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Cell blockers are illegal in the US. Even when the power is very low, if there's enough circumstantial evidence to prove intent to interfere with a transmission, I think that's an $11,000 fine from the FCC.


Perfectly legal to install EM shielding or a Faraday cage. I bet you'd only have to install a few of them before the mobile companies agreed to block certain urls whenever they triangulated a phone as inside one of your stores.


Customers would riot.


I wonder how casinos get away with seemingly blocking cellphone signals. In my experience whenever you go near a slot machine or table game in a casino, cell signal drops to zero.




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