How likely is it that he was actually jamming his teenagers' phones and not something else? We know for sure this isn't the case. If it were, then nobody would have found out and he would have gotten away with it.