Dad Takes Down Town's Internet by Mistake to Get his Kids Offline
by martyb from SoylentNews on (#5WA8S)
owl writes:
Dad takes down town's internet by mistake to get his kids offline:
A French dad faces jail time and a hefty fine after using a signal jammer to prevent his kids from going online and taking the rest of a nearby town down with them.
Starting at midnight and until 3 AM every day of the week, the French town of Messanges found that their cellular and Internet service were no longer working.
After a mobile carrier reported the issue to the Agence nationale des frequences (ANFR), a public agency responsible for managing the radioelectric spectrum in France, it was determined that a signal jammer was being used to block radio frequencies in the town.
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