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In the UK using a mobile phone while driving has been illegal since 2003, unless it is in a handsfree kit. [28] The penalty originally started with a £30 ($40) fine which later became a fine of £60 ($80) plus 3 penalty points in 2006, then £100 ($134) and 3 points in 2013. [29]
In the UK, 20,000 mobile phones and sim cards were recovered as prison contraband in 2016. In 2017, a prison in Bristol added telephones and computers which were not connected to the internet into the prison cells in an attempt to combat illegal mobile phone usage. [24] [25] The UK Parliament passed a law which would allow mobile phone ...
In the UK, a survey showed that there were no mobile phone bans in schools in 2001 but by 2007, 50% of schools had banned mobile phones during the school day. This number increased to 98% by 2012. These bans were implemented by either forbidding students from bringing phones onto school premises or by making students hand their phones in at the ...
Many countries have acknowledged the use of the IMEI in reducing the effect of mobile phone thefts. For example, in the United Kingdom, under the Mobile Telephones (Re-programming) Act, changing the IMEI of a phone, or possessing equipment that can change it, is considered an offence under some circumstances.
Legitimate sites are regularly blocked by the filters of some UK ISPs and mobile operators. [40] In December 2013 the UK Council for Child Internet Safety met with ISPs, charities, representatives from government, the BBFC and mobile phone operators to seek ways to reduce the blocking of educational advice for young people. In January 2014 ...
[6] [7] Illegal means of gaining information used included hacking the private voicemail accounts on mobile phones, hacking into computers, making false statements to officials, entrapment, blackmail, burglaries, theft of mobile phones and making payments to public officials.
Mobile phone spam is a form of spam ... under UK law, it is illegal for a solicitor to obtain business by unsolicited direct contact with potential personal injury ...
Ofcom, UK's telecom regulator, allowed 3 to sell a mobile phone with the SIM card permanently superglued to the phone. [66] Most operators offer some form of unlocking service, depending on the state of the contract and the model of phone, but usually for a charge.