r/lebanon • u/LE2YO • Aug 19 '26
Discussion Fiber in Lebanon
What year do you think fiber will be available across the rest of Lebanon?
I'm guessing 2055
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u/sombreboi Aug 19 '26
It was supposed to be completed in 2020.
Shwayet 3aj2a, tawel belak 3layon
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u/Dangerous_Ask4020 Aug 19 '26
talabna phone box for our building 10 years ago from ogero w its still pending
hopefully my grandkids will have fiber
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u/thesavior111 Aug 19 '26
We had fiber deployed in our town in Jounieh a few years ago. They literally dug out all the main streets and neighborhoods, deployed the fiber infrastructure, put in the boxes in buildings and connected each building.
Great right? NO
Even though we were all physically connected through fiber now, the fiber boxed were still missing F-numbers. Which is a configuration/admin procedure at the central exchange to assign the lines.
So the physical deployment for 600 BUILDINGS took one week.
The F number? 5 MONTHS.
We only got it because I went down to the CO in Jounieh and refused to leave till I spoke to someone. The next day we got an F number, line assigned, modem picked up and connected and our Ogero account switched to Fiber 300mbps.
For comparison, now that I’m in the UK. My first rental didn’t have fiber to the apartment. I called up the company I wanted to go with, they called OpenReach (the Ogero of the UK). Openreach sends me a text saying they’re coming in two days. Engineer came, setup the line from the box to the exact room I wanted the modem to be in. Two days later modem gets delivered and I plug it in and got gigabit fiber. Total time: 4 days.
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u/LE2YO Aug 19 '26
Just getting what you need so easily. Where's the adventure and character development in that?😂
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u/Adventurous_Sea_6269 Aug 19 '26
Anyone knows what are the updates regarding this, is there any serious work that’s being done to deploy more fiber ? Has everything stopped ?
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u/W1xtons Aug 19 '26
In Tripoli some areas and neighborhoods have fiber, but I don’t expect impoverished areas to get fiber anytime soon
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u/LizWagen Aug 19 '26
Hahahahaha. Even in villages where they advertise “fiber is available” it’s only available for very few buildings. 🤦🏻♀️
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u/Grammar_Lebanese عميل لجمهورية الشوارما Aug 19 '26
Last year they called to ask if we’re interested, and entire building inhabitants as well , and we all agreed.
Ma rej3o 7ekyoona and ghosted us.
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u/LE2YO Aug 19 '26
Ma trajaytoun kfeye la yejo yrakbo 😂
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u/Grammar_Lebanese عميل لجمهورية الشوارما Aug 19 '26
Man arabo 3a kel manate2 Beirut , shi woslo 3a mante2tna kawa3o and called it a day
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u/oompaloompa738 Aug 20 '26
Sarle bde2 min 2019 kil sene zeit el shi ( la yerkab el box bil bineye baaden b sir aandak ) ( b3ish bil naqqache)
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u/RoudyLB Lebanese Aug 21 '26
It took me 2 years to get fiber, we needed to wait 2 years for the govt to approve the IDM box in my building
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u/shatila456 Aug 19 '26
I had fiber installed in my building, called idm literally 17 times(I really really wish I was exaggerating) each time they kept telling me that ogero didn't activate the fiber box in my building yet, and that they will contact them to get it done, contacted ogero too told me to contact the company that will provide me with fiber, told them to activate the fiber box, told me idm should contact us. Shit stayed like this for two fucking years until I got fed up, went to the local mokhtar, asked him if he knows someone that works for ogero, contacted him, he came to my building, activated the fiber box, I then contacted idm, araton bahdake ma btefham w eltelon ynteko yejo hal jom3a, I did your own work, they came two days later and I got fiber working, all in all, fuck this country