Sehnaoui Promises Return of Internet Services Friday
Ogero Telecom General Director Abdul Monem Youssef revealed on Friday that the internet services breakdown will last for not less than a week, while Telecommunications Minister Nicolas Sehnaoui promised that it will return to normal as of today.
“Ogero is working on finding an alternative to provide the citizens with internet service across the country until the malfunction is fixed,” Youssef told al-Liwaa newspaper.
The breakdown in internet services breakdown in Lebanon is due to a malfunctioning IMEWE cable in Alexandria in Egypt.
IMEWE (India-Middle East-Western Europe) is an ultra-high capacity fiber optic submarine cable system which links India and Europe via Middle East.
“The internet services will return to normal as of Friday, while repairing the IMEWE cable might require a week” Sahnaoui told LBC television.
He later contacted President Michel Suleiman informing him that the internet services in Lebanon have been restored.
Youssef lashed out at the Telecommunications Ministry, stressing that Ogero is the only side that is exerting efforts to provide internet, denying that the ministry is playing a role in resolving the crisis.
He reiterated that Ogero isn’t accountable for the malfunction, pointing out that the Telecom Ministry is directly responsible for all the issues linked to the IMEWE submarine cable.
Therefore, Youssef said that it was the ministry’s responsibility to inform the Lebanese about the malfunction that hit the cable.
Lebanon has been witnessing from the beginning of the week slow internet service, bringing it into a complete halt for several hours.
Telecommunications Minister Nicolas Sehnaoui said on Thursday that the ministry is working on transferring the internet services to the cable in Cyprus without the need to pay any additional cost.
Asked if Ogero and the Telecom Ministry are cooperating among each other, Youssef said that Ogero is working day and night to provide the country with all the necessary services, while all that others do is accuse it of negligence.
The Telecoms Ministry agreed in February with Cypriot authorities to establish a new submarine cable, which will act as a backup, preventing a complete breakdown in Lebanon’s internet service if the IMEWE cable is affected by a malfunction.
06 July 2012, 10:18
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The error message on the screen is not related to internet services being down ... you may want to change the picture perhaps?
06 July 2012, 10:28
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I applied for a phone line a few months ago.
OGERO told me that it needs at least 1 to 1.5 years to be installed!!!
Great job OGERO... it's a stupid land line. They clearly don't want to work.
06 July 2012, 11:39
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Again SHAME on this Minister, His cabinet, His consultants, OGERO, anyone for that matter who claimed working on the ICT file in Lebanon professionally, NO Backbone, NO redundancy, NO resiliency, NO Exchange, NO QS, NO KPIs, NO SLA with providers that by it self and based on the Minster himself we did not have, for GOD sake we are not buying vegetables, etc... GET someone with basic 101 in Engineering to handle this sector. ENOUGH
06 July 2012, 13:03
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Which army you talking about???the lebanese army is the most corrupted institution in the countryThe lebanese always fail to mention that 36% of our budget is spent on a useless army that serves for nothing.
This army might send the 8th brigade to Ain el remeneh if 2 14 yrs old kids had a fight,is the same army that failed to protect Samer Hanna.
This army who shot The muslim clergy for an alleged non stop at a checkpoint never ignores the daily Syrian attacks on the lebanese soil.
Ou ajmal min hayda killo,their retirement pensions for the 25 years of
wars was trippled case a year of war is considered 3 years in active service,so for all the fat lebanese soldiers who belonged to the army during the 25 years of war AND DID NOTHING ,got 75 yrs Ret pension.
Luckily i don t live in the country otherwise i would have had the whole bloody army at my door step for voicing my opinion
