Few questions that need to be addressed to the Telecom Ministry after seeing this report:
1- How are expats and tourists being informed about these new measures? Is there enough marketing being done in the airport and online? Because the guy interviewed at first in the LBCI report obviously had no clue about these regulations.
2- The Telecom person interviewed is saying: “The problem is not with the line but with the device, because the line is not connected to any phone. In fact, you can use your line with a billion devices but the device will be linked to this line so if you want ur line to be used on another new and registered device you can use it, but if it’s a used phone than the device needs to be disconnected from the line.”
Something doesn’t sound right here. How can you use your line in the newly bought device if you don’t disconnect the old device from it? Can we use our line on two different devices?
3- If someone steals your phone, he can unlock the device by sending an SMS to 1014. If this is true, doesn’t that contradict with what Rita Khairallah from the Telecom Ministry just said in the report?
4- Why is it taking so much time in Touch and Alfa to register the devices or explain to the customers what to do? Everyone seems upset in the LBCI report.
5- One last question: I still want to know what is the point from these regulations because as mentioned earlier, I haven’t seen one person praising them or saying they are for our own good.
The guy at 1:03 is just priceless..
it’s to associate the phone & line with a specific person for Gov’t surveillance.
the question is ….eventually, which Gov’t?
3. It does contradict, unless the phone is protected with a passcode and the SIM card with a PIN code (making the “thief” unable to detach the number using another device). Which is something I advise everyone to do…
LOOK LOOK I TELL U WHAT TO DO! ASK TO BOROW YO FREINDS PHONE AND SEND SMS 1014 ! IT WORKS I TRIED IT!!!
Purpose is to allow the few politicians to be the sole importers of Samsung and apple devices to Lebanon and make them and ONLY them benefit from trade, import, etc…