Lebanon has been actively pursuing a policy of infrastructure reconstruction, especially of its telecommunications systems.The Lebanese PTT has recently:
- replaced analogue equipment by state of the art digital technology
- upgraded the national transmission network with new copper cables, fibre-optic cables and microwave systems
- upgraded the international transmission network through new earth stations and fibre optic cables
- migrated the existing signalling network based on R2 and CS for international networks to CCS7
- implemented a GSM cellular network
The new telecom infrastructure is now able to handle up to
1.5 million potential subscribers.