Libya accused of jamming western satellite
services
The Guardian reports that British and US diplomats have protested
to the Libyan government after two international satellites were
illegally jammed, knocking off-air dozens of TV and radio stations
serving Britain and Europe and disrupting American diplomatic, military
and FBI communications.
The newspaper says the UK Foreign Office has confirmed that it
raised the issue in talks between the British embassy in Tripoli
and the Libyan government.
Ofcom, the UK telecoms regulator, said it was considering taking
a complaint to the ITU.
The Guardian says the jamming started on 19 September after the
launch in London of a small British and Arab-owned commercial radio
station broadcasting on human rights and freedom of speech issues
to Libya. Ten minutes after the station - initially known as Sout
Libya - went on air a transponder carrying the station was jammed
for 50 minutes along with other stations. The jamming stopped when
Sout Libya stopped broadcasting.
The station relaunched as Sowt Alamel, this time through a new
satellite called Telstar 12. As a precaution, the broadcasts were
sent to the US first, and then beamed up to Telstar, making it impossible
for anybody to jam it, except from America. Yet the moment it went
on air, the jamming started again, knocking out the other stations
without affecting Sowt Alamel.
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