This is great news to kick off the week! No more device registration and sending empty SMSes starting the 5th of May. Here’s the full article [Here].
Telecom Minister Boutros Harb Cancels Obligation To Register New Phones
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Had to go through quite a hassle to register my new phone. Its about time they cancelled this crap of a law.
oh look, Boutros Harb can actually Tweet… properly.
I don’t care if he thinks Twitter is a sexual position. If he comes up with good telecom laws (or at least reverses dumb ones), he’s the man for the job.
In the few weeks that he has been in charge he has lowered rates on fixed and cell lines, reversed the phone registration, and introduced credit card billing. I hope he implements consolidated billing and I look forward to his promise to lower internet package rates, increase internet speeds and adjust the internet quotas. Dare I imagine what he can accomplish with the electricity company!!!!
he lowered nothing, except rates on international calls related to countries like botswana and mozambique… but NOT france or USA or even GCC countries… people were simply fooled by false promises.
regarding the canceling of the mobile registration, well I am sure the happiest people are the smugglers, the counterfeit salesmen and mobile mafia in addition to some terrorist groups.
As for the credit card billing that was a plan prepared by the banks and the former minister and NOT him. he just took the credits.
I am looking forward just like you to lower the price of the internet… I hope it won’t be another FALSE LIE.
Sharing my experience with phone registration:
First time:
I arrived to Lebanon and totally forgot to register the phone IMEI even though it was on my mind before leaving to Lebanon, however as i get closer to Lebanon i totally forgot about, i would say its normal to be excited being home and meeting my family and not “great Nicolas”
I had to renew my Lebanese passport so i dropped it at General Security office, and took a copy of passport with the documents stating that my passport is with General Security for renewal, later i went to the airport to register IMEI, they rejected doing it saying that they need the original passport.
So i had to wait till i got my passport back.
Second time:
After three months i went back to Lebanon, while abroad i missed recharging my Lebanese line by one day, so it became useless, and as i had intention to keep the same card i didn’t remove the link between the SIM card and the phone.
So when i got to Lebanon my phone got useless again, i was calling the mobile provider explaining the situation spending over an hour talking with them about, they promised to have it done and as usual in Lebanon they don’t follow their promise was supposed to be done within the day.
Second day, I have done something which goes against my morals, my friend contacted his friend at the provider, and guess what “magically” the connection between the old sim and the phone was taken out, and then i was able to use my new line.
Some of people living in Lebanon do not understand the basic rights that must be provided by the country.
They want to protect the government’s money that they should generate from taxes, theoretically its amazing, but is it what they want?
If this is the case, let them investigate who smuggle the phones to Lebanon and how, and let them take each and every one of them to jail.