@John53 here is a translation of the original story
Without knowing it, a father deprives his neighbors of internet and telephone in the Landes
Friday, February 11, 2022 at 8:25 p.m. - By Renaud Biondi-Maugey, France Bleu Gascogne, France Bleu
A Landais who had installed a wave jammer is being prosecuted. Thinking of depriving his only children of the internet, he actually disrupted all telecommunications in his neighborhood.
Telephones no longer worked at night in the Messanges area (Landes) © Radio France - Emmanuel Claverie
A father living in the Messanges sector (Landes) is being prosecuted for having, without knowing it, blocked the internet and mobile telephony for several nights in his entire neighborhood. He was thinking of depriving his only children of the internet and did not imagine that the wave jammer he was using was going to disrupt telecommunications in an area spanning two municipalities. An investigation by the National Frequency Agency has established his responsibility and legal proceedings have been initiated.
It all started with the alert from a mobile phone operator: one of its antennas no longer worked at night in Messanges, generally between midnight and 3 a.m. To solve this mystery, a technician from the ANFR, the national frequency agency, went to the site, in Messanges, with a fully equipped laboratory vehicle, equipped with a direction finder on the roof, a detection device hostile waves. The technician also travels on foot, with a portable receiver. And he ends up, fairly quickly, by identifying a house where the disturbances seem to come from.
The father of the family admits to using a wave jammer
A man, occupying this dwelling, is then interrogated. He immediately recognizes that he is using a multi-band wave jammer, capable of neutralizing mobile telephony but also wifi. He explains that he bought this device to deprive his children of the internet at night and prevent them from consulting social networks, which they were addicted to. Every night, this Landais therefore plugged in this jammer, thinking to cut the telecommunications in his only house. Except that devices of this type often have a "wider radius of action than one thinks or than the seller suggests" explains this Tuesday, February 8, the ANFR on its website. This is how this jammer disrupted mobile telephony in an area straddling two municipalities, including Messanges
Sans le savoir, un père de famille prive ses voisins d'internet et de téléphone dans les Landes
