Deek urged the Telecommunications Ministry to start providing entrepreneurs and citizens in Lebanon with unlimited broadband connections to improve investment flows in the country.
“The ministry is able to provide Lebanese individuals and companies with unlimited broadband connections starting today because the India-Middle East-Western Europe submarine cable is already in place and it has the ability to supply Lebanon with 120GB of broadband capacity,” he said.
“The cable is already in place but we were waiting for Egypt to open the bandwidth transfer and we will be hopefully launching IMEWE during December, so we are expecting to see improvements in connections starting January or February 2011,” he said.
I can't help but notice that the person quoted here is Gabriel Deek, a person that is in no way connected to the Ministry of Telecommunications. So I'm not sure how authoritative he is on the subject. I think all of this still depends on the politicians. All of us will continue to suffer until they can get their act together.
Yes, I am a pessimist. But considering that we've been hearing the same story for years, who can blame me?
