4. ADSL started in June 2007, but this market is facing a lot of bottlenecks which hinder the wide adoption of true broadband serviceswww.ontornet.org Alcatel-Lucent after conducting a case study about the Lebanese Internet market conducted in 2005: “Lebanon finds itself in a situation unique in the world, where DSL and WiMAX will be launched in parallel. Both infrastructures will complement one another. DSL will be deployed in large cities; WiMAX will be deployed in large cities as a mobile complement to DSL, and as a main broadband access method elsewhere. The WiMAX strategy also benefits from the lack of 3G services in Lebanon. For an overall initial deployment of about 70,000 users, it is expected to reach break–even in a 24–30 month timeframe.”
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6. Unfair access to the central office: DSP collocation to Ogero central offices is not transparent nor fair, contrary to the provisions of fair competition between private operators and Ogero stipulated for in the ADSL related decrees (currently DSPs are collocated in only 35 Cos our of the 98 existing ones)
7. DSPs are not allowed to connect to ISPs other than their sister company (except for GDS, which is connected to two ISPs, Cyberia and IDM.
8. A subscriber needs to cancel his subscription, pay new installation fees and wait for a new subscription to be provided in case a customer wants to change his provider.www.ontornet.org
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10. It does not support high speed internet access, digital media services such as IPTV/VoD, online gaming, e-commerce, teleconferences, etc…
11. MoT Metro Ethernet network used for ADSL services is getting saturated by the increased needs of ADSL subscribers and therefore MoT started the expansion and modernization of its national transmission network to lay down a fully meshed fiber optic network of 4400 km of backbone along with versatile Active switching and cross connect components.
12. There are no wholesale backhaul bundled offers; DSPs and ISPs are still connected by network links of 100 Mbits/s
13. Coverage: ADSL is not available in all areas of Lebanon, in addition that many Ogero nodes (Central Offices) present in rural area do not support ADSL
20. To cater for growing demand in High Speed Internet services, major investments are currently undertaken by the MoT to increase the existing international bandwidth capacity. (why can’t we see any improvements then?) ? www.ontornet.org
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22. “Participation in the ownership of the new high capacity submarine cable system that will provide Lebanon, upon its service commissioning, with 120 Gbps of international bandwidth capacity”
23. “Expanding existing submarine Fiber Optical Cable (Cadmus) by adding capacity of around 210Gbps between November and December 2010, and thus increasing the current capacity by 168 times”www.ontornet.org
24. Then WHY haven’t we witnessed any improvements even though the facts mentioned in the previous slide were implemented? www.ontornet.org
25. In the following slides you will read about a lot of technical terms, bear with us. www.ontornet.org
33. Our international gateway (the door) to the internet had been upgraded (as per the minister), but still nothing improved for Lebanese Internet users.
34. The work on the national backbone (the Lebanese internal network) has started but it’s commissioning has been postponed many times.
35. Our prices are the amongst the highest in the world compared to what we get, and the Lebanese authorities indirectly monopolize everything related to that sector minimizing any improvements or competition between ISPs.
40. OGERO: Ogero doesn’t act under the supervision of the Ministry of Telecom: according to a law (number 431) implemented back in 2002, Ogero is independent from the Ministry of Telecom. It only refers to the cabinet مجلس الوزراء
41. TRA:The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) was established in accordance with Law 431 of 2002 as an independent public institution assigned to liberalize, regulate, and develop telecommunications in Lebanon.
44. A verbal war triangle between them three, where each side points the finger to the other party (ies) as being the reason behind us being obsolete in the telecom domain.Conclusion www.ontornet.org
58. OECD: The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, An international agency which supports programs designed to facilitate trade and development
60. Central Office: The facility of a telecommunications common carrier where calls are switched
61. PSTN: The public switched telephone network (PSTN) is the network of the world's public circuit-switched telephone networksGlossary www.ontornet.org
