Cellular Update
Well, they've done it again. The high paying special interest groups have
gotten yet another law passed. Now it is not only illegal to listen to
cellular communications, but illegal to even MAKE a tuner capable of tuning
them in! Never mind thats its just EMR floating through space, your body, your
house. It is ILLEGAL to tune a crystal to such and such frequency converting
the energy to audio. Ridiculous. People who broadcast their conversation
across the country side should have no expectation of privacy. Does everyone
have to cover their ears when I yell out the window to my friend? No, of
course not. The question of it being immoral or not should not be confused
with legality. Heres the new law.
SEC. 408. INTERCEPTION OF CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS.
(a) AMENDMENT -- Section 302 of the Communications Act of 1934
(47 USC 302) is amended by adding at the end the following new
subsection:
(d)(1) Within 180 days after the date of enactment of this
subsection, the Commission shall prescribe and make effective
regulations denying equipment authorization (under part 15
if title 47, Code of Federal Regulations, or any other part
of that title) any scanning receiver that is capable of --
(A) receiving transmissions in the frequencies allocated to the
domestic cellular radio telecommunications service,
(B) being readily altered by the user to receive transmissions
in such frequencies, or
(C) being equiped with decoders that covert digital cellular
transmissions to analog voice audio.
(2) Beginning 1 year after the effective date of the regulations
adopted pursuant to paragraph (1), no receiver having the
capabilities described in subparagraph (A), (B), or (C) of
paragraph (1), as such capabilities are defined in such
regulations, shall be manufactured in the United States or
imported for use in the United States.
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