But a threat this year to ban satellite dishes by imposing extortionate licence fees was not carried out.
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They sold satellite dishes door-to-door in Colorado in the 1980s, building a satellite company called EchoStar.
Television satellite dishes, now banned as a threat to Islamic values, should be legalised.
Now the internet is available (though many sites are blocked) and satellite dishes are ubiquitous.
Within Syria itself, satellite dishes have given millions of Syrians a tantalising glimpse of the modern world.
Built on stilts, some of the rudimentary houses are topped by satellite dishes, but the scene still somehow feels timeless.
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Guards and Basijis roam apartments, smash doors and windows, throw satellite dishes from the roof tops and leave.
Its younger sibling, MEASAT-1, is already beaming down a 23-channel network called Astro to subscribers' own satellite dishes.
At Stanford since February, he's also working to distribute computers, cameras and satellite dishes to poor communities in Brazil.
And this in a country where satellite dishes have always been technically illegal, though openly tolerated in East Malaysia.
Unlike satellite dishes, their reception was easily disrupted by events on the ground.
Like satellite dishes, they had to be aligned by expert technicians, and could be knocked off target by snowstorms or wind.
Do not, of course, start tuning your pirate satellite dishes just yet.
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Business people in Canada face south, as do their television satellite dishes.
Via the internet, satellite dishes, travel and interaction with a 2m-strong diaspora, its people are painfully aware of the prosperous cosmopolitanism enjoyed elsewhere.
The official media have unquestionably lost a monopoly on the flow of information and thanks to illegal satellite dishes Florida television now comes to Cuba.
This is the middle class of satellite dishes and political activity.
In China and Singapore, private ownership of satellite dishes is prohibited.
This is Don Quixote tilting at windmills--or maybe at satellite dishes.
When you are on a ship, all telephone, data, and video traffic is carried through a complement of large satellite dishes found on the top deck.
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The IRGC is also widely rumoured to control a near monopoly over the smuggling of alcohol, cigarettes and satellite dishes, among other things in great demand.
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He said he knows the dangers of returning - the Syrian military are adept, he said, at picking up transmissions from mobile phones to satellite dishes.
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Apart from the obligatory satellite dishes and computers Clarke's home is decorated with photographs of him next to the Pope, the Apollo astronauts and Steven Spielberg.
Tall concrete and stucco villas redefined a stretch of the horizon, while builders trucked in TVs, satellite dishes and boxes of hand-painted tile to decorate the houses.
They spend much of their time watching television, trying to soak up all this diversity through the satellite dishes on the roof of their home in north Cincinnati.
With 19 state-of-the-art satellite dishes, the faith-based and family-themed broadcaster can download more than 50 cable-television channels and deliver them potentially to hundreds of thousands of customers nationwide.
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Satellite dishes and the internet open windows on the world.
Adventurer and rainforest guide Duane DeFreitas surfs the Web by candlelight in the middle of the Amazon, getting online with a hacked-together system of satellite dishes and solar panels.
Satellite dishes protruded from many of the tin roofs.
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From this humble beginning, Broadcast.com grew into a company of 288 employees with offices in 10 cities, which connects users to a variety of radio and television programming through its 22 satellite dishes.
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