Beirut braces for year-long upgrade

Lebanon's telecoms regulator says that the country's two state-owned mobile phone networks can be fully repaired in less than 12 months after they are privatised in February 2008. "These are networks that require investment," says Kamal Shehadi, head of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) "But I think it will take less than one year."



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