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Lebanese telecom workers protest Israeli assault on #Gaza
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/lebanese-telecom-workers-protest-israeli-assault-gaza

Dozens of employees of #Lebanon’s state-owned telecommunications company protested in support of Gaza outside their Beirut headquarters Tuesday. Employees of #MTC_Touch held pictures showing the devastation in Gaza caused by #Israel’s relentless assault launched two weeks ago, ending with a moment of silence “in mourning of the lives of the children killed,” according to a statement issued by the participants. “This was an initiative made by MTC employees,” IT specialist Majed Abdel Jawad told Al-Akhbar, noting that the protest was not officially sanctioned by the company. read more

#Lebanon’s Communications : A One-Man Bottleneck
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/lebanon%E2%80%99s-communications-one-man-bottleneck

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A technician installs a 3G base station at the rooftop of Lebanese mobile operator MTC Touch in Beirut September 30, 2011. On October 1, 2011. (Photo: Reuters- Jamal Saidi). A technician installs a 3G base station at the rooftop of Lebanese mobile operator MTC Touch in Beirut September 30, 2011. On October 1, 2011. (Photo: Reuters- Jamal Saidi).

For three months, the installation of fiber-optic cables in North Lebanon has been suspended. Elsewhere in the country, other important communications maintenance work is experiencing delays. The reason? A communications ministry official with conflicting interests has overstepped his boundaries, insisting that all maintenance work must go through him – and #OGERO. (...)

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Attention : c’était déjà franchement n’importe quoi, mais là… : la grotte de Jeita pourrait être exclue de l’élection des « 7 nouvelles merveilles du monde » pour… tricherie. (Et vive le Liban !)

MTC Touch supports Lebanon’s Jeita Grotto as world natural wonder
►http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2201603&Language=en

Lebanese mobile provider, MTC Touch, a branch of the Kuwait-based Zain Group, said it would be donating 100,000 sms messages (worth USD 10,000) to a voting campaign aimed at making Lebanon’s Jeita Grotto one of the world’s seven wonders of nature.

Lebanon’s Jeita Grotto, a compound of crystallized caves located 20km north of Beirut in the Valley of Al-Kalb river, is one of 28 global natural wonders nominated by international website, New7Wonders.

Sauf que :

MTC touch warned for violating New Seven Wonder competition rules
►http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2011/Nov-10/153659-mtc-touch-warned-for-violating-new-seven-wonder-competition-rul

MTC Touch received a warning from the organizers of the New Seven Wonders competition for violating competition laws over its donation of 100,000 votes for Lebanon’s Jeita Grotto. 

Nabil Haddad, the general manager at Jeita, told LBC Thursday that MTC’s stunt was illegal, but said that the situation is being resolved to prevent the organizers from denying Jeita the right to remain in the race.