
If you manufacture, import or distribute jammers, you may be committing a crime. See section 68 of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 2006. The maximum penalty is two years’ imprisonment and/or an unlimited fine.

It is a crime to use any apparatus, including jammers, for the purposes of deliberately interfering with wireless telegraphy (radio communications) in the UK.

Jammers may be designed to affect specific services like the frequencies allocated for mobile phone services, satellite navigation systems, Wi-Fi or security systems. How jammers workĪ jammer normally functions by emitting an electromagnetic disturbance, sometimes called ‘noise’, on a band at an intensity that overwhelms the target receiver, making reception impossible.

A radio frequency jammer is a device constructed, adapted or intended to be used to prevent the reception of radio transmissions by a receiver relevant to its function.Īt best a radio frequency jammer could cause you to miss a call at worst, it could facilitate crime or put life at risk.
