Fast internet or false promises?

byHabib Battah
Aug 15, 2011

Having held the title of world’s slowest internet for years, Lebanese officials are now brimming with excitement and promising everything will be better in “coming weeks”. For a closer look at what’s being offered (and a reality check) see my latest piece in the Daily Star here.

(Chart above from Akamai shows Lebanon currently leads the world with most 256kbs connections at 60 percent of the population. That’s a step up from dial-up)

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Habib Battah

Habib Battah is an investigative journalist and founder of the news site beirutreport.com. Battah has covered Lebanon and the Middle East for over 15 years and teaches journalism and media studies at the American University of Beirut. He is a contributor to Monocle, The Guardian, BBC World, Al Jazeera and others, a former fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University and two-time recipient of the Samir Kassir Press Freedom Award. Battah's investigative work was recently recognized for outstanding local reporting by the Columbia University Oakes Award for Environmental Reporting. Battah earned a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.A. in Near East Studies and Journalism from New York University.