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Saturday, December 2, 1972
ILLEGAL RADIO OPERATORS SILENCED
The possession of citizen band transceivers (commonly called 'walkie
talkies') without an appropriate radio dealers licence is an offence against
the Telecommunications Ordinance and the use of these sets is strictly
prohibited in Hong Kong.
This was stated today by a spokesman for the Post Office when commenting
on a recent seizure of a quantity of radio devices operating on the citizen
band frequencies.
The spokesman said: "Possession of these transcievers with an
appropriate Radio Dealers licence is only allowed for export purposes and the
citizen band frequencies are exclusively allocated to the Hong Kong Government."
He said that as a result of a series of lightning raids carried
out recently by inspectors of the department's Telecommunications Division
six people were arrested and charged with contravening the Telecommunications
Ordinance.
Five of the accused were found guilty and each was fined $400 while
the remaining one pleaded not guilty.
The raids were conducted on various premises in the Kwun Tong,
Sham Shui Po, Yau Ma Tei and North Point areas after a prolonged
surveillance on illegal radio stations operating on the citizen band
frequencies.
The illegal radio devices were all confiscated,
Note to Editors:
Photographs showing some of the confiscated equipment are distributed separately in the GIS press boxes this afternoon.
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