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Telecom Minister Nicolas Sehnaoui has been tweeting all day about the official launching of the Beirut Digital District, an innovative community with state-of-the-art infrastructure aiming at contributing to the economic development of Lebanon. This is the product of a “real partnership between the public and private sectors” as stated by PM Najib Mikati.
The first building opened is in Bachoura and is 5000m2. Six other buildings will follow and all will be provided with 4G speed and fiber optic internet connections by the Telecom ministry.
This is a great initiative but I hope high internet connections won’t be restricted to the Beirut area as other major cities are suffering from a rather slow service.
Fibre-optic broadband is chiefly beneficial because of the speed boosts which it can bring to the market. Old DSL services running over copper telephone lines can reach a theoretical maximum download speed of around 24Mbps, with real-world speeds rarely living up to the top end of this scale. Fibre-optic broadband has already trumped this by a significant margin, with 100Mbps services becoming available in some places and the ultimate goal of exceeding 1Gbps visible on the horizon. [ shop fiber optic internet (dot) com ]