AMMAN — Some Jordanians lashed out at the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission
(TRC) for disabling some social media applications in areas close to schools
hosting the Tawjihi exams.
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TRC said blocking some apps was temporary during the
exams, which began on June 30, to prevent cheating.
“During Tawjihi exams, the WhatsApp and other
applications are disabled,” said online store owner Mahmoud Anwar, whose shop
is in the vicinity of a Tawjihi exam center.
“This negatively affects our work, which depends
entirely on the Internet,” he said. He explained that some customers who come
to his shop, but are unable to communicate through some applications forces
them to take their business elsewhere.
But other Jordanians said they did not feel the
impact of the service blockage, since it is usually brief.
Khaled Sameh, a clerk at an electronics store near
another Tawjihi exam center, said business is as usual. “We were not affected,”
he said.
Engineer Zaid Al-Qadi, TRC’s director of beneficiary
affairs, said disabling some applications was a decision by the Ministry of
Education to “protect the exam from any violation”.
“Some services are disabled only for 90 minutes,
starting at the beginning of the exam,” he told
Jordan News.
He said the service’s temporary suspension applied
only to mobile phone users, but not other services, such as home internet.
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