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Egypt accused of jamming al-Jazeera
Source: The Guardian
Egypt accused of jamming al-Jazeera
Lisa O'Carroll
theguardian.com, Monday 2 September 2013 16.54 BST
The Egyptian government has been accused of jamming the signal of al-Jazeera, the pan-Arabic news channel, for the past seven weeks.
It has also been blamed for blocking the broadcaster from sending out raw TV feeds on the Egyptian crisis to other broadcasters.
The Qatar-based channel's head of teleport, Ibrahim Nassar, told MediaGuardian it has pinpointed four different locations for the source of jamming after commissioning an interference detection company, Integral Systems Europe, to investigate the problem. Three of these were east of Cairo and one was in the desert west of the capital.
Nassar said its Egyptian service, al-Jazeera Mubasher, had been subjected to jamming every day between the hours of 7am and midnight since 5 July. It broadcasts on the Egyptian-owned Nilesat satellite.
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Lisa O'Carroll
theguardian.com, Monday 2 September 2013 16.54 BST
The Egyptian government has been accused of jamming the signal of al-Jazeera, the pan-Arabic news channel, for the past seven weeks.
It has also been blamed for blocking the broadcaster from sending out raw TV feeds on the Egyptian crisis to other broadcasters.
The Qatar-based channel's head of teleport, Ibrahim Nassar, told MediaGuardian it has pinpointed four different locations for the source of jamming after commissioning an interference detection company, Integral Systems Europe, to investigate the problem. Three of these were east of Cairo and one was in the desert west of the capital.
Nassar said its Egyptian service, al-Jazeera Mubasher, had been subjected to jamming every day between the hours of 7am and midnight since 5 July. It broadcasts on the Egyptian-owned Nilesat satellite.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/sep/02/egypt-accused-jamming-al-jazeera
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