The occupier’s effort to confiscate radios and jam broadcasts ultimately failed

Evidence

After 1957, the French troops in operation formed the habit of confiscating all the radios in the course of a raid. At the same time listening in on a certain number of broadcasts was prohibited. Today things have progressed. The Voice of Fighting Algeria has multiplied. From Tunis, from Damascus, from Cairo, from Rabat, programs are broadcast to the people. The programs are organized by Algerians. The French services no longer try to jam these powerful and numerous broadcasts The Algerian has the opportunity every day of listening to five or six different broadcasts in Arabic or in French, by means of which he can follow the victorious development of the Revolution step by step. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 333

Categorization

• QUESTION: Why did the French cease jamming in 1957? Fanon doesn’t explain the strategic reversal.

Related

• French jamming forced Algerians into active radio wave-countering tactics. (similarity 0.83)
• Algerian leadership bombed Radio-Alger but failed to silence it permanently (similarity 0.82)
• French jamming forced Algerians into a tactical war of the waves (similarity 0.82)
• Algerians treated deliberate radio static as the presence of the Revolution (similarity 0.79)
• Algerian society autonomously reappropriated the radio as a weapon of revolution (similarity 0.78)