hi every1, this my first post here, and i know alot info about dial-up, broadd..(well almost realy broadband connection), and the illegal way, a ehernitic device connected to ur that the host's computer gets the internet from the isp which get from other countries, or in other words(Cable), or how they say it there (local cable guy).
DSL is delayed almost 4 a year now in lebanon, Lebanon is technologically worldwide known 4 1 of the weakest internet, countryies in the middle east, the telecommunation company, named Ogero said thet they r 99% sure that DSL will arrive in Lebanon, for more forum information go to this website www.the-lebanon.com, and there is the information that comes from the telecom:
Telecoms insiders expect high-speed Internet to arrive - at last - in March
By Michael Bluhm
Daily Star staff
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
BEIRUT: Consumers should expect high-speed DSL Internet service in March 2007, the director of a local Internet service provider (ISP) said on Tuesday, although details of the rollout such as the price of installation and monthly rates have yet to be settled. The Telecommunications Ministry, the state-owned telecom firm OGERO and providers have had two meetings in the past week to push forward the oft-postponed DSL service.
The delay in offering DSL is indicative of how Lebanon, some 10 years ago the first Arab country in the Levant to offer the Internet, now lags most of the Arab world in high-speed Internet access. The foot-dragging has cost Lebanon economic growth and foreign investment, experts say.
The March deadline was set Friday at a meeting at the ministry, according to Maroun Chammas, executive director of service provider IDM.
A meeting of the DSL Commercial Committee on Tuesday focused on the price ISPs will pay OGERO for the right to provide the new service, said attendee Carole Hage, sales manager at Terranet. The ministry has final say on the price.
The ministry has to overcome two key technical hurdles in delivering the new service: upgrading telephone switchboards in areas where DSL will be available and improving international phone lines to handle 1.5 gigabytes per second of data transfer.
Chammas told The Daily Star he was "99 percent" sure the March deadline will be met.
"It really looks much better than before," he said, referring to earlier delays.
ISPs are pushing the ministry to set prices because they expect keen interest in DSL and will be able to offer new products, Chammas said.
"Once DSL is available, people are going to get much better service," Chammas said.
Sam Masri, an employee in the corporate sales division of the ISP Fiberlink, said he expected prices to go down for users. The major ISPs in Lebanon offer broadband service for a $75 installation fee and $45 per month for a 128 kilobyte-per-second (kbps) connection, $100 for 256 kbps and $175 for 512 kbps.
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www.dailystar.com.lbThe ministry has floated a initial proposal for DSL user fees.
Under the proposed prices, DSL set-up would cost LL55,000 (about $37), while 128-kbps service would cost LL35,000 for home users and LL45,000 for businesses; 256 kbps would cost LL50,000 for homes, LL65,000 for businesses; and 512 kbps LL70,000 for home users and LL85,000 for businesses. Monthly downloads would be capped.
Problems with the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority could also affect the DSL rollout. The board governing the authority remains incomplete after President Emile Lahoud objected to certain nominees, whose names were subsequently withdrawn by Telecommunications Minister Marwan Hamdeh.
Because of the conflict regarding pricing structures, the ISPs need the regulatory body to set and enforce prices, Hage said.
"Without the proper regulatory authority, the services that we intend to provide are just frozen," Chammas said.
DSL also raises the issue of Internet telephony. Voice-over Internet Protocol (VoIP) remains banned in Lebanon, where telecommunications revenues account for 38 percent of the state budget.
DSL will allow bandwidth to improve enough to enable VoIP, although Hage said she thinks the government will maintain the ban on VoIP.
The budget dangers raised by VoIP have resonated throughout the region. The United Arab Emirates, for example, has recently banned Skype, the Swedish Internet telephony service that allows free calls between Internet users.
The lack of high-speed Internet in Lebanon has deterred foreign investors from setting up offices here, Chammas said.
"If they don't have access to large pipes and large bandwidth, big companies will not locate here," he said.
Hage said that multinationals were "surprised" by the weak and expensive IT infrastructure, which hurt Lebanon's image abroad.
DSL might also shut down illegal pirate guys, local cable guys..
for now, dial-up ah, the broadban.d and still illegal cable r the used internet in lebanon,
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OGero did have the technology for DSL, but the problem mostly is political
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State can't stop illegal ISPs - but DSL might
By Michael Bluhm
Daily Star staff
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
BEIRUT: As many as one-third of Lebanon's approximately 300,000 residential Internet customers connect to the Web illegally, according to estimates from legal and illegal Internet service providers (ISPs). The Telecommunications Ministry takes steps to fight piracy, but the easiest way to eliminate the Internet black market might be for the ministry to purchase more bandwidth abroad and make it available here, experts told The Daily Star this week.
High-speed DSL Internet service, scheduled to hit the market next March, could put the pirates out of business, or all sides could agree to allow pirate providers to enter the DSL business legitimately, experts said.
Estimates of the number of illegal residential connections vary, but Carole Hage, sales manager at Terranet, said a figure of about 100,000 was the industry's best guess. Pirate providers usually purchase their bandwidth legally - using a satellite to buy download bandwidth from abroad - but violate the law when they distribute the Internet by cable into people's homes.
Licensed ISPs said pirates had the advantage of being able to offer Internet access 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with no dial-up and no cap on downloads.
"Cable is the best," said an illegal provider from Kaslik.
Patrick Farajian, chairman and CEO of ISP Sodetel, said he was losing business to pirate ISPs because he faces higher costs for doing business legally, such as fulfilling public-information requirements and paying income taxes.
"We are at a competitive disadvantage," he said. "It's a very big issue."
The ministry is fighting the problem by reducing telephone costs for dial-up users and preparing the DSL rollout, Farajian told The Daily Star. In September, the ministry lowered monthly fees for connecting to the Internet. Users now pay LL750 ($.50 ) per hour if they connect for one hour to 15 hours per month, or LL500 per hour if they connect for 16 hours to 300 hours. Users had paid a flat fee of LL19,000 for connecting one hour to 25 hours per month or LL38,000 for 26 hours to 55 hours per month, he said.
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www.dailystar.com.lbLower prices - which should accompany the DSL rollout - make using an illegal connection less attractive for users, he said.
"The incentive for what they are doing will decline ... The best way to fight is policy."
Until now, however, the ministry has tried but failed to reduce the number of pirates, said Terranet's Hage.
"The ministry is trying hard, [but] it has not done its job," she said. The ministry did not respond to several interview requests from The Daily Star.
ISPs want the ministry to make more bandwidth available, Hage said. More bandwidth could also push prices down for end-users and cut into the pirates' business.
"Why should we fight them if we don't have enough bandwidth?" she asked. "All ISPs have this problem. The answer to all this is more bandwidth."
Hage said she does not know why the ministry is not buying more bandwidth abroad.
High-speed DSL service would make much more bandwidth available to Lebanese Internet users - and it also could kill the pirates' business, legal and illegal ISPs agreed.
"I will lose all my customers to Cyberia or Terranet," said an illegal provider from Beirut.
Still, two pirate providers told The Daily Star they want to do business legitimately, if only the ministry would make bandwidth available to them and let them compete in the market.
Hage said she is willing to work with today's pirates, and expressed admiration for the number of users the pirates had connected to the Internet, adding: "I don't blame these people ... They saw an opportunity and they took advantage
illegal cable's function is easy, the guy gets it from the isp, the isp gets it from another country, and the isp puts a speed limit for each customer though a cable connected from his machines to ur PC, and u sharing the bandwidth 2!