AME Info, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, telecommunications briefs 

AME Info, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, telecommunications briefs

Nov 06, 2012 (Menafn - AME Info - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) --LEBANON'S FIBRE-OPTIC NETWORK TO BE COMPLETED IN APRIL 2013: Lebanese telecoms minister, Nicolas Sehnaoui, has announced linking telecoms switchboards to a fibre-optics network is to be completed in April 2013, The Daily Star has reported. "The Lebanese would feel a qualitative shift in [internet connections] speed," Sehnaoui said. In 2011, Swedish telecoms equipment maker Ericsson won a 6.3m first phase bid to set up Lebanon's Optical Transport Network.

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