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  • Lebanese Internet : Rotting on the Vine
    http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/lebanese-internet-rotting-vine

    Ogero’s Director-General Abdel-Moneim Youssef is at it again, doing all that he can to undermine the current government – this time, by withholding bandwidth capacity from Lebanon’s two mobile phone companies.

    Is it a political decision? A pattern of behavior? Or simply a form of bullying?

    Perhaps it’s all three. For at the management of Ogero – the main operational arm of the ministry of telecommunications – every imaginable form of obstruction of public services in this sector is being practiced.

    Now, the latest exploits of Ogero’s management involve withholding international bandwidth capacities required for Internet access from the two mobile phone service providers in order to force them into purchasing additional bandwidth from the market, resulting in lost revenues for the public treasury.

    Si tu veux faire de l’internet pendant tes vacances au Liban, tu ferais bien d’acheter des pigeons voyageurs.

    • tu penses au RFC 1149 ?

      RFC 1149, written par David Waitzman as an April fool in 1990, describes how avian carriers can be use as the underlying network for Internet (instead of an Ethernet cable for example). Even if this RFC is a joke, it can theoritically be used. And you may even see the first implementation of RFC1149 made by a group of hackers.

      http://www.rfc1149.net/rfc1149.html

  • Internet in Lebanon: Obstruction at the Highest Level (très intéressant)
    http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/internet-lebanon-obstruction-highest-level

    The bad news is that the implementation of this process depends on the willingness of Ogero Telecom chief Abdel-Moneim Youssef – who is the chairman of the board of directors and general manager of the state company in addition to being the director of investments and maintenance at the telecommunications ministry – to go along with the plan.

    Youssef’s position does not come as a surprise. In the past several years, internet subscribers (and telecom users in general) have become familiar with his strange dealings. He has extraordinary power over the sector, holding multiple official government positions at once.