Astounding hypocrisy from our Minister of Communications: (Emphasis mine)
Speaking at a news conference at the Telecommunication Ministry, Nahhas said that turning Lebanon’s telecom sector into a mere source of tax income had caused prices to rise and the network capacity to narrow, leaving the country lagging behind most others in terms of IT and technology.
Remember, this is the same man who, only a few weeks ago banned Skype because it’s “depriving the Ministry of needed income”. Still, if he carried through with his promise and Lebanon ends up having fast and cheap internet, I will be thrilled and will consider him atoned.
Update: I knew it! There’s a catch.
Hello, my name is Mustapha and I've been blogging about Lebanese society, business and politics since February 2005.
banning skype was an ogero move, not an MoT per se, afaik.
If it were MoT policy to enforce the law, skype would be banned by all ISPs, which is not the case
Anon,
If you follow my link to the daily star story, you’ll see that it’s a MoT spokesperson that was defending the banning of Skype for businesses.
Besides, considering many ISPs in Lebanon are using illegal connections, I sincerely doubt the capacity of the government to enforce a blanket Skype ban