Are phone jammers legal?

dillo2k10

Hi,
There is a teacher in my school who uses a phone jammer so we can not use our phones in her class and I was wondering is this legal? It is only in her class and does not affect anywhere outside her class.

So is it legal or not?

xxlauraxxox

dillo2k10 wrote: »

Hi,
There is a teacher in my school who uses a phone jammer so we can not use our phones in her class and I was wondering is this legal? It is only in her class and does not affect anywhere outside her class.

So is it legal or not?

who cares u should not have ur phone on u durin school hours anyway :pac:

ur in school to learn not use ur phone

Kynareth

Unless you have proof she uses a Jammer it won't matter with the legality.
I highly doubt a teacher would buy a jammer just for one class.

Atlantic Dawn

‘‘It pretty much blocked every single mobile phone frequency within a 50-foot radius of the device," he said. ‘‘But then ComReg [the communications regulator] got wind of it, came down and requested that we take it down."

The problem, said ComReg, was that the jammer prevented emergency calls getting through. Peeved, Anderson dismantled the device, but asked for the regulation body to look again at the situation.

ComReg held an open consultation process, aimed principally at the country’s mobile phone operators. When the resulting report was published, it reiterated the operators’ strongly held views that jammers were unacceptable to them.

‘‘The use of jammers or interceptors would be a drastic response, disproportionate to the issues identified," said Tommy McCabe of the Irish Cellular Industry Association, which represents mobile operators’ public policies.

http://www.thepost.ie/archives/2006/0820/celluloid-fans-take-on-the-noise-16487.html

Tom Young

Not legal.

pieface_ie

who cares u should not have ur phone on u durin school hours anyway

ur in school to learn not use ur phone

What if you have a terminally ill relative etc?

Stupid thing to say

coylemj

They are illegal because they are broadcasting within a regulated part of the radio spectrum, the only people who can legally broadcast using those frequencies are the licensed cellular networks.

IvySlayer

It's illegal. Wouldn't be able to call the emergency services.

ardle1

:DWhy do you think the guards haven't a minute every things illegal in Ireland:)

twowheelsonly

pieface_ie wrote: »

What if you have a terminally ill relative etc?

Stupid thing to say

Then I'm sure your family will know that you're in school and can contact them to let you know if anything happens.

The teacher is dead right IMO. How many of those pupils are so important that they need to be available to take a call at all times?
Have you ever listened to teenagers on a phone or read their texts?
Pure waffle!!!

Not strictly legal but I can't see that she's doing anything too wrong.

Our man in Havana

It is wrong and illegal, Comreg should prosceute her to the fullest extent of the law.

I blame the customs for not stopping these packages coming from Hong Kong in the first place.