About two months ago at around 8 or 9 at night, there was a knock on our door. A man stood at our door but did not speak any English. After a moment of awkwardness, he called someone that did speak English. The caller claimed that there was something from our apartment interfering with Orange's (our local wireless carrier) cellular service. They wanted to come in and check for the source of the interference.
Being a skeptical American, I balked. They had no identification, and it was late at night. I questioned how they could identify that the source of the interference was coming from our apartment, especially since we've been living here for over 1 year without previous interference issues. The night ended with them retreating and agreeing to send the radio technician that made the claim in the first place.
Two months passed. Then we received a letter in the mail from the Ministry of Communications or something like that saying we had an illegal radio source that is interring with Orange's broadband spectrum and that it is a prison-able offense. After calling them and leaving a message, two weeks later someone finally called back, and we scheduled a technician to visit the apartment. Turns out Orange has recently started using their 900 MHz spectrum which is coincidentally the same frequency that the baby monitor uses. So we had to say goodbye to the monitor else poor little Makky goes to jail.
Being a skeptical American, I balked. They had no identification, and it was late at night. I questioned how they could identify that the source of the interference was coming from our apartment, especially since we've been living here for over 1 year without previous interference issues. The night ended with them retreating and agreeing to send the radio technician that made the claim in the first place.
Two months passed. Then we received a letter in the mail from the Ministry of Communications or something like that saying we had an illegal radio source that is interring with Orange's broadband spectrum and that it is a prison-able offense. After calling them and leaving a message, two weeks later someone finally called back, and we scheduled a technician to visit the apartment. Turns out Orange has recently started using their 900 MHz spectrum which is coincidentally the same frequency that the baby monitor uses. So we had to say goodbye to the monitor else poor little Makky goes to jail.
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