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Lousiana Oilfield Company Agrees To Pay Fine for Operating Cell Jammer

The FCC Enforcement Bureau entered into a consent decree with Taylor Oilfield Manufacturing in which the company acknowledged operating an illegal cell jammer for less than two weeks. Taylor agreed to pay a $28,000 fine and comply with rules in…

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the future, the bureau said. Taylor “cooperated with Commission agents, surrendered the jamming devices, and is a small company that had not previously violated any communications laws,” the bureau said in a notice in Monday's Daily Digest. Taylor operated the jamming device on its property in Broussard, Louisiana, in 2012, the bureau said.