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Lebanon’s Telecom Minister Boutros Harb is promising faster and cheaper internet speeds within a month as well as unlimited plans. He’s also talking to the Wall Street Journal about fiber optics and implementing Law 431, which would allow free competition in the telecom market and stop the duopoly led by Alfa and Touch.
These are very ambitious plans to accomplish within few months, but I can only wish him good luck as these are all positive steps that would help make the internet better in Lebanon. I don’t think the government will allow competition as it will cut down its revenues from the Telecom sector but faster and cheaper internet speeds are great news. The first change introduced by Harb on prepaid cards wasn’t relevant to the majority of mobile users in Lebanon, so let’s wait and see if any of these more suitable demands is implemented.
how can they make the internet faster if our phone installations are so old specially outside beirut and Metn region?
i have a 1mb connection at home but what i really get is hardly a 256k speed
according to my internet provider company , the phone lines date from the 60’s and cant handle high speed data transfer
this needs years to fix!
Disclaimer: there’s no such as an unlimited plan, there’s always a cap
Sehnawi zara3 w hayda jeye yo7soud w ya3mel ino howe li shel w 7att w 3emil … bass ma bi2assir a7san maykoun ra7 sheghl Sehnawi 3al fade …
wl shi li rakhaso msh bas l mobile users ma stafedo meno… ma 7ada stafed … sette bte7ke ma3 khele la barra 3al viber w skype (bala zoghra)
exactly, I was amazed how quick the blog author was to wish Harb good luck while with the previous ministers (who actually placed the base foundation for an improved telecom in Lebanon) were under constant fire from him and many others…. you know what they say: some look at matters with one eye.
We all knew that sehnawi is the one who did the work and he took credit for it, and now hard is able to speed up the internet because he have no problems with the director of ogero. Its just a political shit! In politics im not with sehnawi but he’s the best misiter ever and i hope he’ll come back. He’s a geek after all
Joseph shaklak fhemtne ghalat ma3am ente2id l blog 3am ente2id l wazir 😛 (sa3adet ma3ele … watever:P )
w Rodrigue … good thinking 🙂
Josef,
I just love how you keep on assuming things. When Sehanoui was out, I wished him good luck and hoped he’d do better than his predecessor, as well as mentioned the things he’s done and criticized the things I didn’t like.
I said Harb was off to a bad start in my post and I mentioned his goals are very ambitious and I doubt he’ ll make them in such a short period and said the discounts he’s done are not relevant to us 😀
Stop looking with one eye since that’s what they say.
I don’t think he’ll do all of that in a month. Let’s hope he does.
Sehnaoui and Bassil built on top of what Marwan Hamade (DSL and I-ME-WE) and Hariri (mobile) had prepared before them.
indeed
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and this looks interesting:
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