Jamming = Mega fine and possible jail time.
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Date: July 22, 2018 05:30PM
“Jamming devices create serious safety risks,” said Michele Ellison, Chief of the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau. In the coming weeks and months, we’ll be intensifying our efforts through -partnerships with law enforcement agencies to crack down on those who continue to violate the law.
Through education, outreach, and aggressive enforcement, we’re tackling this problem head on.”
Ellison said, “While people who use jammers may think they are only silencing disruptive conversations or disabling unwanted GPS capabilities, they could also be preventing a scared teenager from calling 9-1-1, an elderly person from placing an urgent call to a doctor, or a rescue team from homing in on the location of a severely injured person. The price for one person's moment of peace or privacy, could be the safety and well-being of others.”
Jamming devices are radio frequency transmitters that intentionally block, jam, or interfere with lawful communications, such as cell phone calls, text messages, GPS systems, and Wi-Fi networks. Increasingly, online retailers tout small, inexpensive jammers as the solution for noisy classrooms, theaters, restaurants, or business meetings. However, jammers are indiscriminate – they can block critical public safety and other emergency communications along with the targeted transmissions. As such, jammers are illegal to market, sell, or use in the United States. A single violation of the jamming prohibition can result in tens of thousands of dollars in monetary penalties, seizure of the illegal device, and imprisonment.
Action by the Enforcement Bureau of the FCC on February 9, 2011 by Public Notice (DA 11-249; DA 11-250)