Re: Mobile phone jammers

On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 11:56:36 -0700, sk8terg1rl
<sk8terg1rl_2006@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 30 Jun, 17:34, "Peter Crosland" <g...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
How legal is it to use the devices advertised by the company below to
block mobile phones? If it is against the law, what law would be
broken? They were originally developed to stop mobile phone triggered
IEDs, but I can see their utility in "peacekeeping" in cinemas,
libraries and private meeting rooms.

In fact in the former two, users are instructed to turn off their
mobile phones to be conscientious of others around. Thus apart from
disrupting text messages, the ones you'd be interfering with shouldn't
have had their phones active in the first place!

The use of them is illegal under the various Wireless Telegraphy Acts in the
UK. It is also illegal to import or sell them.

Peter Crosland

Hi Peter,

So if I understand correctly, if one uses them to jam another person's
call that's taking place in say a cinema with clear indications to
turn off the mobile phone, one criminal and one civil offence have
taken place. The criminal offence was by the person using the device
in contravention of the WT Act, while the civil offence was by the
mobile phone user against the owner of the cinema?


It would be extremely unlikely that any civil "offence" would have
been committed (I put offence in quotes because in law "offence" means
criminal, you cannot technically have a civil offence, but I know what
you meant).

But there would be no doubt at all that jamming would be a criminal
offence regardless of whether there was any civil wrong in using the
phone.
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