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From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu ("J. Eric Townsend")
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Subject: Re: Wondering About Gulf Crisis Coverage
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In article <16147@accuvax.nwu.edu> linc@tongue1.berkeley.edu (Linc
Madison) writes:

>Brokaw, in fact, asked CNN how they did it,
>and the reporter was quite secretive.
>So how did they do it?  My initial guess was some sort of multiplexed
>multiple phone lines, but it seems that all regular phone lines from
>Baghdad were disrupted.  Any ideas?

Something called a "four-line" or "four-wire", according to CNN.  It
seems that only CNN was (pre-war) allowed to "lease" one of these from
the Iraqi government.  Best I can tell, they used it to transmit to
Jordan, at which point they were patched into a phone network.

I'm not a telephony guru, so I dunno...


J. Eric Townsend     Internet: jet@uh.edu    Bitnet: jet@UHOU
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[Moderator's Note: I believe the link outbound from Jordan was via
satellite to the United States, then into a wire-line once it got
here.  Hopefully we can have a couple of detailed responses on this
over the weekend.    PAT]