He wanted to put his teenagers on a dry diet but it was his entire village and the neighboring town that he deprived of an Internet network. The national frequency agency (ANFR) Explain
on his site that a mobile telephone operator recently complained to her about interference which “affected telephone and Internet services in all mobile frequency bands in the town of Messanges, in the Landes”. A detail will put on the track the investigator of the Toulouse regional service of the ANFR, the jamming never occurred before midnight and stopped most of the time around 3 am, every day of the week.
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In the middle of the night, the investigator was able to observe the effects of the jammer at the foot of the radio site of the mobile operator who had reported the situation, the graph on his analyzer taking “a characteristic form”. He sought the owner of this jammer, a device whose possession is prohibited in France “with its direction finder on the roof of the vehicle and its portable receiver for research on foot”, specifies the ANFR. He managed to identify the dwelling at 1:30 a.m. but the undue hour forced him to return the next morning.
The father admits having bought a jammer “capable of neutralizing both mobile telephony and wifi” in order to prevent his teenagers from hanging out on the Internet from their smartphone. Since the start of the health crisis, they have developed addictive behavior according to their father, who wanted to take drastic measures, following advice unearthed on a forum.
The device being illegal, the father of the family risks legal proceedings, up to six months in prison and a fine of 30,000 euros. In addition to the confiscation of the jammer, he had to pay 450 euros for the intervention of the ANFR agent. The Dax prosecutor told the agency that he had seized the gendarmerie brigade with an investigation and asked that the defendant be summoned.