IMEWE cable launching in Lebanon this summer

MegaCool · 2011-06-26T09:12:16+00:00

Quote from Samer Karam - Flip the Switch. BREAKING NEWS: sources have informed me that the lighting of the IMEWE cable HAS BEGUN! a TIER 1 contract has been...

z0uz

I'm watching the news they didn't mention anything

mahmoud-brk

It seems they didn't even finish the 73 items scheduled for today, and they'll do an exceptional meeting Monday, and another normal meeting Wednesday. So we must wait for Wednesday!

xterm

Monday's meeting will only deal with one issue.

Kassem

xterm wroteMonday's meeting will only deal with one issue.

What issue?

Chup

Kassem wrote
xterm wroteMonday's meeting will only deal with one issue.
What issue?

NOT the internet =p

xterm

Kassem wroteWhat issue?

مدير الأمن العام

kareem_nasser

Thats a tough one, hope it doesn't drag too long. :(

xterm

Well it's also been said that: لا خلاف على منصب مدير الأمن العام

Although I'm seriously doubting it.

kareem_nasser

Much to our luck, the government is single sided(uni-polar) so the problems will decrease. Our only concern is that some issues wont drag too long forcing us to wait longer. As you can see on Flip The Switch the guys are on a posting frenzy.

HotCreep

Yea, we tend to do that when anticipating internet upgrades.

Nemesis-301

is it because of the release of Estonian hostages that the internet wasnt discussed?

babum

Respecting the bandwidth from IMEWE, how much wil be assigned to Lebanon? or at least how will they divide it?

Mhmd

30 Gbps as a first step is assigned to Lebanon . . . . information got from Mobi
but don't know how much is the bandwidth of Cadmus ? it's old version was 622 Mbps but now I don't have an idea about the bandwidth of the new version

xterm

Nemesis-301 wroteis it because of the release of Estonian hostages that the internet wasnt discussed?

No, it's because they consolidated 72 points for a single meeting and they didn't consider that some points might take time.

Obviously there are more important things to discuss.

babum

that's good, isn't the current capacity according to the newspapers around 5Gbps for legal connections?

then it would be around 6x more capacity, awesome

hussam

how often do they do those meetings?

xterm

babum wrotethat's good, isn't the current capacity according to the newspapers around 5Gbps for legal connections?

2.5

xterm

hussam wrotehow often do they do those meetings?

There no specific schedule, they agree upon it. Though you should expect at east one or 2 per week at the beginning.

WizaRd

Probably the prices and plans will be in action beginning of September. I think.

4peterkh4

Source: Lebanese Want Fast Internet - Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/fastlebanon

Recap of today's interview on VDL (voix du liban):

During a lively discussion between Nour Kaasamani & Fast Lebanon founder & volunteers (Mark Daou, Claude Jabre, Mohamad Chamas), the following has been stated:

- What has been achieved so far:
IMEWE is turned on, capacities have been distributed to ISP's.

- What is left to achieve:
ISP's distributing the capacities to the end-users. Thus making them accountable. (Getting what you pay for fully; getting all 512kbps if you pay for them)
The council of ministers should implement a new plan & pricing chart to improve speed and increase quotas dramatically.
Using caching systems and specific configurations to not utilize the international bandwidth and decreasing the national consumption.
In the future, there should be a good plan to improve the national infrastructure & to keep upgrading the international bandwidth by setting up more international cables and hooking up with old ones.

The interview will be posted online shortly for the ones who missed it

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