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I'm curious about the regulatory side of this. Did the FCC grant these police departments a license to transmit on frequencies assigned to cell companies? Did
by jauer 12y ago
I'm curious about the regulatory side of this.
Did the FCC grant these police departments a license to transmit on frequencies assigned to cell companies? Did the cell companies in question allow the police to use their frequencies?
The FCC is usually quite particular about interference with cell phones. For example, it's illegal for prisons to run a cell phone jammer but they can coordinate with call companies to run a fancy repeater that MITMs calls in the area and only allows authorized handsets.
- eli 12y agoThe FCC is clearly aware of what's going on and the FOIA denial suggests that at least someone somewhere has been authorized to use them: http://files.cloudprivacy.net/FOIA/FCC/fcc-stingray-reply.pdf http://files.cloudprivacy.net/FOIA/FCC/fcc-stingray-reply.pd...
- eitally 12y agoThe attached letters from the municipalities of Houston, Anne Arundel County, etc... indicate -- to me, at least -- that the authorization was granted. If they hadn't been, I don't see the FOIA officer bothering to attach them, but who knows.