Mobile phone interceptors legalised

dave13

Comreg has just legalised mobile phone interceptors for places such as cinemas and in the theatre.
http://www.comreg.ie/publications/default.asp?ctype=5&nid=101873

Mr E

Wow.... excellent.
Who'll be first to implement?

LFCFan

about bloody time!

Zico

Hurrah for comreg! Those wasters finally seem to have realised that their responsibilities go beyond protecting the advertising revenues of commercial radio stations.

Tusky

Id say UGC will do it first...or maybe IFI.

impr0v

Hallelujah!

OfflerCrocGod

I thought this was about mobile phone tapping.....I was wondering what it was doing in Films.....

satchmo

Excellent, delighted to hear it.

tck

yeah i can really see that working properly :rolleyes:

Hagar

If they can differentiate between a call to the emergancy services and other calls they can obviously identify the destination number. Now if they can intercept that part of the phone call, can they intercept the rest? I mean forget the cinema situation, imagine it in any public place, this technology could be used to eavesdrop on calls without blocking them.

Fysh

Hagar wrote:

If they can differentiate between a call to the emergancy services and other calls they can obviously identify the destination number. Now if they can intercept that part of the phone call, can they intercept the rest? I mean forget the cinema situation, imagine it in any public place, this technology could be used to eavesdrop on calls without blocking them.

If you read the document on the ComReg site, you'll see that the implementation covers this adequately - it's not that a cinema can fit the device themselves; they reach a "commercial agreement" with the mobile phone network companies to have the companies set up a "quiet zone" covering the approximate location of the cinema. And the networks are then required to report every zone they set up to ComReg, as part of their license agreement.

Although I do think that worrying only now about eavesdropping in the context of communicating over a privately-owned communications network is a bit, well, naive. As a couple of lawsuits in the UK have shown, the only thing stopping employees of mobile phone networks from intercepting/listening in on phone calls or text messages is the law and company policies designed around it. But this isn't really relevant for the context of the film forum.

Personally, I applaud it and think it's a great idea. Hope they bring it in at The Gate sooner rather than later (not pushed about the Capitol because I avoid it like the plague and it's closing in a while anyway).

halenger

I'd say Savoy will be quick off the mark since they were doing it in the past before they were caught and told to not.

MadsL

Excellent, first place to do this will get my business. Now all we need are 'scumbag interceptors'...

Cabaal

Saw this on ie.comp
Its about bloody time, now I just got to wait till Waterford Cineplex gets it installed........that could be awhile