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by notl4wy3r 3101 days ago
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
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That's an interesting US fact, but the story is about the UK. Is it likewise restricted there?
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.
Criminal, according to Ofcom regulations.

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.