links for 2005-12-02
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'RocketFM uses any available FM frequency to transmit audio through your home, car or office stereo system.' Only 40USD, but I have a feeling this is unfortunately illegal in the UK.
bitful
UK-based weblog on technology, queerness, language and fitness
Friday 2 December 2005 at 1:31 pm
In the UK (and I suspect in the US too) it is illegal to interfere with licensed transmissions from other people. (This, incidentally, is why cinemas and theatres can not simply block mobile phone signals in their auditoriums). However, unlike the US, all of the FM frequency bandwidth has been dished out to various organisations around the UK. This means that there is not a frequency to which you could tune such a device without, theoretically, impinging on someones licences.
The result?
It is not illegal to own such a device, but it is to turn it on.