Internet in Lebanon - General Questions

Draguen wroteGuys, super bad news.
Turns out our beloved and obviously far seeing visionary decided that FTTH is useless, so it won't be implemented, instead they will and i quote "only renovate and modernise the existing system", instead of swapping the whole copper network by fiber.

https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/1051545/jarrah-reoriente-la-modernisation-du-reseau-internet.html

As per his opinion based by years of expertise in Lalaland, our network can deliver a minimum of 25mb once modernised (based on copper?).

Frankly whenever a politician make a promise, divide by 5 the minimum to be expected

Yea of course who needs fiber when we have copper ? man i just want to know how do they think?? well then we are stuck to a max of 25 mbps, as he said 25 mbps is "enough" for home internet..

they are doing fttc all over the country for a minimum speed of 50mbps so we're not stuck to 25mbps

Draguen wroteGuys, super bad news.
Turns out our beloved and obviously far seeing visionary decided that FTTH is useless, so it won't be implemented, instead they will and i quote "only renovate and modernise the existing system", instead of swapping the whole copper network by fiber.

https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/1051545/jarrah-reoriente-la-modernisation-du-reseau-internet.html

As per his opinion based by years of expertise in Lalaland, our network can deliver a minimum of 25mb once modernised (based on copper?).

Frankly whenever a politician make a promise, divide by 5 the minimum to be expected

Imad Kreidieh said that they will do fiber to the cabinet to everyone but fiber to the home for everyone is very costly.

kfc wrote

Draguen wroteGuys, super bad news.
Turns out our beloved and obviously far seeing visionary decided that FTTH is useless, so it won't be implemented, instead they will and i quote "only renovate and modernise the existing system", instead of swapping the whole copper network by fiber.

https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/1051545/jarrah-reoriente-la-modernisation-du-reseau-internet.html

As per his opinion based by years of expertise in Lalaland, our network can deliver a minimum of 25mb once modernised (based on copper?).

Frankly whenever a politician make a promise, divide by 5 the minimum to be expected

Imad Kreidieh said that they will do fiber to the cabinet to everyone but fiber to the home for everyone is very costly.

I hope mr imad has a word in this

As far as i see it we are very very very far from having fiber connection , maybe our children will enjoy it , thats how far we are

gamer4life wrote

AVOlio wrote At my end, i will try for one month the 200Gb plan, and limit the YouTube quality at say 480p like now, or 720p max and pay attention to the usage of the internet. And it kills me to do that, because why would i stick to watching 480p videos if i have the ability and speed to watch 1080p and 1440p videos! What a cruel world!

We can limit youtube to 480p for all devices with out everytime changing it? Please tell me how

I can't control my little brothers everytime, and 200Gbs is too low for how much time my family spends on youtube without caring about the quality. 480p should be fine for 10" tablet I think.

There was a firefox/chrome add on that used to set the video resolution to whatever you choose. I forgot what it was, since I stopped using it after subscribing to unlimited plan.

EzikMezik wroteUnlimited nights my arse, prepare to get smashed by the FUP hammer.

I wonder if all COs will have the "speed unleashed". I am not aware that all COs are equiped to handle such bandwidth. Maybe just COs in the large cities? Something to think about if the new packages are made official this Wednesday...

kfc wrote

Draguen wroteGuys, super bad news.
Turns out our beloved and obviously far seeing visionary decided that FTTH is useless, so it won't be implemented, instead they will and i quote "only renovate and modernise the existing system", instead of swapping the whole copper network by fiber.

https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/1051545/jarrah-reoriente-la-modernisation-du-reseau-internet.html

As per his opinion based by years of expertise in Lalaland, our network can deliver a minimum of 25mb once modernised (based on copper?).

Frankly whenever a politician make a promise, divide by 5 the minimum to be expected

Imad Kreidieh said that they will do fiber to the cabinet to everyone but fiber to the home for everyone is very costly.

Another excuse to promote privatization of telephony and internet in this country, if they let private isp do the work then unleash a real competition between them we will all be wining, the isp will make lot of money and we will get faster and faster internet (while keeping prices low) . Tech evolution for the mass shouldn't be controlled by politics, these people give billions of $ for useless concerts (Byblos,Jounieh,...) but when it's for internet they suddenly don't have a penny

I am not sure it is good idea.
I believe ogero and private ISPs should co-exist, but this subject require balance finetuning.

infiniteloop wrote

kfc wrote

Draguen wroteGuys, super bad news.
Turns out our beloved and obviously far seeing visionary decided that FTTH is useless, so it won't be implemented, instead they will and i quote "only renovate and modernise the existing system", instead of swapping the whole copper network by fiber.

https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/1051545/jarrah-reoriente-la-modernisation-du-reseau-internet.html

As per his opinion based by years of expertise in Lalaland, our network can deliver a minimum of 25mb once modernised (based on copper?).

Frankly whenever a politician make a promise, divide by 5 the minimum to be expected

Imad Kreidieh said that they will do fiber to the cabinet to everyone but fiber to the home for everyone is very costly.

Another excuse to promote privatization of telephony and internet in this country, if they let private isp do the work then unleash a real competition between them we will all be wining, the isp will make lot of money and we will get faster and faster internet (while keeping prices low) . Tech evolution for the mass shouldn't be controlled by politics, these people give billions of $ for useless concerts (Byblos,Jounieh,...) but when it's for internet they suddenly don't have a penny

Becareful what you wish for. The telecom sector in the US is fully privatized yet each city has one or two Internet service providers at most and the speeds are slow and expensive at the same time compared to packages in some European and Asian countries. The major cities in Lebanon can have FTTH and the rest can get Internet via coaxial cables. DOCSIS 3.1 can provide speeds up to 10 Gb per second download. All that is required is fiber to the node which the government plans on deploying anyway but of course they want to keep ADSL and VDSL which are older technologies. High speeds can still be reached with copper although FTTH is much better quality but costly at the same time.

Tayyar wrote on Twitter:
لا جلسة التشريعية غداً ولا قانون انتخاب https://t.co/6Dto3TkbIx

About that, is the government going into summer holidays in June or July?

أنّ الحريري أطلع عون خلال لقائهما أمس على جدول أعمال جلسة مجلس الوزراء التي دعا إلى انعقادها في السراي الأربعاء المقبل، مشيرةً إلى أنّ الجدول يتضمن 52 بنداً أغلبها بنود مالية، بينما أبرزها بند يخصّ وزارة الدفاع الوطني ويتضمن الموافقة على تطويع 4000 عسكري في الجيش

perfectable wroteأنّ الحريري أطلع عون خلال لقائهما أمس على جدول أعمال جلسة مجلس الوزراء التي دعا إلى انعقادها في السراي الأربعاء المقبل، مشيرةً إلى أنّ الجدول يتضمن 52 بنداً أغلبها بنود مالية، بينما أبرزها بند يخصّ وزارة الدفاع الوطني ويتضمن الموافقة على تطويع 4000 عسكري في الجيش

So it's a good or bad thing?

Hopefully a good thing.
The meeting includes 52 clauses (says the article), hopefully one of them will be the new interest plans.

So i guess its gonna be next week again lol

I do hope not though