Why the cell phone blockage??

[INDY72]

Precisely! That is why the cordless manufactureres went up from Lo Band, to Hi band, to 800/900, to 2.4 GHz, added in spread spectrum hopping. If you come across older models you can still hear em, and on the older model 800 MHz Radio Shack scanners, you can hear the 800/900 MHz cordless non spread spectrum stuff. And even though tecnically blocked the older model RS 800 MHz scanners did pick up the analog cellular stuff which used to piss me off when trying to monitor TRS back then.

 

[SCPD]

Yet are JUST AS ILLEGAL to listen to. I'm surprised to hear this coming from a Cell Tech - encouragement of violating the ECPA.

That's wayne_h being sarcastic. The ECPA was passed in 1986. Cordless phones weren't added to the list until 1994 or 1995. So yes it is illegal but no it is not a violation of the ECPA.

In Askin v. McNulty, 47 F.3d 100, 103 (4th Cir. 1995), cert. denied 116 S. Ct. 382, 133 L. Ed. 2d 305, the court held that because cordless telephone communications were "neither a wire nor electronic communication" under Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, as amended by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986, they were not protected communications, and "virtually every court to have faced the question of whether cordless phone conversations were oral communications under [18 U.S.C.]  2510(t) answered in the negative." Since the amendments of 1994, however, the act has been expanded to provide protection to conversations on cordless phones and, thus, cordless phones should now carry a reasonable expectation of privacy.

http://www.hawaiilawyer.com/articles/internetlaw_article_jcm.htm

If you read anything online that says listening to cordless phone calls is legal in the US, check the data. It was probably written prior to 1995.

-rick

 

[N_Jay]

Yet are JUST AS ILLEGAL to listen to. I'm surprised to hear this coming from a Cell Tech - encouragement of violating the ECPA.

That's wayne_h being sarcastic. The ECPA was passed in 1986. Cordless phones weren't added to the list until 1994 or 1995. So yes it is illegal but no it is not a violation of the ECPA.
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If you read anything online that says listening to cordless phone calls is legal in the US, check the data. It was probably written prior to 1995.

-rick

Ya learn something new every day.

 

[elk2370bruce]

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