By SubTel Forum

Despite being seen as a pioneer of Arab business, Lebanon has the slowest and most expensive Internet in the Middle East, and by many accounts, the world. According to Kipp Report, Lebanon has proclaimed a faster and cheaper Internet connection since Saturday, aimed at improving a service currently ranked the worst in the Middle East.  Lebanon has long had the physical capacity to supply cheap, high-speed Internet to the country and in December 2010 a 13,000km IMEWE (India- Middle East- Western Europe) submarine fiber optic cable, which linked Lebanon as far east to India and west to France, became operational.

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