Communications in Lebanon
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This article concerns the systems of communication in Lebanon. Lebanon possesses a number of systems of telecommunication, some of which are currently being reconstructed following damage during the civil war. The country code and top-level domain for Lebanon is "LB".
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[edit] Telephone
There are 700,000 telephone main lines, and 600,000 mobile telephones in use in Lebanon. The telephone system experienced severe damage during the civil war, but was completetly rebuilt and revamped. The systems that provide the infrastructure for the telephone network are, domestically, microwave radio relay stations and cables, and internationally, two Intelsat satellite-earth stations, a coaxial cable, and microwave radio relay station to Syria and three submarine coaxial cables.
[edit] Free Radio and TV Broadcasting in Lebanon
Lebanon possesses one AM radio broadcast station, and 32 FM radio broadcast stations. As of 2005, there are 28 privately owned FM radio stations. One FM station, which shifts between French, English, and Armenian, and the sole AM radio station, which broadcasts solely in Arabic, are owned by the state-owned Radio Lebanon, which is responsible to the Ministry of Information. Radio Lebanon also relays Radio France International at 13:00 (UTC) daily. Among private broadcasters are the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation(LBCI), National Broadcasting Network, Radio One, and the Voice of Tomorrow. [1] There are 2.85 million radios is Lebanon. Furthermore, Lebanon has two digital cable television companies, Cable Vision and echonet.
There are 28 television broadcast stations in Lebanon, although the application of the Audiovisual law has caused the closure of a number of TV stations. The PAL television standard is used in Lebanon. Except for the stated-owned Télé-Liban, most broadcasters run commercials and are privately owned. Some of the most important television networks are the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation, Future Television,Orange TV or O TV [1], NBN, and New TV. [2] Some of the television networks have definite political connections. OTV, for instance, is pro-Aoun, while Al-Manar TV is pro-Hezbollah and NBN is pro-Berri. There are 1.18 million televisions in Lebanon.
[edit] Paid Radio and TV in Lebanon
There are two cable TV companies in Lebanon: Cable Vision [2] and Echo Net.
[edit] Internet and ADSL Services in Lebanon
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Internet services are administered in Lebanon by the Ministry of Telecommuniaion (http://www.mpt.gov.lb/). Lebanon provides three types of services: dialup services, wireless Internet service and ADSL. Typically, dialup services cost around $7 a month but users have to pay for the cost of phone communication. ADSL was offered for the first time in 2007 and there are currently (as of October 2007) 14,000 subscribers. The ADSL network is still under development in some cities or rural areas. The prices for ADSL varies depending on the DSP but typically cost from $19/month (128 kpbs) to 70$/month (1 Mbit/s). Wireless Internet services were offered for the first time in 2006 and cost around $45/month. Wireless high-speed internet is portable; users can connect anytime anywhere, in the office, on the mountain or by the sea and it provides very high speed with a download rate nearing 512 kbit/s.
The following ISPs/DSPs exist in Lebanon:
Blink (OGERO), Cyberia, IDM, NewCOM Fiberlink, Sodetel, Terranet, Trinec (ASP), Netlink, Farah Net, Virtual ISP, Lebanon OnLine, WISE Moscanet.
[edit] References
- ^ World Radio Television Handbook (WRTH), 2005.
- ^ World Radio Television Handbook (WRTH), 2005.
Much of the information in this article is adapted from the CIA World Factbook.
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