I don't understand, starting February any phone you bring yourself (online or by travel) will have to be registered at the airport but no customs to pay?
infiniteloop wroteI don't understand, starting February any phone you bring yourself (online or by travel) will have to be registered at the airport but no customs to pay?
-starting February any phone you bring yourself (online or by travel) will have to be registered at the airport ==> True. But not sure if at the airport or the ministry of telecommunications in case of travel.
-no customs to pay ==> for online purchases (like aliexpress) you will have to pay the customs; for personal travel, you won't need to.
My items I ordered 20 Nov arrived today.
Earphones and audio cables.
No customs , great condition.
nefe_lpmk wroteMy items I ordered 20 Nov arrived today.
Earphones and audio cables.
No customs , great condition.
Cgz---that gives me hope.
Customs on smartphones then, not everything from AE
LifeEngineer wrote
infiniteloop wroteI don't understand, starting February any phone you bring yourself (online or by travel) will have to be registered at the airport but no customs to pay?
-starting February any phone you bring yourself (online or by travel) will have to be registered at the airport ==> True. But not sure if at the airport or the ministry of telecommunications in case of travel.
-no customs to pay ==> for online purchases (like aliexpress) you will have to pay the customs; for personal travel, you won't need to.
So can i order online, travel somewhere or give it to someone traveling for tourism somewhere, then come back and register it at the airport?
7 days later
Geez this customs are really slowing everything down, they should hire more ''active'' people, I have a small item (2 Gopro mounts) since Monday with the customs, the week is finished and it didn't move yet. I wonder if they are not passing some people before others as usual in this country of ''wasayet''. I need these mounts to make ski videos for my vlog
22 days later
LifeEngineer wroteWatch out guys:
Don't order any cell phone online anymore, unless you know what you're up to.
There's a new law that forbids foreign phones to work on our network, unless you register the IMEI and pay the customs fees.
Is this law applicable yet? I want to order a new phone ?
Hybrid wrote
LifeEngineer wroteWatch out guys:
Don't order any cell phone online anymore, unless you know what you're up to.
There's a new law that forbids foreign phones to work on our network, unless you register the IMEI and pay the customs fees.
Is this law applicable yet? I want to order a new phone ?
I remember this law being active in 2014 or 2015 but was canceled when the minister of Telecom changed. I hope it's not coming back because it was a huge hassle
Hybrid wrote
LifeEngineer wroteWatch out guys:
Don't order any cell phone online anymore, unless you know what you're up to.
There's a new law that forbids foreign phones to work on our network, unless you register the IMEI and pay the customs fees.
Is this law applicable yet? I want to order a new phone ?
I will let you know IF I ever get my phone. I ordered it just after Christmas and it has been "in country" for 3 weeks now, so in the next couple of weeks, I am either going to get my phone, or my money back. Still hoping for the former.

I guess customs do things at their own pace if they ever show up.
Hybrid wrote Is this law applicable yet? I want to order a new phone ?
I suffered from it / experienced it last month.
LifeEngineer wrote
Hybrid wrote Is this law applicable yet? I want to order a new phone ?
I suffered from it / experienced it last month.
Can you please share how did you exactly register it? And any fees beside customs?
BTW do you have to unregister your phone number from the phone before sellign it to anyone like we used to do 2-3 years ago?
Hybrid wrote
LifeEngineer wrote
Hybrid wrote Is this law applicable yet? I want to order a new phone ?
I suffered from it / experienced it last month.
Can you please share how did you exactly register it? And any fees beside customs?
Got a msg from Libanpost that i have a stopped/held item at Jemrok and that i need to go pick it from the airport.
Went to Libanpost at the airport. They opened the package and checked the phone name/model and gave it to me as a paper to go to DHL warehouse (although it was a regular aliexpress shipping) to ask for someone (forgot her name).
She asked for the phone order bill/receipt. Told her it was on aliexpress. She said fine show me the order. Luckily for me, xiaomi adopts some weird/tricky naming conventio, so I told her it was on my ipad and i don’t have it on my phone (just to evade the true price) and then googled xiaomi redmi 4 price instead of redmi note 4 and showed her that it’s only 120$ instead of the true 200. She was like note 4 and i can’t see note word here, i told look it’s the same. She filled some papers and asked to go to the ministry at downtown to register it (the IMEI needs to be registered on the network for it to work. It will work for couple of months i think without that registration tho, only.). She still priced it at 200000LL tho.
I went there and filled some papers. They asked for the phone catalogs. I got it printed in a nearby libanpost.
Needed to wait for 2 days for the papers to get signed.
Got them and headed back to the airport. They got those papers and made me pay the Jemrok.
Then got the receipt and went back to Libanpost there in the airport and got my phone.

