PUTRAJAYA: An entrepreneur was fined RM80,000 by the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court yesterday, for using unauthorised communications equipment often called an ‘SMS Blaster’, which triggered severe disruption to community and mobile companies.
MCMC in a press release in the present day mentioned the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court Judge made the choice after the 36-year-old man pleaded responsible to 4 expenses introduced in opposition to him by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC).
According to the assertion, the entrepreneur was charged with two expenses below Regulation 16(1)(b) of the Communications and Multimedia (Technical Standards) Regulations 2000 for using the SMS Blaster on the Memoire Suites Condominium, Dua Central, and EkoCheras, Kuala Lumpur.
“For the opposite two counts, he was charged below Regulation 34(5)(c) of the Communications and Multimedia (Spectrum) Regulations 2000 for using the SMS Blaster and inflicting interference with the community and mobile companies of a licensed telecommunications firm,“ in keeping with MCMC.
MCMC acknowledged that for all the fees, the person might be fined no more than RM300,000 or imprisoned for a most of three years, or each.
An investigation by the MCMC Enforcement Division discovered that the modus operandi employed by the entrepreneur was to put in the SMS Blaster machine with an antenna in condominium items adjoining to highways.
The SMS Blaster was modified to develop into a pretend base transceiver station (BTS), and when individuals’s cellphones related to the mentioned SMS Blaster, the 4G community service can be disrupted and dropped to a 2G connection.
As a outcome, the general public started to obtain commercial messages resembling commercials for cash lending companies, and commercials for playing actions by way of quick message service (SMS).
The criminal activity additionally triggered issues resembling dropped calls and unsatisfactory web service high quality.
