Florida residents were fined $ 48 thousand for using the powerful jammer of cellular networks on the road

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) punished a resident of the state of Florida, USA, who used a powerful jammer on the road. He hid the device under the seat of his Toyota Highlander. The gadget was turned on every time Jason Humphreys went to the city of Tampa, and he rode there every day.

Commission agents and the police tried to locate the source of interference on the highway number 4 for a long time. And only a few days later the owner of the jammer was found and arrested. The owner of the system claimed that he was "fed up with the kind of drivers using mobile phones while driving."

At the same time in Florida it is not forbidden to use a mobile phone while driving, it is forbidden only to read and send text messages, but you can make voice calls. But the FCC has clear guidelines on “gaming” with emergency workers and emergency communications.
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Not long ago, the FCC fined the Chinese company CTS Technology Co. for $ 35 million for attempts to advertise 285 different models of wilderness.



In the US, using jammers is not rare. In the same year, a 63-year-old resident of Chicago was convicted and sentenced to a fine for using such a device on a train since 2014. Catch him had longer than Humphreys. And the problem was that the owner of the jammer could jam not only people's everyday conversations, but also calls to the rescue service and the police. The suspect was discovered when he drowned out the connection on the phone of a nearby plain-clothes police officer.