A long ugly process. May look simple now, but it was a pain to drive in lots and lots of traffic and have to be late at work or leave work to go there! I wouldn’t order any phone again until they cancel that bullshit.

Jemrok was about maybe 50000LL if i remember well and if i add parking fees, tawabe3, etc i end up with like 65000LL (neglecting fuel and time and effort).
LifeEngineer wrote
Hybrid wrote
LifeEngineer wrote
I suffered from it / experienced it last month.
Can you please share how did you exactly register it? And any fees beside customs?
Got a msg from Libanpost that i have a stopped/held item at Jemrok and that i need to go pick it from the airport.
Went to Libanpost at the airport. They opened the package and checked the phone name/model and gave it to me as a paper to go to DHL warehouse (although it was a regular aliexpress shipping) to ask for someone (forgot her name).
She asked for the phone order bill/receipt. Told her it was on aliexpress. She said fine show me the order. Luckily for me, xiaomi adopts some weird/tricky naming conventio, so I told her it was on my ipad and i don’t have it on my phone (just to evade the true price) and then googled xiaomi redmi 4 price instead of redmi note 4 and showed her that it’s only 120$ instead of the true 200. She was like note 4 and i can’t see note word here, i told look it’s the same. She filled some papers and asked to go to the ministry at downtown to register it (the IMEI needs to be registered on the network for it to work. It will work for couple of months i think without that registration tho, only.). She still priced it at 200000LL tho.
I went there and filled some papers. They asked for the phone catalogs. I got it printed in a nearby libanpost.
Needed to wait for 2 days for the papers to get signed.
Got them and headed back to the airport. They got those papers and made me pay the Jemrok.
Then got the receipt and went back to Libanpost there in the airport and got my phone.

A long ugly process. May look simple now, but it was a pain to drive in lots and lots of traffic and have to be late at work or leave work to go there! I wouldn’t order any phone again until they cancel that bullshit.

Jemrok was about maybe 50000LL if i remember well and if i add parking fees, tawabe3, etc i end up with like 65000LL (neglecting fuel and time and effort).
Don't complain! everyone does this including amhaz for all his phones !
NuclearVision wrote Don't complain! everyone does this including amhaz for all his phones !
Not true. Resellers or store owners simply have another procedure which mass-register all the phones at once.
They get previous approvals and IMEIs registered before the phones actually reach here.

Doing this procedure for every phone is obviously stupid and not feasible / very time consuming.
LifeEngineer wrote
NuclearVision wrote Don't complain! everyone does this including amhaz for all his phones !
Doing this procedure for every phone is obviously stupid and not feasible / very time consuming.
and that's why i was being sarcastic. But add the word 'unfair'
I brought 4 phones from outside just 5 months ago. None were registered and all of them are working fine till today.
Are you sure about this?
LifeEngineer wrote
Hybrid wrote Is this law applicable yet? I want to order a new phone ?
I suffered from it / experienced it last month.
beezer wroteI brought 4 phones from outside just 5 months ago. None were registered and all of them are working fine till today.
Are you sure about this?
LifeEngineer wrote
Hybrid wrote Is this law applicable yet? I want to order a new phone ?
I suffered from it / experienced it last month.
No, I'm not sure I was hallucinating.

Now seriously, it's a relatively new law and you luckily missed it.