Think Your Broadband Stinks? - Try getting a decent connection in Lebanon
14th Nov 2006, 16:13 GMT
Broadband was only made available in Lebanon around 2004, and one company has been awarded exclusive rights to licensed data lines. The company is owned by a relative of the country's President, and if you don't like it, too bad. So far, your only choices have been 128 ($45), 256 ($100) and 512kbps cable ($175), and you're lucky if your real speeds challenge dial-up, notes Ya Libnan. VoIP services have been banned, and to enforce it, the government has implemented a 32kbps maximum upload speed for residential broadband service. For these reasons, as many as one-third of Lebanon's approximately 300,000 residential Internet customers connect to the web via an illegal ISP, notes the Lebanon Daily Star. The paper reports that DSL service is going to be made available from the nation's Telecom Ministry for the first time next March. "Cable is the best," says one illegal provider from Kaslik.
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