I was interested to read in yesterday's Guardian over breakfast, that it may be illegal to make one's bar or restaurant into a Faraday cage in order to discourage one's customers from using their telephones. It seems that it is not particularly difficult or expensive to make a room into a rough and ready such cage - but the catch is that the 2006 wireless and telegraphy act makes it an offence to meddle with the air waves.
It seems unlikely that this is one of the offences that whoever promoted the act had in mind. Let alone accidental interference arising from building large buildings, buildings which just happen to block television reception in their radio shadow, as it were.
Clearly something else for the lawyers to chew on.
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