{"id":6306,"date":"2011-12-21T00:35:49","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T22:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/12\/yemen-mobile-firm-sabafon-alleges-govt-vendetta\/"},"modified":"2011-12-21T00:35:49","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T22:35:49","slug":"yemen-mobile-firm-sabafon-alleges-govt-vendetta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/yemen-mobile-firm-sabafon-alleges-govt-vendetta\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemen mobile firm Sabafon alleges govt vendetta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Sabafon says a quarter of sites attacked by govt-allied<br \/>\nforces<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Sabafon subscribers cannot phone abroad<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Calls to and from landlines also barred<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Ruling party denies deliberately targeting Sabafon<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Matt Smith<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>DUBAI, Dec 20 (Reuters) &#8211; Yemeni mobile operator<br \/>\nSabafon said on Tuesday that its facilities had come under<br \/>\nrepeated attack by state forces because of its chairman&#8217;s<br \/>\nsupport for protests aiming to end the 33-year rule of President<br \/>\nAli Abdullah Saleh.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for Sabafon, which is 27-percent owned by<br \/>\nBahrain Telecommunications Co (Batelco), told Reuters<br \/>\nfrom Sanaa the company&#8217;s headquarters had been hit three times<br \/>\nby rocket-propelled grenades this year.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He said more than 250 transmission towers and other sites &#8212;<br \/>\nabout a quarter of its facilities &#8212; had been subject to<br \/>\nshelling, gunfire and looting, killing one employee.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sabafon subscribers cannot receive or make calls to Yemen<br \/>\nlandlines or phone abroad, illustrating the toll nearly a year<br \/>\nof strife in the impoverished Gulf nation has taken on basic<br \/>\nservices.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Sabafon says a quarter of sites attacked by govt-allied forces * Sabafon subscribers cannot phone abroad * Calls to and from landlines also barred * Ruling party denies deliberately targeting Sabafon By Matt Smith DUBAI, Dec 20 (Reuters) &#8211; Yemeni mobile operator Sabafon said on Tuesday that its facilities had come under repeated attack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-6306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}