REGULATION
Mobile Phone Jammers Regulation
Preamble
This Regulation is issued by the Telecommunications Regulatory
Authority (TRA) of the Kingdom of Bahrain under section 3(c )(1) of the
Telecommunications Law. Where this Regulation is a translation of the
original version, and any discrepancies exist between the two, the
original version shall prevail.
This Regulation is without prejudice to any obligations on Parties under
other laws of the Kingdom of Bahrain.
1 Definitions
Any word, phrase or expression used in this Regulation shall, unless
the context requires otherwise or it is expressly defined herein, have
the same meaning as it has in the Legislative Decree No. 48 of 2002
promulgating
the
Telecommunications
Law
(the
“Telecommunications Law”) and the terms below shall have the
following meaning:
“Applicant”:
the Person seeking to Use a Mobile Phone Jammer
and applies to the TRA for approval for such Use,
in accordance with section 3 of this Regulation.
“3G”:
a third generation mobile phone network,
operating in the 2.1GHz band and based on
CDMA technology.
“CDMA”:
Code Division Multiple Access – the digital cellular
phone technology that allocates codes to traffic
channels.
“GSM”:
Global System for Mobile communications – the
second
generation
digital
cellular
phone
technology,
utilizing
time-slots
for
traffic
channels, operating in the 900 MHz and 1800
MHz bands.
“Mobile
Phone Jammer” or “Jammer”: a device for
intentionally blocking mobile phone network
frequencies to prevent mobile phones from
operating.
“Person”:
any natural
authority.
or
artificial
“Radiocommunications equipment”:
apparatus
designed
radiocommunications.
“Use”:
Ref: MOU/RN/010
person
any
or
or
public
equipment
used
or
for
(as verb, in all tenses, and noun) the operation of
a Mobile Phone Jammer in order to intentionally
block mobile phone signals.
Telecommunications Regulatory Authority
Date: 8th November 2004
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