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FREEVIEW GETS AL JAZEERA
The English version of the Qatar based news service Al Jazeera, has announced that it will be showing up on the free-to-view digital television platform, Freeview. The channel is already available on satellite TV through Sky and Freesat, where it can be received in around ten million homes, but this deal with Freeview will effectively double its UK audience to around twenty million households. Al Jazeera will be on the air from 6 pm to 11 pm every day on Freeview channel 89 from its studios in London and in Washington.
GLOBAL FLASH NEWS the technical team." It gave no details on the satellite, but public radio said it, like its predecessors in the Ofek series, were cable of taking high resolution pictures and aimed at monitoring Iran's nuclear programme. The radio said the satellite was developed by Israel Aircraft Industries and launched on a Shavit rocket.
SES ASTRA SIGNS SATELLITE BROADBAND AGREEMENT WITH NASK
SES ASTRA, an SES company has announced that it has entered into a distribution agreement with the leading Polish data network operator NASK to offer its satellite-based broadband service ASTRA2Connect to business customers in the Polish market. The service is available as of now. As a comprehensive IT communications provider for the business market, NASK offers broadband internet access, corporate networks, data
ISRAEL LAUNCHES SPY SATELLITE Israel has launched a spy satellite from a base in the south of the country, the defence ministry said, with the device reportedly capable of monitoring arch-foe Iran. "A few minutes ago the State of Israel launched the Ofek-9 (Horizon-9) satellite from the Palmachim base," the ministry said. "The results of the launch are being examined by
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transmission, hosting, videoconferences as well as network security services. With ASTRA2Connect, the company will expand its portfolio of services to provide existing and new business customers with satellite based broadband connectivity at low cost. Customers will benefit from a range of different service packages with speeds of up to 4Mbit/s, also in remote regions where terrestrial broadband networks are limited or non-existent.
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