A dad in the French town of Messanges took extreme measures to prevent his children from going online, by shutting down the internet and cell service of two local towns with a signal jamming device.
The father could face up to six months in jail and a fine of over $30,000 for the significant outage. It's illegal to jam telecom frequencies in France.
An investigation was launched after a mobile carrier alerted the French Agence nationale des Fréquences.
All the father wanted to do was to get his kids off of social media between midnight and 3am so they could sleep.
He may have had a little more power than he thought. According to France Bleu, technicians from the Anfr showed up at the man's house in a mobile lab vehicle, trying to figure out what was causing the disruption.
If he were in the US, he would get in trouble. The FCC notes that federal law prohibits the operation, marketing, or sale of any type of jamming equipment that can interfere with authorized radio communications.
jamming devices can prevent you and others from making emergency calls and pose serious risks to public safety communications, as well as interfere with other forms of day-to-day communications, according to the FCC.
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