Fine grained access barring of aggressive cellular devices is provided. A method can include detecting, by a system comprising a processor, a frequency of signaling events transmitted by network equipment operating as part of a communication network; in response to the frequency of the signaling events transmitted by the network equipment being determined to be greater than a frequency threshold, altering, by the system, an access class of the network equipment from a first access class to a second access class that is different from the first access class, wherein the second access class is reserved via the communication network; and in response to the access class of the network equipment being altered to the second access class, causing, by the system, a base station serving the network equipment to deny at least a portion of network access requests transmitted by the network equipment to the base station.