Is the SMS sender illegal?

Yes, the radio transmitting equipment is illegally produced, and it has the function of shielding mobile phones from accessing the operator's base station signals and sending short messages. This equipment interferes with the base station equipment of China Mobile and China Unicom on the same frequency.

Someone used the short message sender to send more than 30,000 short messages in three days, and used the device to send a lot of junk and cheat short messages, which constituted the crime of destroying public telecommunications facilities.

According to Article 124 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), the crime of destroying radio and television facilities and public telecommunication facilities refers to the act of deliberately destroying radio and television facilities and public telecommunication facilities in use and endangering public safety. This is a crime of endangering public security with radio and television facilities and public telecommunication facilities as the specific targets.

Whoever sabotages radio and television facilities and public telecommunication facilities and endangers public safety shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years; If serious consequences are caused, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than seven years.