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Originally Posted by elchebib  I commend your efforts and all the efforts of the Broadband Manifesto and all the people behind it.
However, I'm still very skeptical about the whole Internet services and speeds being upgraded in Lebanon and provided at relatively good prices with unlimited qouta (or large qoutas for that matter).
In Lebanon we're in a desperate situation, there isn't enough international bandwidth, this bandwidth is controlled by a monopoly, we have disastrous infrastructure and fiber cables are no where to be seen (except in select areas). In addition, there are a billion things that need to be fixed. Electricity, water, health, the debt, security and many many more. I just can't see Lebanese politicians turning their heads to the internet development when such things remain in miserable conditions. When such countries as Finland labeling internet connectivity as a civil right and Korea planning for 1 Gbps connections in 2012 (that's only 3 years down the road), it really pisses me off to see such a small country having trouble with broadband deployment and development.
To get me wrong, I do commend you on all your efforts and wish you the best of luck. And, yes, I did sign the manifesto and had several of my friends to do that.
Someone has to start something somewhere  |
Glad to read that you and some your friends signed the Manifesto, hopefully the friends of your friends signed it as well
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Seeing the list of companies that endorse the manifesto is encouraging; one can read the following names, amongst others:
- Al Bustan Hotel
- Al Jadeed TV
- Annahar
- BLF Bank
- Cisco
- Data Consult
- Fransabank
- Get for Less
- Grey Matter SARL
- Impact BBDO SAL
- Lebanese American University
- Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation LBCI
- MEDCO S.A.L
- Murex Systems
- Play Lebanon
- etc
Let's help them gather more signatures. LBSG guys claim they still need to gather ~3 500 signatures to reach 10 000 signatures. I assume there should be further steps toward true broadband once that number is reached.
17th October 2009
17th October 2009
