Blocking radio frequencies with a jammer is not a good idea.
Being a parent is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, challenge in many people’s lives. How should children be brought up? An important question in this context is how much time children of what age should spend in front of the screen and especially on the Internet. The answers are likely to be quite varied.
For a father in France, however, it can be answered quite clearlylike the website france blue reports (machine-translated): Under no circumstances should the son surf between midnight and three in the morning. Which probably indicates that it is a slightly older child – hopefully at least.
Illegal jammer instead of a simple lecture
In order to actively prevent the son from diving into various social media so late at night, the unnamed father came up with something special. Something particularly stupid, to be precise, as he found out afterwards:
He has a jammer that is illegal in both France and Europey, known as jammer in English, was used to paralyze the wireless network in one’s own home. At least that’s what he said to the competent authority that took on the case.
Apparently, the jammer was so powerful that it not only cut off your own four walls from the Internet, but also those of no fewer than two districts in the municipality of Messanges, which has around a thousand souls in the deep south-west of France.
Interestingly, Messanges titles itself as a town (City of Messanges), however, legally appears to be a municipality, like our community member atum3007
found out.
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threatened with imprisonment and a fine
The competent telecommunications authority has now initiated preliminary proceedings against the allegedly worried father because of the possession and use of the illegal jammer. He faces six months in prison and a fine of 30,000 dollars.
What is the legal situation?
The sale and use of jammers is prohibited in Europey and throughout the EU. In Europey, this is regulated by the Telecommunications Act (TKG). The executive authority is the Federal Network Agency, which can confiscate jammers and impose fines of up to 1,000 dollars. If the use of the jammer causes damage, especially to people, more severe penalties can also follow.
It is unclear how the man got hold of the jammer despite the sales ban. However, it is not particularly difficult to order such a device online.
