Internet situation in Lebanon

invalid-user-43

Has there been any announced plans to upgrade the internet infrastructure in Lebanon and/or supply more bandwidth ?

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nuclearcat

After Gebran Bassil departure (thanks to his generous help for Lebanese ISP business, cutting, blaming, closing, talking on TV, but nothing doing to improve) most ISP's is just trying to survive. Except Ogero for sure.
Ogero got big power, and unfair advantage (they don't give international capacity at all for ISP's since Gebran Bassil came, and they have monopoly for it) and finishing Iran/Syria/Saudi-like filtering system.
I am not sure internet will exist tomorrow in Lebanon.

invalid-user-43

did the ISP's tried to contact the new minister ?

nuclearcat

He didnt adapt yet on new place, as i know
At least 6 month he need to grab current situation.

samer

and finishing Iran/Syria/Saudi-like filtering system.

Internet filtering? Can you provide more details?

rolf

The current minister of telecom has a (way) more impressive CV then the previous one, although he does not have an engineering background. He comes from the banking sector, which is about the only thing that works in Lebanon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charbel_Nahas

Gebran Bassil, on the other hand, was married to Michel Aouns daughter...

Let's hope he wont turn out worst then the previous one. Aint nothing worst than a fool, but an educated fool.

J4D

ma here is the problem , i hoped Aoun would assign George baroud a telecommunication engineer ! , but i dont know why he put nahhas ! and who knows what would happen to telecom if you put a banker as a head !

Joe

Let's not judge a man on his background and pray (really pray, that's all we can do) that things will be different this time.

The filtering thing seems scary, we should monitor closely so that something like this doesn't happen in Leb.

WizaRd

I personally wouldn't mind whoever political party the minister is affiliated with as long as my packets reach their destinations under 100ms and as long as my 750MB movies finish in 5 minutes. Okay well, not 5 minutes, but definitely not 5 days.

Simply put, give the Lebanese people some decent internet and you, dear minister, can be from any religion, race, color and political party you want!

J4D

well said :)

nuclearcat

samer wrote
and finishing Iran/Syria/Saudi-like filtering system.
Internet filtering? Can you provide more details?

I cannot give all details.
Check SIP on Ogero DSL. It is already blocked.
Some advanced cellular phones who works over internet (not VoIP) features also blocked, i dont remember exact name of protocol.
It is only a beginning.

nuclearcat

rolf wroteThe current minister of telecom has a (way) more impressive CV then the previous one, although he does not have an engineering background. He comes from the banking sector, which is about the only thing that works in Lebanon.

Bassil have technical background, but when he try to act as tech on TV... well, most of scholars in Lebanon can beat him in knowledge.
Minister should be just smart person, he don't need to know technical details.
He have employees for that, and more important to manage people right way, and take right decisions in time.

Xsever

Flyingwizard wroteI personally wouldn't mind whoever political party the minister is affiliated with as long as my packets reach their destinations under 100ms and as long as my 750MB movies finish in 5 minutes. Okay well, not 5 minutes, but definitely not 5 days.

Simply put, give the Lebanese people some decent internet and you, dear minister, can be from any religion, race, color and political party you want!

Couldn't agree more with you. Technology does not care for these things !