Re: DSL in Lebanon
- From: "Joseph Mouhanna" <josephmo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 14:19:42 GMT
Amazing! DSL in Lebanon. Unfortunately, the current minister of telecom
inherited an organization where nothing has happened in years. Worse, what
had happened under his predecessor has made it more difficult to make any
progress.
In any case, DSL is yesterday's technology and Lebanon is better off going
with FTTH.
"BM" <m-e-d-a-w-a-r@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:deginp$ft8$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Two articles about DSL in Lebanon:
>
> http://www.ameinfo.com/66244.html
>
> Would legal ADSL service in Lebanon finally stamp out the ISP black
> market?
> The long awaited ADSL service in Lebanon is to be launched in 2006.
>
> The Arab Advisors Group expects an immediate healthy uptake of the ADSL
> service, which will contribute towards enhancing the position of the
> regulated legal ISPs.
>
> As expected from a country with a high educational level and a relatively
> open society, Lebanon has one of the highest Internet penetration rates in
> the Arab World. The operations of the 6 main ISPs, in addition to the
> black market Internet providers contributed to the growth in Internet
> subscribers at a CAGR of 18.2% over the period 2000-2004. By end of 2004
> the total Internet subscribers stood at around 195,000 (a penetration rate
> of 5.3%), of which some 70,000 were subscribers of black market ISPs.
>
> A new report, 'Lebanon Internet and Datacomm Landscape Report' was
> released to the Arab Advisors Group's Telecoms Strategic Research Service
> subscribers on August 21, 2005. This report can be purchased from the Arab
> Advisors Group for only US$ 850. The 43-pages report, which has 30
> detailed exhibits, provides a detailed analysis of the Lebanese Internet,
> Data and content markets and profiles all the major data operators and
> ISPs in the country. Please contact the Arab Advisors Group to get a copy
> of the reports Table of Contents.
>
> Any investment in this report will count towards an annual Strategic
> Research Service subscription should the service be acquired within three
> months from purchasing the report.
>
> 'Between 2005 and 2009, we project Lebanon's Internet market to grow by a
> CAGR of 14.8% to reach 400,000 accounts in 2009 (a penetration rate of
> 10.1%). The number of Internet users is expected to reach the 1 million
> users milestone in 2009 (a user penetration rate of 25.2%) compared to
> around 656,000 in 2004 (a user penetration rate of 17.5%).' Mr. Andrawes
> Snobar, Arab Advisors Senior Research Analyst wrote in the report.
>
> 'The ADSL saga is still ongoing in Lebanon. Ogero had planned to introduce
> the ADSL service as early as end of 2002. This was highly expected
> specially with the completion of the advanced Ethernet network, which
> allows Ogero to introduce more advanced communication services such as
> xDSL and VLANs at much more scalable levels. Still, by mid 2005, Lebanon
> is yet to have an operational ADSL service. If the service was introduced
> as expected within the year 2006, the Arab Advisors Group expects it to
> make up an initial 2.5% of the total Internet accounts in 2006. This
> percentage will increase fast due to the late introduction of the ADSL
> service as pent-up demand is met.' Mr. Snobar added.
>
> http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=3&article_id=17908
>
> Wednesday, August 24, 2005
> DSL can increase Lebanon's Internet usage
> By Bechir Saade
> Daily Star staff
>
> BEIRUT: A leading telecom expert urged the government to choose an
> appropriate infrastructure service in order to modernize the Internet
> sector. Riyad Bahsoun, chairman of the Middle East International
> Telecommunication Union, was commenting on a recently released report by
> the Arab Adviser Group that said the introduction of the Digital
> Subscriber Line (DSL) service in 2006, would possibly contribute to a
> significant rise in Internet usage and decrease in black market Internet
> Service Providers (ISP).
>
> According to Bahsoun, the "Telecommunication Ministry should concentrate
> on more up-to-date technology such as fiber to the home (FTTH) to quickly
> fill the important gap from which Lebanon is suffering."
>
> DSL is high-speed Internet system using a sophisticated modulation scheme
> to pack data onto copper wires such as telephone line, whereas FTTH uses
> fiber-optic cables that have enormous bandwidth and use light pulses to
> carry information and can be placed underground.
>
> "Between 2005 and 2009, we project Lebanon's Internet market to grow by
> 14.8 percent to reach 400,000 accounts in 2009," reaching the
> one-million-user milestone in 2009, and around 656,000 in 2004, according
> to the Arab Adviser Group Report.
>
> Although the introduction of DSL services can be a factor for decrease in
> pirating activities, as it would make Internet a less-costly service, it
> is far from being the only one said Cyberia's CEO Bassam Jaber.
>
> "The government will find it in its interest to step in to make sure
> people supplying illegally are sanctioned as they are not paying taxes"
> added Jaber.
>
> According to Bahsoun "The Arab Advisers Group saw an opportunity to sell a
> report based on a conversation with the former telecommunications minister
> that mentioned the possibility of installing DSL equipment."
>
> "In order to increase the speed carried by the existing public
> infrastructure, public switch telephony network and allow the provisioning
> of data services, you need to improve the existing copper wires by adding
> DSL equipment (modem switches)" said Bahsoun.
>
> The resulting increase in speed is tremendous: four times higher than the
> current connection Lebanese experience.
>
> In Lebanon there is a project considered at the Telecommunication Ministry
> known as the Public Data Network that aims to achieve this objective.
>
> "But this project has been under consideration for six years now and was
> never implemented and will likely not be in the near future" said Bahsoun.
>
> Lebanon has the weakest Internet infrastructure in the Arab world. "Even
> the West Bank and Sudan has DSL despite all the unrest these two regions
> witness," said Bahsoun, adding that the successive lobbying could not get
> the government to expand Internet capacity. As a result, Lebanon has the
> lowest level in terms of Internet technology today compared to 1996 when
> it was leading the region said Bahsoun.
>
> "The current minister is really interested in finding the best solution
> for the sector," said Jaber, assuring that the government has never been
> as serious about the issue as it is today. Jaber estimated that DSL
> technology would be installed in approximately three months.
.
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