FCC Record, Volume 27, No. 16, Pages 12846 to 13813, October 15 - November 7, 2012 Page: 12,884
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the one offered on Craigslist by Mr. Ilundley cannot comply with the FCC's technical standards and
therefore cannot be marketed lawfully in the United States or its territories.20
B. Illegal signal jammer advertisement on Craigslist
S1. The evidence indicates that Mr. I lundley was illegally marketing a jamming device to
consumers in the United States. As noted above, beginning on August 20, 2012, Mr. Hlundley advertised
a cell and GPS jammer on Craigslist.2' Craigslist is a classified advertisements website, generally
involving an online listing for a product or service followed by an email or telephone exchange and an in-
person meeting between the buyer and seller.22 Craigslist users are prohibited from posting
advertisements to multiple geographic areas.23 Consistent with this policy, Mr. Hlundley posted his
jammer advertisements on one of more than 300 local sites on Craigslist--the Charlotte, North Carolina
site, available at http:// charlotte.craigslist.org. These illegal online offers for sale were repeated in email
correspondence with Bureau staff, where Mr. Ilundley confirmed that he was still marketing the
jammer."
12. We note that both the Craigslist Terms of Use and the Craigslist Prohibited Items List
prohibit the sale and advertisement of cell phone jammers, GPS blockers, and other signal jamming
devices. The Craigslist Terms of Use states: "Content prohibited from craigslist includes but is not
limited to: ... content in facilitation of the creation, advertising, distribution, provision or receipt of
illegal goods or services."1' The Craigslist Prohibited Items List then applies this policy directly to signal
jamming devices, noting that illegalgl telecommunications equipment, including .. .signal jamming
devices," is "not permitted on craigslist."'
13. Accordingly, we find that Mr. Hundley has willfully and repeatedly violated Section
302(b) of the Communications Act and Sections 2.803 and 15.201(b) of the Rules by marketing in the
United States a radio frequency device that is not eligible for certification. We therefore issue this
20 In very limited circumstances and consistent with applicable procurement requirements, individuals and/or entities
may market jamming devices to the U.S. federal government for authorized, official use. See 47 U.S.C. 302a(c);
47 C.F.R. 2.807(d).
21 See Appendix A.
22 See Craigslist Terms of Use, Section 4a, Postings, http://www.craigslist.org/aboutltenns.of.use (last visited July
31, 2012) (noting that "craigslist is intended and designed as a local service."). Craigslist permits an individual to
post free classified advertisements for goods and services, and through its anonymize email feature, facilitates
communications between the seller and the potential buyer. See http://www.craigslist.org/about/anonymize (last
visited Aug. 9, 2012) (stating that if a seller selects the anonymize feature, the posting will display a Craigslist email
address and that Craigslist will relay any messages sent to that address to the seller's email address).
23 See Craigslist Terms of Use, Section 4a, Postings, http://www.craigslist.org/about/tenrns.of.use (last visited July
31, 2012) (noting also that "a user may post content only to the single specific geographic area offered on craigslist
(see http://,www.craigslist.orglabout!sites) bfor which that content is most relevant" and that "[t]he same or
substantially similar content (for example, an ad for a particular item or service, a particular offer, a particular
message or a particular comment) may not be posted to or communicated via more than one such geographic area.
Content that is equally relevant to multiple (i.e., more than one) geographic areas should not be posted on
craigslist.").
24 See Hundley Email Reply (on file in EB-SED-12-00004596).
29 See Craigslist Terms of Use, Section 3a, Content, http://www.craigshst.org/aboutterms.ofuse (last visited July
31,2012).
26See http://www.craigslist.org/about/prohibited.items (emphasis added) (last visited July 30, 2012), attached hereto
as Appendix B.12884
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