Nahas plan to upgrade Lebanon's broadband

Xsever

Article from The Daily Star:

BEIRUT: Telecommunications Minister Charbel Nahas proposed Tuesday a series of measures to upgrade and modernize the broadband system in Lebanon in 2010 at a cost of LL250 billion ($166 million). Nahas, speaking at the opening of a broadband conference at the Phoenicia Hotel, said these proposals had been mentioned in the ministry’s draft budget which was submitted to the minister of finance.

He added that cable stretching from India, Middle East and Europe with an international internet capacity would become operational in May 2010.

“I also propose leasing additional gateways from different internet providers to increase the capacity of the internet network once the marine cable becomes operational,” he said.

“This way the capacity would rise from the current 2 megabits capacity to 120 megabits,” the minister added. – The Daily Star

Link: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=3&article_id=110864

What do you guys think? Anything new or same old blabbing?

J4D

166 million !! let him give us one of these millions and LIX will be up in 2 days , rather then never , and money sucked up .

rolf

If they manage this the way they managed DSL, then by the time they secured necessary funds, lobbied to make everyone happy, done all the paperwork, bought and shipped the equipment, installed it, trained the operators, settled the legal situation and rolled it out to the market, the technology will already be obsolete.
But lets hope it goes different this time!

Xsever wroteWhat do you guys think? Anything new or same old blabbing?

I say give us the 2mbits we already have, first!

rolf

BTW, duplicate thread:
http://www.lebgeeks.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=5942

elchebib

Xsever wroteArticle from The Daily Star:
BEIRUT: Telecommunications Minister Charbel Nahas proposed Tuesday a series of measures to upgrade and modernize the broadband system in Lebanon in 2010 at a cost of LL250 billion ($166 million). Nahas, speaking at the opening of a broadband conference at the Phoenicia Hotel, said these proposals had been mentioned in the ministry’s draft budget which was submitted to the minister of finance.

He added that cable stretching from India, Middle East and Europe with an international internet capacity would become operational in May 2010.

“I also propose leasing additional gateways from different internet providers to increase the capacity of the internet network once the marine cable becomes operational,” he said.

“This way the capacity would rise from the current 2 Gigabits capacity to 120 Gigabits,” the minister added. – The Daily Star
Link: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=3&article_id=110864

What do you guys think? Anything new or same old blabbing?

Wrong translation..... Corrected above.... He was talking about the international bandwidth and not the connection speed for the end user....

Xsever

Let's just hope something serious gets done this time. I know hoping won't fix things, but that's all we can do besides LIX maybe.

Samer feel free to merge the two threads. My title was more precise and I thought the other thread was just another regular discussion one.

elchebib

Xsever wroteLet's just hope something serious gets done this time. I know hoping won't fix things, but that's all we can do besides LIX maybe.

Samer feel free to merge the two threads. My title was more precise and I thought the other thread was just another regular discussion one.

^^^ Agree with merging...

samer

Dupe: http://www.lebgeeks.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=5946