"After two years of work, the
fiber optics network is ready in 170 telephone areas, and we sent a letter to [state-run telephone land line operator] OGERO to detail their financial and technical requirements to expand it to the remaining areas, which do not yet have DSL," he said.
BEIRUT: Lebanon will complete linking telecom switchboards to a fiber-optics network in April 2013, paving the way for the launchof the fourth generation of mobile networks in major cities, the telecommunications minister said over the weekend."Switchboards across the country will be linked through a comprehensive
fiber optics network ...
Summary: Solidere is pinning hopes on an ultrafast 100 megabyte-per-second fiber optics network to help transform Beirut's central district into a technology hub.
BEIRUT: Solidere is pinning hopes on an ultrafast 100 megabyte-per-second fiber optics network to help transform Beirut's central district into a technology hub, the firm said Thursday.
A project expanding the fiber optics network is currently under way and is set to be finalized in two years.