“Unfortunately there is deliberate jamming by Libya ... which is illegal,” CEO Samer Halawi told Al Arabiya television.
“Jamming started on Feb. 17 and it continues today. Our equipment is reducing the effects of the jamming so that we have coverage in 70 percent of Libya,” Halawi said.
Based in Abu Dhabi, Thuraya provides satellite telephone and other services across Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. Emirates Telecommunications Corp (Etisalat) is a main shareholder of the company.
On Monday, Al Jazeera television said Libya’s intelligence agency was behind the powerful jamming that has disrupted the widely watched Arab satellite broadcaster’s signal across much of the Middle East and North Africa.
On Saturday, Arbor Networks, a US company that monitors Internet traffic said Internet service had been cut off in Libya for a second consecutive day.
