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From: judice@sulaco.enet.dec.com (Lou Judice @KYO / DTN 323-4103)
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Subject: Re: Portable Office Phones
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Date: 2 Mar 90 21:36:02 GMT
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I believe that the good moderator is in error when he states that it
is in anyway illegal to possess or sell a receiver capable of
receiving cellular telephone calls.

Scanners and more advanced monitoring receivers that are fully capable
of receiving cellular transmissions are absolutely legal to use, own
and sell - by anyone. Period.

It is illegal to listen to cellular communications, as well as a
couple of other classes of communications, namely broadcast studio to
remote location links and certain other "press" communications. I
believe this was slipped into the law to sooth the media industry
during the ECPA introduction.


/ljj