[Article] Law obliges cinema to stop using mobile phone jammer

Victor

I agree with the principle of blocking phones in cinemas (well that or making the users lick the floor clean after Saturday's showings).

Law obliges cinema to stop using mobile phone jammer

The Savoy cinema in Dublin has dismantled a device it used to scramble mobile-phone signals, following an intervention by the Commission for Communications Regulation.

Full story: http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2003/0426/1760572689HM4CINEMA.html

daveg

typically Irish.

why dont they make it illegal to use/have a mobile on in the cinema ?

daveirl

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Mr E

I was sitting beside a total KNACKER in the cinema last night (in a packed screen, so I couldn't move). He got one of those camera phone things, and decided to test all his polyphonic ring tones.... while the movie was on.

Then about an hour into the movie, the phone rang and he conversed (loudly) for 2 minutes, oblivious to the shhhhhhh-ing from everyone around him.

Mobile phones should be banned in the cinemas.

- Dave.

seamus

I can't access the Irish Times site, but I'm assuming the logic behind it is a safety issue - i.e. what happens if the place goes on fire, or if someone has a heart attack - you have to run outside the cinemas to ring for help.

However, never one to allow safety become a hinderence more than necessary, I think all cinemas should have the right to eject anyone found to have their mobile on while the film is running, without refund. Throwing someone out during the film would disturb everyone else, but eventually the knackers and fools would find somewhere else to go to be a tit.

therecklessone

This was mentioned in Thursday's Ticket.

The legal position, according to the Commission for Communications Regulation is that it is illegal to use any device "for wireless telegraphy" which causes "interference to appartus which is lawfully licensed or lawfully operational without a license".

I imagine that both the Savoy, and the CCR if they failed to act on knowledge of the Savoy's blocker, would be open to legal action from O2, Vidafone and Meteor, who payed the shekels for those mobile licenses.

That said, the sort of f**ker who refuses to pay attention to the very obvious request to turn the bloody things off deserves to be attached to the mains and fried.

Lex_Diamonds

If only comreg were as quick to deal with the REAL issues. Muppets. :rolleyes:

ObeyGiant

Interesting to note that the law the Savoy was in violation of dates back to the 1920s.

TinCool

Originally posted by TmB
I was sitting beside a total KNACKER in the cinema last night (in a packed screen...

Mobile phones should be banned in the cinemas.

Nah, knackers should be banned in cinemas. Most ass holes who use mobiles in cinema's are knackers. The average person may forget to turn off their phone and if it rings during the film he/she would generally turn it off or leave the cinema to carry out their conversation.

Knackers, normally live up to their name and have absolutely no regard for anyone.

imp

Its illegal to put in place anything which prevents you from contacting the emergency services. Makes sense, no? I think some schools have tried it aswell.

Though I've noticed people using their phones in the Savoy, so it mustn't have been working.

It would make sense to just make it illegal to use phones in places like cinemas, except for emergency calls. Or for the ushers to intervene when someone's using one.

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Mr E

Originally posted by imp
Or for the ushers to intervene when someone's using one.

Great in theory, but... The only problem with that is you need one usher per screen. The limerick omniplex has one usher per .... ummm... building? :rolleyes:

- Dave.

imp

Aye. I don't understand why cinemas do that though.

If there's only one usher or two to a multi-screen cinema then what's to stop people from just going to another screen once the film on their ticket's over?

I know a cinema where people do this all the time (not me, I'm a good boy ) and I can't understand why the owners don't put more ushers in the place. Its not as if the cinema I'm talking about can't afford it, and I'd say most other cinemas probably could too.

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Wook

geezes guy's , emergency at the cinema ?! how far walking is it, until you can contact the staff ?
How did we organize our lives before the mobile revolution ?!

daveg

Originally posted by daveirl
How do you mean daveg? You mean it's typically Irish to not allow people to block phone signals?

Yes I mean it's typically Irish that a cinema had the balls to tackle the situation by blocking mobile phones and they apply this law so that the nackers can still use their phones in the cinema.

I hadn't thought of the emergency services situation but as wook said How did we organize our lives before the mobile revolution ?!

daveirl

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Wook

such as what else ? (you would need at the movies ?)

Mr E

Pacemakers? :eek:
(Well you'd never know!)

- Dave.

Irish_Ranger_IR

I was at a flick in Tallagh, and these 2 lads would not stop talking, so i let them talk, they talked up to when the film was started, they still talked, so i said nothing, then they kept talking.

I turned around and said,

Here....i paid to watch this, not to hear u 2 talk..

Then there was, what you say? you head me i said back.

at this stage i was so mad at them, that i almost went nuts, not a good thing for me to do.

So after 2 mins of them being quite, one turned to the other and said, jimmy lets go for a smoke. and they both left and never came back.

Funny, but i kept looking for hem on the way out in case of being jumped, but it didn't happen.

Mad.....